Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism

(Part of the Writing Architecture Series)

by Anthony Vidler

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How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism--Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri--advanced specific versions of modernism.

Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began to assess the legacy of the avant-gardes...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262720515

ISBN13:9780262720519

Release Date:June 2008

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:239 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Architecture History Humanities Reference

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Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism

(Part of the Writing Architecture Series)

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