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Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity - Our Past, Our Present (Paperback)
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Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity - Our Past, Our Present (Paperback)
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Loot Price R593
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The theme of “modernity” was the launching pad for architecture
in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionising our
way of life. By causing in its development absolutisations and
misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound desire to
improve everyone’s life were reconsidered. Against the theory
that the 20th century connected the objective of modernity to that
of the Modern Movement, this book deals with the theme of a present
continuity by revealing those “open visions” that characterised
modernity at the end of the 19th century. By critically reviewing
the main stages of development over time—as well as the intense
debates of architectural historians, architects and contemporary
scholars—the thesis of modernity as tradition, research,
criticism, place of contradictions is supported. Further echoed by
that of “architecture tout court,” enhancing the present
environment in its current fragility of views—even more so today
with the appearance of a virus capable of undermining our way of
living. These are “contemporary modernisms” aimed at recovering
the essence of a recent past to project it into the present,
restoring to architecture that long-neglected role of critical
construction and formation of society in an era, ultimately defined
as “of Rembrandt beauty.”
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