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Towards a dialogic history of modern architecture : essays on otherness and canon / Jorge Francisco Liernur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liernur, Jorge Francisco, author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Modern--Historiography.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Canon (Art).
- Other (Philosophy).
- Architecture and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Biography/History:
- Jorge Francisco Liernur, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina,in 1946, is an architect. Hegraduated from the University of Buenos Aires andpursued postgraduate studies with Manfredo Tafuri at Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and Tilmann Buddensieg at the University of Bonn's Institute of Art History. Liernur holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad del Litoral (Argentina). He was the founding dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Studies at Torcuato Di Tella University, where he is currently an emeritus professor and the director of the Master's in History and Criticism of Architecture. Liernur has extensively published on the history of architecture in Argentina and Latin America, exploring their connections with international architecture in books and specialized journals. He co-curated the exhibition "Latin America in Construction: 1955-1980" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has been a visiting professor in various universities globally, spanning America, Europe, and Asia.
- Contents:
- Otherness and canon
- Controversial positions : the center-periphery tension in the work of Manfredo Tafuri
- Orientalism and modern architecture : the debate on the flat roof
- The grand move : how the Smithsons contributed to the restauration of Western Europe's cultural centrality after WWII.
- 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 05, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Liernur, Jorge Francisco. Towards a dialogic reading of the history of modern architecture
- ISBN:
- 9781003452263
- 1003452264
- 9781040089903
- 1040089909
- 9781040089934
- 1040089933
- Publisher Number:
- 40032388285
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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