Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity: Our Past, Our Present
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity: Our Past, Our Present
By (Author) Patrizia Mello
Oro Editions
Oro Editions
26th October 2022
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Theory of architecture
Architectural structure and design
724.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
200
Width 139mm, Height 198mm
Description
The theme of modernity was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionizing our way of life.By causing in its development absolutizations and misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound desire to improve everyones life were reconsidered.
Against the theory that the 20th century connected the objective of modernity to that of the Modern Movement, this book deals with the theme of a present continuity by revealing those open visions that characterized modernity at the end of the 19th century. By critically reviewing the main stages of development over timeas well as the intense debates of architectural historians, architects, and contemporary scholarsthrough the thesis of modernity as tradition, research, and criticism, a concept of contradiction is supported. Further echoed by that of architecture tout court, enhancing the present environment in its current fragility of viewseven more so today with the appearance of a virus capable of undermining our way of living. These are contemporary modernisms aimed at recovering the essence of a recent past to project it into the present, restoring to architecture that long-neglected role of critical construction and formation of society in an era, ultimately defined as of Rembrandt beauty.
Author Bio
Patrizia Mello is interested in history, theory, and criticism of contemporary design; topics on which she carries out in teaching and researches with regard to the publication of her books, numerous essays and articles, as well as the organisation of conferences and study seminars. She currently teaches Contemporary Architecture II at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of the Ca Foscari University of Venice. Among her publications: Progetti in movimento. Philippe Starck (Firenze: Festina Lente, 1997); Lospedale ridefinito. Soluzioni e ipotesi a confronto. Aart International Aalto Colboc CSPE Fainsilber Groupe 6 Ito Koolhaas Le Corbusier Nouvel Reichen & Robert Sottsass Petre-Souchet Riboulet Vasconi Zublena (Firenze: Alinea, 2000); Metamorfosi dello spazio. Annotazioni sul divenire metropolitano (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2002); Ito digitale. Nuovi media, nuovo reale (Roma: Edilstampa, 2008); Design Contemporaneo. Mutazioni, oggetti, ambienti, architetture (Milano: Mondadori Electa, 2008); Neoavanguardie e controcultura a Firenze. Il movimento Radical e i protagonisti di un cambiamento storico internazionale (Firenze: Angelo Pontecorboli, 2017); Firenze e le avanguardie Radicali. Un seminario di ricerca (Firenze: DIDA press, 2017).
