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020 _a9781138690806
082 _a724.6
_bMEH
100 _aMehta, Jaimini
_921874
245 _aCritiquing the modern in architecture
260 _aNew York
_bRoutledge
_c2018
300 _axviii,160p.
505 _aCONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Architecture Part One: Rethinking modernity 1. Towards a Purposeful Disequilibrium 2. A Fool’s Paradise: A Critical Evaluation of the Sources of Post-Modern Architecture 3. Interrogative Scholarship: Theorizing the Agenda for Post-Rational Architecture 4. Contingent Criticality Part Two: The Idea of Architecture 5. Architecture and the Idea of Agreement 6. The Space of Mr. Giedion 7. Architecture as Co-Making 8. Vaastu and the Enfolding Order Part Three: On Praxis 9. Le Corbusier: Polemical, Poetical and Existential 10. Analogues of Architecture 11. Romaldo Giurgola: The Reluctant Master 12. The Vienna Spring Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
600 _940549
890 _aUSA
891 _aGeneral
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999 _c47022
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