Critiquing the Modern in Architecture

List of contents

Acknowledgements, Introduction: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Architecture Part One: Rethinking modernity 1. Towards a Purposeful Disequilibrium 2. A Fool’s Paradise: A Critical Evaluation of the Sources of Post-Modern Architecture 3. Interrogative Scholarship: Theorizing the Agenda for Post-Rational Architecture 4. Contingent Criticality Part Two: The Idea of Architecture 5. Architecture and the Idea of Agreement 6. The Space of Mr. Giedion 7. Architecture as Co-Making 8. Vaastu and the Enfolding Order Part Three: On Praxis 9. Le Corbusier: Polemical, Poetical and Existential 10. Analogues of Architecture 11. Romaldo Giurgola: The Reluctant Master 12. The Vienna Spring Bibliography, Illustration Credits, Index

About the author

Jaimini Mehta

Summary

This book is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture.

Product details

• Authors: Jaimini Mehta, Jaimini (Studio Jaimini Mehta Mehta, Mehta Jaimini
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138690790
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69079-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Cultural Studies, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, India, History of Architecture, Theory of architecture