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