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The visibility of modernization in architecture : a debate / edited by Gevork Hartoonian.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hartoonian, Gevork, editor.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Series:
Routledge research in architecture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Architecture and society--History--20th century.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern--20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) : illustrations, map.
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Biography/History:
Gevork Hartoonian is Emeritus Professor of architectural history at the University of Canberra, Australia, and holds a Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has taught in American universities, including Pratt Institute and Columbia University, NYC. Hartoonian is most recently the author of Towards a Critique of Architecture's Contemporaneity: 4 Essays (Routledge 2023), Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture 1980 (Anthem Press 2022), and Time, History and Architecture: essays on critical historiography (Routledge 2020/2018). His previous publications include, among others, Architecture and Spectacle: a critique (Routledge, 2016/2012) and The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (2013). The Korean and Thai edition of his Ontology of Construction (Cambridge University Press, 1994) was published in 2010 and 2017.
Contents:
Time's Envelope: City/Capital/Chronotope / Harry Harootunian
Challenging Eurocentric Narratives in Architectural Historiographies: Futures Past and the Semantics of Historical Time beyond Zeitgeist / Marianna Charitonidou
We Need to Talk About Class in Architecture / Harry Margalit
Oil, Utopia, and the Architecture of the Off-Modern: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company: Planning in 1930s Iran / Rahmatollah Amirjani.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 04, 2023).
Other Format:
Print version: Visibility of modernization in architecture
ISBN:
9781003257776
1003257771
9781000907445
1000907449
9781000907452
1000907457
Publisher Number:
40031860717
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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