TY - GEN AU - Heynen, Hilde TI - Architecture and modernity : a critique SN - 9780262581899 U1 - 724.6 PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - MIT Press N1 - Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction 2 1. Architecture Facing Modernity Concepts of Modernity 8 Dwelling fades into the Distance 14 The Dilemmas of Architecture 18 2. Constructing the Modern Movement An Architectural Avant-Garde? 26 Sigfried Giedion : A Programmatic View of Modernity New Experiences and a New Outlook 29 Space. Time and Architecture· The Canon of Modern Atch1tectu1e from Avant-Garde to canonization Das Neue Frankfurt. The Search for a Unified Culture Ideas and Intentions 43 The Dialectics between an Avant-Garde and a City Das Neue Frankfurt as Avant-Garde Reflections in a Mirror The Experience of Rupture 72 Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Trad,t100 75 Dwelling. Culture. and Modernity An Architecture of Differences Discontinuous Continuity Walter Beniamin The Dream of a Classless Society 95 Mimesis and Experience To Brush History against the Grain Architecture or the Physiognomy of an Era Dwelling. Transparency, Exteriority Architecture, Modernity, and Dwelling Building on Hollow Space· Ernst Bloch's Criticism of Modern Architecture 118 Heimat as a Utopian Category Washable Walls and Houses like Ships Modernism as a Breaking Point w1th1n the Capitalist System The Venice School or the Diagnosis of Negative Thought Architecture and Utopia The Metropolis and Negative Thought Dwelling and the “Places" of Modernity History as Critique of Ideology Architecture as Critique of Modernity Avant-Garde versus Modernism 148 New Babylon: The Antinomies of Utopia 151 Unitary Urbanism and the Critique of Functionalism New Babylon: The Antithesis of the Society of Lies The Tragedy of Utopia No Way Out: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory 174 Constellating the Nonidentical Modernity as the Unfolding of the Dialectic of Enlightenment Mimesis and Negativity The Dual Character of Art 192 Mimesis in Architecture 192 Mimesis in Contemporary Theory The Issue of Critique Between the Lines A Tower of Babel Afterword: Dwelling, Mimesis, Culture 220 Notes 226 Index 260 ER -