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E-grāmata: Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture [Taylor & Francis e-book]

(University of Liverpool, UK)
  • Formāts: 298 pages, 2 Line drawings, color; 38 Line drawings, black and white; 108 Halftones, color; 52 Halftones, black and white; 110 Illustrations, color; 90 Illustrations, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 20-Jan-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003244943
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  • Formāts: 298 pages, 2 Line drawings, color; 38 Line drawings, black and white; 108 Halftones, color; 52 Halftones, black and white; 110 Illustrations, color; 90 Illustrations, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 20-Jan-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003244943
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***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***

Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins those philosophical ideas that lay behind modernism and its aftermath. By analyzing in straightforward and jargon-free language the genesis of modernism and the complex reactions to it, the book clarifies a continuing debate. It has been specifically written to connect issues of theory, history and contemporary practice and to allow students to make these connections easily.

This is a history of twentieth-century architecture, written with close critical attention to the theories that lie behind the works described. Importantly, unlike other historical accounts, it does not take sides and urge the reader to identify with one strand of thinking or style of architecture at the expense of others, but it presents a dispassionate view, with persuasive arguments on behalf of different positions. It pursues the history of European and American architecture chronologically, but the history is interwoven with the philosophical ideas that informed both writers and architects and are essential for its understanding.

The book is relevant to current issues of contemporary practice and education, showing that philosophical issues are fundamental and those relating to design decisions never go away. It includes 200 illustrations and will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century architecture and to architectural students.
Introduction 1(5)
1 A philosophical framework
6(20)
Introduction
6(1)
1.1 Logic
7(2)
1.2 Epistemology
9(1)
1.3 Ethics
10(1)
1.4 Aesthetics
11(3)
1.5 Metaphysics
14(2)
1.6 Three broad metaphysical distinctions: Idealism
16(2)
1.7 Three broad metaphysical distinctions: Scepticism or nominalism
18(2)
1.8 Three broad metaphysical distinctions: Pragmatism
20(2)
1.9 The Enlightenment split
22(2)
1.10 Implications for architectural education and practice
24(2)
2 Origins of modernism - the European picture
26(29)
2.1 Mechanization
26(5)
2.2 The problem of the city
31(4)
2.3 The cultural issue of a modern style
35(4)
2.4 Respect for the past
39(3)
2.5 Moral criteria
42(3)
2.6 Art Nouveau as the first manifestation of modernism
45(6)
2.7 Aesthetics, ethics and politics: some broader questions
51(4)
3 Fin-de-siecle Vienna as a paradigm of modernism
55(24)
3.1 Historical and cultural background
55(2)
3.2 Sitte and Wagner - two views of the city
57(3)
3.3 Politics and philosophical thinking
60(1)
3.4 Literature and psychology
61(1)
3.5 Music
62(1)
3.6 Furniture and painting
63(1)
3.7 Architecture - Wagner and Loos
64(13)
3.8 Relevance
77(2)
4 The modernist canon: The Bauhaus, Le Corbusier and CIAM
79(31)
4.1 Gropius and the Bauhaus
79(2)
4.2 Gropius' later career
81(4)
4.3 Le Corbusier
85(1)
4.4 The inherited problem of the city
86(1)
4.5 CIAM's solution to the problems of the city
87(5)
4.6 Functional and formal disciplines
92(6)
4.7 A first critique: decorated diagrams
98(3)
4.8 The campus as a CIAM city
101(4)
4.9 Philosophy and politics: the Bauhaus in its German context
105(2)
4.10 Conflicted positions in Le Corbusier
107(3)
5 Positive scepticism - Alvar Aalto as an alternative modernist
110(24)
Introduction
110(1)
5.1 The Finnish context
111(1)
5.2 Neo-classical beginnings
112(2)
5.3 Paimio, Villa Mairea and Aalto's own house
114(6)
5.4 Baker House, some of the post-war brick buildings and Finlandia Hall
120(6)
5.5 Some underlying themes
126(2)
5.6 The philosophical nature of Aalto's scepticism
128(6)
6 Ideals and their representation: Louis Kahn
134(24)
Introduction
134(1)
6.1 Education and early work
134(1)
6.2 Yale Art Gallery extension and Trenton Community Center
135(5)
6.3 Richards Research Laboratory
140(1)
6.4 Rochester Unitarian Church
141(3)
6.5 Salk laboratories
144(1)
6.6 Philips Exeter Academy
145(1)
6.7 The Kimbell Museum and Mellon Gallery for British Art
145(9)
6.8 Kahn's primary concerns, strengths and weaknesses
154(4)
7 Humanizing modernism - Team Ten and the Dutch
158(22)
Introduction
158(1)
7.1 Say leaf, say tree
158(3)
7.2 Ralph Erskine - a Sweden-based member of Team Ten
161(4)
7.3 British contributors to Team Ten
165(1)
7.4 Aldo van Eyck
166(5)
7.5 Herman Hertzberger
171(4)
7.6 The architectural contribution of Team Ten
175(3)
7.7 The philosophical context of the Team Ten critique
178(2)
8 Postmodernism: Irony and inclusiveness
180(23)
Introduction
180(1)
8.1 Venturis critique
181(2)
8.2 Mothers House and a Lutyens precedent
183(6)
8.3 Ducks and decorated sheds
189(3)
8.4 Irony as the only truthful response to twentieth-century conditions
192(2)
8.5 Michael Graves and a referential architecture
194(9)
9 The typological critique
203(28)
Introduction
203(1)
9.1 No describable public space
203(3)
9.2 Un-nameable objects
206(2)
9.3 Absence of hierarchy
208(2)
9.4 Architectural typology
210(3)
9.5 The argument for typology in the twentieth century
213(2)
9.6 Aldo Rossi
215(4)
9.7 The slide into historical pastiche
219(5)
9.8 A Kantian apologist for the continuing relevance of the classical language and pragmatic responses
224(4)
9.9 Legacy
228(3)
10 Conflicting existential ideals
231(22)
Introduction
231(1)
10.1 Some consequences of the destruction of a post-Kantian world-view
232(3)
10.2 Embracing the conditions of a changed world: Rem Koolhaas
235(4)
10.3 Embracing the conditions of a changed world: Bernard Tschumi
239(3)
10.4 Resisting the conditions of a changed world: a phenomenological critique
242(3)
10.5 Architectural interpretations of a phenomenological position
245(6)
10.6 Understanding history from a phenomenological perspective
251(2)
11 Conclusions - twenty-first century hindsight
253(18)
11.1 Twentieth-century post-Enlightenment thinking
253(4)
11.2 Critical perspectives from the twenty-first century: racial inclusivity
257(2)
11.3 Critical perspectives from the twenty-first century: gender inclusivity
259(1)
11.4 Critical perspectives from the twenty-first century: sustainability
260(1)
11.5 Implications in the search for a language of form
261(2)
11.6 Some architects and writers on architecture who accept its contingent nature
263(2)
11.7 Further implications for architectural education
265(4)
11.8 A Humean position
269(2)
Acknowledgements 271(2)
Select bibliography 273(12)
List of plates and credits 285(4)
Index 289
Nicholas Ray, currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool, practised and taught at Cambridge for more than 40 years, where he is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College. Previous publications include monographs on Alvar Aalto and Rafael Moneo and co-authored books and articles with Christian Illies, a German philosopher.
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