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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822762003321

Autore

Vidler Anthony

Titolo

Histories of the immediate present : inventing architectural modernism / / Anthony Vidler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

0-262-26124-3

1-282-09961-2

9786612099618

0-262-28816-8

1-4356-4331-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 239 p. : ill

Collana

Writing architecture series

Disciplina

724/.6

Soggetti

Modern movement (Architecture)

Architecture - Historiography

Architectural criticism - Europe - History - 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Neoclassical Modernism -- 2 Mannerist Modernism -- 3 Futurist Modernism -- 4 Renaissance Modernism -- 5 Postmodern or Posthistoirre? -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism-Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri-advanced specific versions of modernism.