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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457631003321

Autore

Hooghe Alexander d' <1973->

Titolo

The liberal monument [[electronic resource] ] : urban design and the late modern project / / Alexander D'Hooghe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Princeton Architectural Press

Rotterdam, : Berlage Institute, c2010

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (112 p.)

Disciplina

307.1/216

Soggetti

City planning - Political aspects

Architecture and society - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The liberal monument -- Group -- Protagonists -- Urban design -- Centers of resistance -- Liberalism as formalism -- Not program but flow between programs -- Sprawl -- The core -- Sert's core -- Polynuclearity -- Organizing distances -- A formal template for the core -- Empty space -- Platform -- Shattering and regrouping -- Maki's "master form" -- Moving beyond the totalizing ambitions of urban planning design --The "not yet" form -- Liberalism -- A romantic conception of the public -- Romantic pluralism -- Empathy -- Acropolis -- Aesthetic theory of the monument -- Symbolic form in architecture -- Giedion's symbolic forms -- Sert's symbolic forms -- Louis Kahn's symbolic forms -- A liberal monument for the new American century? -- The conversation (that never took place).