Download or read book Histories of the Immediate Present written by Anthony Vidler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism—Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri—advanced specific versions of modernism. Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began to assess the legacy of the avant-gardes in order to construct a coherent narrative of modernism's development, they were inevitably influenced by contemporary concerns. In Histories of the Immediate Present, Anthony Vidler examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific versions of modernism advanced by their historical narratives. Vidler shows that the modernism conceived by Kaufmann was, like the late Enlightenment projects he revered, one of pure, geometrical forms and elemental composition; that of Rowe saw mannerist ambiguity and complexity in contemporary design; Banham's modernism took its cue from the aspirations of the futurists; and the “Renaissance modernism” of Tafuri found its source in the division between the technical experimentation of Brunelleschi and the cultural nostalgia of Alberti. Vidler's investigation demonstrates the inevitable collusion between history and design that pervades all modern architectural discourse—and has given rise to some of the most interesting architectual experiments of the postwar period.
Download or read book Architecture Liberty and Civic Order written by Carroll William Westfall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism. These include the role of imitation in earlier centuries and its potential role in present practice; the necessary relationship between architecture, urbanism and the rural districts; and their counterpart in the civil order that builds and uses what is built. The narrative traces two models for the practice of architecture. One follows the ancient model in which the architect renders his service to serve the interests of others; it survives and is dominant in modernism. The other, first formulated in the fifteenth century by Leon Battista Alberti, has the architect use his talent in coordination with others to contribute to the common good of a republican civil order that seeks to protect its own liberty and that of its citizens. Palladio practiced this way, and so did Thomas Jefferson when he founded a uniquely American architecture, the counterpart to the nation’s founding. This narrative gives particular emphasis to the contrasting developments in architecture on the opposite sides of the English Channel. The book presents the value for clients and architects today and in the future of drawing on history and tradition. It stresses the importance, indeed, the urgency, of restoring traditional practices so that we can build just, beautiful, and sustainable cities and rural districts that will once again assist citizens in living not only abundantly but also well as they pursue their happiness.
Download or read book Current History written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writting of the Walls written by Vidler and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of the ideas and buildings of the period before the French Revolution with particular reference to the roots of modern architecture. The author redefines the relationship between architecture and society during the period and looks at the reactions of contemporary architects.
Download or read book First principles of modern history 1815 1879 from the English point of view written by T S. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The History of Modern Painting written by Richard Muther and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1896 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Principles of English History written by T. S. Taylor and published by London : Relfe, Brothers. This book was released on 1877 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of England written by James Anthony Froude and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Download or read book The study of history in schools written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada by James Anthony Froude M A written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Documentary History of Unitarian Universalism Volume Two written by Dan McKanan and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panel of top scholars presents the first comprehensive collection of primary sources from Unitarian Universalist history. This critical resource covers the long histories of Unitarianism, Universalism, and Unitarian Universalism in the United States and around the world, and offers a wealth of sources from the first fifty-five years of the Unitarian Universalist Association. From Arius and Origen to Peter Morales and Rebecca Parker, this two-volume anthology features leaders, thinkers, and ordinary participants in the ever-changing tradition of liberal religion. Each volume contains more than a hundred distinct selections, with scholarly introductions by leading experts in Unitarian Universalist history. The selections include sermons, theologies, denominational statements, hymns, autobiographies, and manifestos, with special attention to class, cultural, gender, and sexual diversity. Primary sources are the building blocks of history, and A Documentary History of Unitarian Universalism presents the sources we need for understanding this denomination’s past and for shaping its future.
Download or read book The Annual Register Or A View of the History and Politics of the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. After 1815 the usual form became a number of chapters on Great Britain, paying particular attention to the proceedings of Parliament, followed by chapters covering other countries in turn, no longer limited to Europe. The expansion of the History came at the expense of the sketches, reviews and other essays so that the nineteenth-century publication ceased to have the miscellaneous character of its eighteenth-century forebear, although poems continued to be included until 1862, and a small number of official papers and other important texts continue to be reproduced.
Download or read book History of the Jews written by Heinrich Graetz and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
