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The historiography of modern architecture

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"Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure." "Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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720 TOU h

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Cambridge, Mass. : : MIT Press,., 1999.

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1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780262285100

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720

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Architecture, Modern

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Panayotis Tournikiotis.

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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3527.001.0001

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