Time, History and Architecture

Essays on Critical Historiograpy
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-28351-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Architectural History

Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures Walter Benjamin and Gottfried Semper for architectural history. In a work exploring themes such as time, autonomy and periodization, author Gevork Hartoonian unpacks the formation of architectural history; the problem of autonomy in criticism and the historiographic narrative. Considering the scope of criticism informing the contemporaneity of architecture, the book explores the concept of nonsimultaneity, and introduces retrospective criticism the agent of critical historiography. An engaging thematic dialogue for academics and upper-level graduate students interested in architectural history and theory, this book aims to deconstruct the certainties of historicism and to raise new questions and interpretations from established critical canons.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartoonian, Gevork (University of Canberra, Australia)

Hartoonian, Gevork

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. 1. On History 2. On Time 3. On Style 4. On Baroque 5. On Mies 6. On Autonomy 7. On Brutalism: Crisis Postponed 8. On Architecture & Capitalism: The Tale of Three Frames 9. It's Time: Historicism Revisited

Über Autor(innen)

Gevork Hartoonian is professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is the author of numerous books, including Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded (Routledge, 2015). He was the 2013 and 2016 visiting professor of Architectural History at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.