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Summary
Drawing on architectural and urban history as well as philosophy and sociology, this book outlines the complex and conflicting roots of modernity by tracing its manifestations in architecture and the city.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Modernity | |
| Analysing Modernity | |
| What Moderniam was: Art, Progress and Avant-garde | |
| Modernity and Architecture | |
| Modernity and the Uses of History: Understanding Classical Architecture from Botticher to Warberg | |
| Projecting Modern Culture: 'Aesthetic Fundamentalism' and Modern Architecture | |
| Modernity and the Question of Representation | |
| Architecture | |
| 'How is it that there is no Modern Style of Architrecture?' 'Greek' Thomson versus Gilbert Scott | |
| 'A Complete and Universal Collection': Gottfried Semper and the Great Exhibition | |
| The Interior as Aesthetic Refuge: Edmond de Goncourt's La Maison d'un Artiste | |
| Timely Untimeliness? Architectural Modernism and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk | |
| Le Corbusier and the Restorative Fragment at the Swiss Pavilion | |
| The Concrete Memory of Modernity: Excerpts from a Moscow Diary | |
| The City | |
| Lidefonso Cerda and Modernity | |
| 'To Knock Fire out of Men' Forging Modernity in Glasgow | |
| The Expressionist Utopia | |
| Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project: A Prehistory of Modernity | |
| Impromptus of a Great City: Siegfried Kracauer's Strassen in Berlin Und Anderswo | |
| Orpheus in Hollywood: Sigfried Kracauer's Offenbach Film | |
| Bibliography | |
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