Histories of the Immediate Present : Inventing Architectural Modernism

作者：AnthonyVidler

出版社：TheMITPress

副标题：InventingArchitecturalModernism

出版年：2008-4-18

页数：264

定价：USD27.95

装帧：Paperback

丛书：WritingArchitecture

ISBN：9780262720519

内容简介
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Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began to assess the legacy of the avant-gardes in order to construct a coherent narrative of modernism's development, they were inevitably influenced by contemporary concerns. In Histories of the Immediate Present, Anthony Vidler examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific versions of modernism advanced by their historical narratives. Vidler shows that the modernism conceived by Kaufmann was, like the late Enlightenment projects he revered, one of pure, geometrical forms and elemental composition; that of Rowe saw mannerist ambiguity and complexity in contemporary design; Banham's modernism took its cue from the aspirations of the futurists; and the "Renaissance modernism" of Tafuri found its source in the division between the technical experimentation of Brunelleschi and the cultural nostalgia of Alberti. Vidler's investigation demonstrates the inevitable collusion between history and design that pervades all modern architectural discourse–and has given rise to some of the most interesting architectual experiments of the postwar period. Anthony Vidler is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York. He is the author of Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000), The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1992), both published by The MIT Press, and other books.

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在2014年的时候，打印出来，一句句的读，让我对建筑史论产生的兴趣过渡到景观史论上，不知道是偶然还是必然，大概也是缘分吧。

大家觉得Vidler的文笔如何？我觉得很dry哎。。。

理论家写理论家～

推倒的是作为“风格”的历史，树立起来的则是作为“技术进步”的历史和作为“视觉感知、空间体悟以及抽象构成”的历史，有意思。

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