Histories Of The Immediate Present
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Histories Of The Immediate Present
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Author : Anthony Vidler
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008-04-18
Histories Of The Immediate Present written by Anthony Vidler and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-18 with Architecture categories.
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 Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction.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.
Architecture Liberty And Civic Order
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Author : Carroll William Westfall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
Architecture Liberty And Civic Order written by Carroll William Westfall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Architecture categories.
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.
History Of England
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Author : James Anthony Froude
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-09-29
History Of England written by James Anthony Froude and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
History Of England From The Fall Of Wolsey To The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada By James Anthony Froude M A
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
History Of England From The Fall Of Wolsey To The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada By James Anthony Froude M A written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with categories.
The Cosmopolitan
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Cosmopolitan written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with American literature categories.
The History Of Greece By Professor Ernst Curtius
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
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Immediate Struggles
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Author : Susana Narotzky
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-07-25
Immediate Struggles written by Susana Narotzky and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-25 with Social Science categories.
This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the European Union’s "Regional Economies," takes up the difficult question of how to understand the growing alienation ordinary working people feel in the face of globalization. Combining rich oral histories with a sophisticated and nuanced structural understanding of changing political economies, the authors examine the growing divide between government and its citizens in a region that has in the last four decades been transformed from a primarily agricultural economy to a primarily industrial one. Offering a new form of ethnography appropriate for the study of suprastate polities and a globalized economy, Immediate Struggles contributes to our understanding of one region as well as the way we think about changing class relations, modes of production, and cultural practices in a newly emerging Europe. The authors also consider how phenomena such as the "informal economy" and "black market" are not marginal to the normal operation of state and economic institutions but are intertwined with both.
The Annual Register Or A View Of The History And Politics Of The Year
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1850
The Annual Register Or A View Of The History And Politics Of The Year written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1850 with Books categories.
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.
History Of The Jews
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Author : Heinrich Graetz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
History Of The Jews written by Heinrich Graetz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Jews categories.
First Principles Of Modern History 1815 1879 From The English Point Of View
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Author : T S. Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
First Principles Of Modern History 1815 1879 From The English Point Of View written by T S. Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with categories.