Adopting and adapting historical forms is an integral part of
architectural design today. Strictly rejected by some and embraced
by others, this practice has provoked controversy since the
beginning of modernism. With its assertion of continuity and claim
to universality, historicizing architecture from the twentieth
century is decidedly antimodernistic—a counterproject to
modernistic architecture and yet also a part of modern times. The
diversity of historicizing approaches and the history of
historicizing construction have received little attention so
far—a fact that is especially evident with a comparative view
that looks beyond Germany to other countries and their building
traditions. This volume aims to take historicizing architecture
seriously as an architectural reality and one possible variation of
contemporary building, with a focus on describing and categorizing
its diverse concepts and manifestations. In considering
historicizing architecture as a contemporary phenomenon, the book
places its topic in the context of reconstructions and postmodern
ideas while also comparing it with nineteenth-century historicism.
This view includes also designs inspired by the classic modernism
of the 1920s.
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