Architecture Re-assembled The Use (and Abuse) of History
Auteur : Garnham Trevor
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.
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
Trevor Garnham is an architect and former Principal Lecturer at Kingston University School of Architecture, UK.
Date de parution : 02-2013
17.4x24.6 cm
Date de parution : 02-2013
17.4x24.6 cm
Thème d’Architecture Re-assembled :
Mots-clés :
architectural historiography; architecture history; Fischer von Erlach; Robert Venturi; Alvar Aalto; Louis Kahn; Aldo van Eyck; Rafael Moneo; Daniel Libieskind; David Chipperfield; Young Man; Notre Dame Du Raincy; Villa Mairea; Le Corbusier; Town Hall; Giuseppe Terragni; Casa Del Fascio; RIBA Library Photograph Collection; Pendentive Dome; Vers Une Architecture; Nutzen Und Nachteil Der Historie; Chiswick House; Stockholm Exhibition; Van De Velde; Sir John Soane's Museum; De Stijl; Nordic Classicism; Primitive Hut; Untimely Meditations; Parc De La Villette; Oxford Museum