Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment

ISBN 10: 0804753431 / ISBN 13: 9780804753432

Edité par Stanford University Press, 2005

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• Titre: Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment
• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0804753431
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780804753432
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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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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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).