The historiography of modern architecture /

• Main Author: Tournikiotis, Panayotis, 1955-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.
• Subjects: 1900-1999; Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Historiography.; ARCHITECTURE > History.; Architecture, Modern > Historiography.; Architectuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap); Geschiedschrijving.; Electronic books.

"Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the q...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 The Art Historians and the Founding Genealogies of Modern Architecture 21
• Chapter 2 The Critical Resurgence of Modern Architecture 51
• Chapter 3 The Social Confirmation of Modern Architecture 85
• Chapter 4 The Objectification of Modern Architecture 113
• Chapter 5 History in Search of Time Present 145
• Chapter 6 Architecture, Time Past, and Time Future 167
• Chapter 7 History as the Critique of Architecture 193
• Chapter 8 Modern Architecture and the Writing of Histories 221.