Making it Modern
The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design
Published on 15. December 2016
256 pages
978-1-945150-27-2 (ISBN)
Description
At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying to catch what has already appeared - an attempt to fix life as it is being lived. Modernity is just the very fact that we as human beings are continually remaking the world around us through our actions, and are doing so consciously. Modernism is a monument to or memory of that act, which in its own making tries to remake the world it is pretending to represent.
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Aaron Betsky (born 1958) is a critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, who since August 2006 has been the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Betsky was named as the director of the 11th Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2008. From 1995-2001 Betsky was Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He worked as a designer for Frank Gehry and Hodgetts & Fung.
Content
- Intro
- What Modern Is
- Space Opens Up
- Staging Modernity
- A New Style of Life
- At Home in the Brave New World
- Building Like Crystals, Forms as Cold Ice
- Toward Totality
- The Human Form Endures
- Wooden Ships
- After Modernism
- Re-Modernism
- Selected readings
- Index of names
- Illustration credits
