Ontology of construction : on nihilism of technology in theories of modern architecture / Gevork Hartoonian.

Main entry:

Hartoonian, Gevork.

Title & Author:

Ontology of construction : on nihilism of technology in theories of modern architecture / Gevork Hartoonian.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Description:

xvii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-110) and index.
Foreword / Kenneth Frampton -- 1. Montage: Recoding the Tectonic -- 2. Architecture and the Question of Technology: Two Positions and the "Other" -- 3. Adolf Loos: The Awakening Moments of Tradition in Modern Architecture -- 4. Metier: Frank Lloyd Wright's Tradition of Dwelling -- 5. Mies van der Rohe: The Genealogy of Column and Wall -- 6. Construction of the Not Yet Construed.

Summary:

Explores theories of construction in modern architecture.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521454808 (hardback)
9780521454803 (hardback)
9780521586450
0521586453

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture Innovations.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy.
Gebouwen.
Constructies.
Nihilisme.
Architecture Modernism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 105392
Call No.: NA680.H37 (ID:94-B2195)
Status: Available

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