Critiquing the Modern in Architecture

Mehta, Jaimini

ISBN 10: 1138690791 / ISBN 13: 9781138690790

Published by Routledge, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critiquing the Modern in Architecture
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138690791
• ISBN 13: 9781138690790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Written over four decades, Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism from its primarily Eurocentric definition, interrogating the subject from the perspective on a non-western thought-world. Mehta groups his essays under three key themes: "Rethinking Modernity" explores the ideological underpinnings of the modernity/modernism binary; "The Idea of Architecture" looks at a number of issues that constitute the timeless and the invariable aspects of architecture against which the prevalent modernist discourse can be critically evaluated; and "On Praxis" looks at three contemporary architects' work and the Vienna Secessionist movement between 1890 and 1918 to articulate a critique of the underpinnings of the modern movement. Providing a new view of the modern in architecture, this book is critical reading for architectural theorists and scholars of modernism.

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Jaimini Mehta