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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.
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.
Has the project to usher in Modernity run its full course and is
now ready to be replaced by something called Post-Modern?
Re-examining the very idea of Modernity in architecture, and
drawing from a number of diverse sources such as philosophy, social
science, art and technology, Prof. Mehta argues that the normal
historical progression of archit Has the project to usher in
Modernity run its full course and is now ready to be replaced by
something called Post-Modern? Re-examining the very idea of
Modernity in architecture, and drawing from a number of diverse
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