Main entry:

Tournikiotis, Panayotis, 1955-

Title & Author:

The historiography of modern architecture / Panayotis Tournikiotis.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.

Description:

xi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. The Art Historians and the Founding Genealogies of Modern Architecture -- Ch. 2. The Critical Resurgence of Modern Architecture -- Ch. 3. The Social Confirmation of Modern Architecture -- Ch. 4. The Objectification of Modern Architecture -- Ch. 5. History in Search of Time Present -- Ch. 6. Architecture, Time Past, and Time Future -- Ch. 7. History as the Critique of Architecture -- Ch. 8. Modern Architecture and the Writing of Histories.

Summary:

"Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure."--BOOK JACKET. "Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262201178 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262201179 (hc. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Historiography.
Architecture 20e siècle Historiographie.
Architecture, Modern Historiography.
Architectuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Geschiedschrijving.

Added entries:

McWethy, Jim, book designer, bookjacet designer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201602
Call No.: NA44.T728.A35 1999
Status: Available