Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Modernism
This essay looks at the chronology of the adoption of ‘modernism’. The word ‘modern’ has a long and varied genealogy. From the 16th to the late 19th century, however, it usually meant ‘contemporary’ or ‘of the present’, and its meaning varied considerably depending on the circumstances and period. Although a shift in vocabulary seems to have occurred almost unconsciously, it might be seen as indicating how the notion of modern architecture itself changed during the 20th century: from a living movement committed to specific values and aspirations to a codified style and cultural period of the past, usually the two decades between the world wars. Despite the plurality of terms for modern architecture in the 1920s and 1930s and the diversity of examples in the early surveys, the word ‘modernism’ was rare in architectural circles during this period. The use of the plural raises questions about the word ‘modernism’ itself. As this brief chronology shows, the adoption of ‘modernism’ to characterise the Modern Movement and modern architecture largely emerged in the English‐speaking world.
Modernism
This essay looks at the chronology of the adoption of ‘modernism’. The word ‘modern’ has a long and varied genealogy. From the 16th to the late 19th century, however, it usually meant ‘contemporary’ or ‘of the present’, and its meaning varied considerably depending on the circumstances and period. Although a shift in vocabulary seems to have occurred almost unconsciously, it might be seen as indicating how the notion of modern architecture itself changed during the 20th century: from a living movement committed to specific values and aspirations to a codified style and cultural period of the past, usually the two decades between the world wars. Despite the plurality of terms for modern architecture in the 1920s and 1930s and the diversity of examples in the early surveys, the word ‘modernism’ was rare in architectural circles during this period. The use of the plural raises questions about the word ‘modernism’ itself. As this brief chronology shows, the adoption of ‘modernism’ to characterise the Modern Movement and modern architecture largely emerged in the English‐speaking world.
Modernism
Borden, Iain (Herausgeber:in) / Fraser, Murray (Herausgeber:in) / Penner, Barbara (Herausgeber:in) / Mcleod, Mary (Autor:in)
Forty Ways To Think About Architecture ; 185-192
24.03.2015
8 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
URBANISM, MODERNISM AND `URBAN MODERNISM'
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
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Books - Modernism - Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism
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