Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Illustration credits......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Analysing modernity: some issues......Page 16
What modernism was: art, progress and the avant-garde......Page 36
Modernity and architecture......Page 55
Modernity and the uses of history: understanding classical architecture from BOtticher to Warburg......Page 69
Projecting modern culture: \'aesthetic fundamentalism\' and modern architecture......Page 81
Modernity and the question of representation......Page 94
\'How is it that there is no modern style of architecture?\' \'Greek\' Thomson versus Gilbert Scott......Page 116
\'A complete and universal collection\': Gottfried Semper and the Great Exhibition......Page 137
The interior as aesthetic refuge: Edmond de Goncourt\'s La maison d\'un artiste......Page 150
Timely untimeliness: architectural modernism and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk......Page 169
Le Corbusier and the restorative fragment at the Swiss Pavilion......Page 186
The concrete memory of modernity: excerpts from a Moscow diary......Page 208
Ildefonso Cerd and modernity......Page 230
\'To knock fire out of men\': forging modernity in Glasgow......Page 245
The expressionist utopia......Page 269
Walter Benjamin\'s Arcades Project: a prehistory of modernity......Page 284
Impromptus of a great city: Siegfried Kracauer\'s Strassen in Berlin und Anderswo......Page 304
Orpheus in Hollywood: Siegfried Kracauer\'s Offenbach film......Page 320
Bibliography......Page 338
Index......Page 354