Time for architecture : on modernity, memory and time in architecture and urban design / by Robert Adam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adam, Robert, 1948- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--21st century.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture and society--History--21st century.

Architecture and society.

Time.

City planning.

Collective memory and city planning.

Symbolism in city planning.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

I Timeless p. 6

1 Timeless Architecture p. 6

2 Timelessness in Anthropology and Religion p. 10

3 Timeless Architecture and Religion p. 14

4 Proportion and Religion p. 16

5 Proportion and Metaphysics in Architecture p. 19

6 The Golden Section p. 24

7 Tradition and the Integration of Time p. 32

8 Modernism and the Science of Timelessness p. 35

9 Presentism and Modernity p. 41

10 From Timeless to Time p. 44

II Recognising Time p. 50

1 Time, Space and Architecture p. 50

2 Cosmology, Physics and Time p. 54

3 Time and Experience p. 58

4 Perceiving Time p. 61

5 Perceiving Now p. 64

6 Now and the Future p. 71

7 Architecture and the Future p. 73

8 Anticipation and Surprise p. 79

9 Architecture, Science Fiction and the Future p. 84

10 The Future becomes the Past p. 89

III How Things Change p. 97

1 Everything Changes p. 97

2 How Time Changes p. 99

3 Change, Economics and Innovation p. 102

4 Architecture and Innovation p. 105

5 Post-Modernism, a Case Study in Change p. 108

The Rise and Fall of the Style p. 108

The Post-Modem Rise and Fall in Context p. 111

6 Variable Rates of Change and their Consequences p. 115

7 M. R. G. Conzen and Variable Urban Change p. 122

8 Urban Change and Architecture p. 129

9 The Importance of Building Life p. 130

10 Variation in Building Life and Sustainability p. 134

11 From Change to Modernity p. 143

IV Modernity p. 148

1 The Significance of Modernity in Contemporary Architecture p. 148

2 The Nature of Modernity p. 151

3 The History of Modernity p. 156

Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance p. 156

The Enlightenment p. 157

Politics, Science and the Arts in the Nineteenth Century p. 160

The Twentieth Century p. 166

4 Meanings of Modernity p. 167

Simple Modernity p. 167

Ordinary Modernity p. 170

Modernism p. 173

Modernism and the Past p. 178

Predictive and Future Modernity p. 182

Modernity as the Past p. 188

The Lexicology of Modernity p. 192

5 Positive and Negative Perceptions of Modernity p. 193

Positive p. 195

Negative p. 195

Perceptions of Different Modernities p. 199

6 The Geography of Modernity p. 200

7 Understanding Modernity p. 206

V Memory p. 218

1 Memory is All We Have p. 218

2 Architecture and Memory p. 219

3 Architecture as the Memory of Others p. 226

4 Modernism, Forgetting and Remembering: Post-War Germany, a Case Study p. 230

5 Selective Remembering, History and Building Preservation p. 234

6 Destroying Buildings as Culture p. 236

7 The Significance of Destruction and Reconstruction p. 241

8 Memory and History p. 247

9 Reconstruction and Authenticity p. 248

10 Memory and Authenticity p. 250

10 The Fallibility of History p. 254

11 Heritage and Community p. 255

12 Community and Collective Memory p. 261

13 The Paradox of Tradition and Modernity p. 269

14 Tradition and Custom p. 271

15 Case Studies of Tradition and Culture p. 275

Archaeology p. 275

Primatology p. 278

The Cultural Memory of the Group p. 282

16 Dual Inheritance Theory p. 282

17 Tradition and Group Identity p. 286

18 Reconsidering Enlightenment Attitudes to Tradition p. 294

19 Tradition in a Modern Context p. 296

20 Whose Tradition? Tradition in Architecture and Urban Design p. 314.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9781527547513

1527547515

Publisher Number:

99987637341

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.