Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiography

ISBN-13: 9781138283510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str.

Gevork Hartoonian

Opis

Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures on architectural history – Walter Benjamin and Gottfried Semper.

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. On History 2. On Time 3. On Style 4. On Baroque 5. On Mies 6. On Autonomy 7. On Brutalism: Crisis Postponed 8. On Architecture & Capitalism: The Tale of Three Frames 9. It's Time: Historicism Revisited

O autorze

Gevork Hartoonian is professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is the author of numerous books, including Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded (Routledge, 2015). He was the 2013 and 2016 visiting professor of Architectural History at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.