Modernism and the Spirit of the City
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This collection of essays offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotous, the essays investigate the complex cultural, social and religious imperatives that lay below the smooth, white surfaces of new architecture.
This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960.…mehr

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This collection of essays offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotous, the essays investigate the complex cultural, social and religious imperatives that lay below the smooth, white surfaces of new architecture.
This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960.
Autorenporträt
Iain Boyd Whyte is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written extensively on early-modernist history and theory, with books on Bruno Taut, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, and the school of Otto Wagner. Among his current projects is an anthology of texts on the German-speaking metropolis, 1880-1940.