Architecture Re-assembled
The Use (and Abuse) of History
1st Edition
Published on 26. April 2013
240 pages
978-1-134-05299-8 (ISBN)
Description
Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day.
It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in finding well-founded principles for architectural design.
This is not simply another history of architecture, nor a 'history of histories'. Setting buildings in their contemporaneous ideas about history, it spans from Fischer von Erlach to Venturi and Rossi, and beyond to architects working in the fallout from both the Modern Movement - Aalto, Louis Kahn, Aldo van Eyck - and Post-modernism - such as Rafael Moneo and Peter Zumthor. It shows how Soane, Schinkel and Stirling, amongst others, made a meaningful use of history and contrasts this with how a misreading of Hegel has led to an abuse of history and an uncritical flight to the future. This is not an armchair history but a lively discussion of our place between past and future that promotes thinking for making.
It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in finding well-founded principles for architectural design.
This is not simply another history of architecture, nor a 'history of histories'. Setting buildings in their contemporaneous ideas about history, it spans from Fischer von Erlach to Venturi and Rossi, and beyond to architects working in the fallout from both the Modern Movement - Aalto, Louis Kahn, Aldo van Eyck - and Post-modernism - such as Rafael Moneo and Peter Zumthor. It shows how Soane, Schinkel and Stirling, amongst others, made a meaningful use of history and contrasts this with how a misreading of Hegel has led to an abuse of history and an uncritical flight to the future. This is not an armchair history but a lively discussion of our place between past and future that promotes thinking for making.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
182 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 17 s/w Zeichnungen
17 Line drawings, black and white; 182 Halftones, black and white
File size
6,65 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-05299-8 (9781134052998)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
€282.26
Shipment within 15-20 days
Book
02/2013
1st Edition
Routledge
€81.89
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
Trevor Garnham is an architect and former Principal Lecturer at Kingston University School of Architecture, UK.
Content
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
