Architecture Re-Assembled - The Use (And Abuse) of History

Informationen zum Autor Trevor Garnham is an architect and former Principal Lecturer at Kingston University School of Architecture! UK. Zusammenfassung An alternative history of architecture setting buildings in their contemporaneous ideas about history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Vico and the ‘New Science’ of History 2. After Vitruvius: The Search for a New Fundamental Ground 3. Aesthetics and Questions of Style 4. In what Style should we Build? 5. Nietzsche and the History beyond History 6. Approaches to Modernism 7. Modernism Against History 8. Le Corbusier: For or Against History? 9. Regional Resistance 10. Late Modernism and Critical Histories 11. From Post-Modernism to Meaning in Architecture Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Garnham, Garnham Trevor
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2013
• EAN: 9780415522441
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52244-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Architectural structure & design, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), The environment, History of Architecture, Theory of architecture, Architectural structure and design