VERNACULAR MODERNISM by Maiken Umbach (Editor), Bernd Huppauf (Editor) ( 9780804753432 )

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VERNACULAR MODERNISM
HEIMAT, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

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Maiken Umbach (Editor), Bernd Huppauf (Editor)

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0804753431

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 August, 2005

Pages:

280

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Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.

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Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of modernity's most paradigmatic sites-both real and imagined. They engage in a search for an idiom that mediates between place and space, the vernacular and the abstract in architecture, from its early phase and Hermann Muthesius via LeCorbusier's high modernism, to the contemporary movement of a "critical regionalism."

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