Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Architecture's Modernisms
This chapter is about architecture's modernisms in various cities, such as Vienna, Paris, Dessau, Rio de Janeiro and Chicago. It assumes polyvalency and polycentricity from the start but it also accepts that despite all of this multiplicity, it is as identifiable a form as neoclassicism. It is the architecture of simple, Platonic forms, the architecture of no ornament, the architecture of truth to materials, the architecture of slabs and towers and cubes. Ayn Rand's architectural novel, The Fountainhead, contains a large element of truth, depicting an outrageously phallic competition between the representatives of different architectural styles. Eurocentric histories of architecture naturally emphasize Paris and Dessau. One reason that architectural modernism was so slow to catch on after its initial appearance was the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Architectural histories of Glasgow by and large ignore the city's modernist reconstruction, or belittle it.
Architecture's Modernisms
This chapter is about architecture's modernisms in various cities, such as Vienna, Paris, Dessau, Rio de Janeiro and Chicago. It assumes polyvalency and polycentricity from the start but it also accepts that despite all of this multiplicity, it is as identifiable a form as neoclassicism. It is the architecture of simple, Platonic forms, the architecture of no ornament, the architecture of truth to materials, the architecture of slabs and towers and cubes. Ayn Rand's architectural novel, The Fountainhead, contains a large element of truth, depicting an outrageously phallic competition between the representatives of different architectural styles. Eurocentric histories of architecture naturally emphasize Paris and Dessau. One reason that architectural modernism was so slow to catch on after its initial appearance was the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Architectural histories of Glasgow by and large ignore the city's modernist reconstruction, or belittle it.
Architecture's Modernisms
Meecham, Pam (Autor:in) / Williams, Richard J. (Autor:in)
A Companion to Modern Art ; 263-281
02.01.2018
19 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Vienna , Glasgow , architectural modernism , Paris , Chicago , Dessau , Rio de Janeiro
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