Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, And the Built Environment - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804753431 ISBN 13 : 9780804753432

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of modernity's most paradigmatic sites--both real and imagined. They engage in a search for an idiom that mediates between place and space, the vernacular and the abstract in architecture, from its early phase and Hermann Muthesius via LeCorbusier's high modernism, to the contemporary movement of a "critical regionalism."

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À propos de l'auteur

Maiken Umbach teaches modern European history at the University of Manchester (UK). She is the author of Federalism and Enlightenment in Germany, 1740-1806 (2000) and German Federalism: Past, Present, Future (2002). Bernd Huppauf is Professor of German at New York University. Among his numerous publications in German and English are Globalization and the Future of German (2004), Skepsis und literarische Einbildungskraft (2003), War, Violence, and the Modern Condition (1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804753431
• ISBN 13: 9780804753432
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Umbach Maiken, Hüppauf Bernd
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