The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

A Debate
Redaktion: Hartoonian, Gevork

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000907452
• Artikelnr.: 68402233

Autorenporträt

Gevork Hartoonian is Emeritus Professor of architectural history at the University of Canberra, Australia, and holds a Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has taught in American universities, including Pratt Institute and Columbia University, NYC. Hartoonian is most recently the author of Towards a Critique of Architecture's Contemporaneity: 4 Essays (Routledge 2023), Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture 1980 (Anthem Press 2022), and Time, History and Architecture: essays on critical historiography (Routledge 2020/2018). His previous publications include, among others, Architecture and Spectacle: a critique (Routledge, 2016/2012) and The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (2013). The Korean and Thai edition of his Ontology of Construction (Cambridge University Press, 1994) was published in 2010 and 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Introduction
Gevork Hartoonian
Part I: Historico-theoretical Paths
1 Empire: Architecture and Totality
Gevork Hartoonian
2 The Architecture of Power, or the Power of Architects
Jean-Louis Cohen
3 Time's Envelope: City/Capital/Chronotope
Harry Harootunian
4 Challenging Eurocentrism in Architectural Historiographies
Marianna Charitonidou
Part II: Historico-geographic Practices
5 Second Time as Farce: Modern Architecture in Khrushchev's USSR
Ross Wolfe
6 Different Priorities: Yugoslavian and Romanian Architects In and Out
Mirjana Lozanovska and Carmen Popescu
7 The Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade: Aesthetics and Cultural
Technology
Nikolina Bobic
8 We Need to Talk about Class in Architecture
Harry Margalit
9 Disjunctions in New Zealand Architecture
Paul Walker
10 Assembling Chinese Modernism
Duanfang Lu
11 Korean Architecture, c. 2020: Group 4.3 and Four Important Trends
Hyu-Tae Jung and Junghyun Park
12 Shahyad Tower: Two Tendencies in One Ideological Symbol
Motehareh Danaeifar
13 Oil, Utopia, and the Architecture of the Off-Modern: The Anglo-Iranian
Oil Company
Planning in 1930s Iran
Rahmatollah Amirjani
Index