Architecture re-assembled : the use (and Abuse) of History

By:

Garnham, Trevor

Publication details: New York Routledge 2013Description: xii,227,ipISBN:

9780415522458

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.104 GAR

Contents:

CONTENTS Acknowledgements iv Introduction vii 1. Vico and the ‘New Science’ of History 1 2. After Vitruvius: The Search for a New Fundamental Ground 11 3. Aesthetics and Questions of Style 28 4. In what Style should we Build? 44 5. Nietzsche and the History beyond History 63 6. Approaches to Modernism 74 7. Modernism Against History 102 8. Le Corbusier: For or Against History? 118 9. Regional Resistance to the International Style 130 10. Late Modernism and Critical Histories 148 11. From Post-Modernism to Meaning in Architecture 168 Epilogue : History, Tradition, Memory 195 Illustration Credits 219 Bibliography 220 Index 223

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements iv
Introduction vii
1. Vico and the ‘New Science’ of History 1
2. After Vitruvius: The Search for a New Fundamental Ground 11
3. Aesthetics and Questions of Style 28
4. In what Style should we Build? 44
5. Nietzsche and the History beyond History 63
6. Approaches to Modernism 74
7. Modernism Against History 102
8. Le Corbusier: For or Against History? 118
9. Regional Resistance to the International Style 130
10. Late Modernism and Critical Histories 148
11. From Post-Modernism to Meaning in Architecture 168
Epilogue : History, Tradition, Memory 195
Illustration Credits 219
Bibliography 220
Index 223

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