Elliot, Brian,
Benjamin for architects / Brian Elliott - First published 2011. - 146 pages ; 23 cm. - Thinkers for Architects ; 06. . - Thinkers for Architects ; 06. .
"For Gabrielle - my guide through the labyrinth"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-144) and index (pages 145-146).
Childhood images -- Berlin -- Naples -- Moscow -- Architectural montage. 1. Metropolitanism and Method. Benjamin and surrealism -- The Arcades Project and modern architecture -- The dialectic of technology and nature -- Regressive and progressive reactions to modern technology -- Architectural modernism and the politics of form. 2. Radicalism and Revolution. Modernity and modernism -- The domestic interior as social sanctuary -- Exorcizing the accursed interior -- From individual dwelling to collective housing -- The image of the city. 3. Modernism and Memory. The politics of utopia -- The utopian dimension of the Paris arcades -- Utopia and the dialectical image -- Architecture and utopia. 4. Utopianism and Utility. The politics of participation -- Architectural modernism and participation -- The Situanist International and an urbanism of play -- A counter-monumental architecture of remembrance. 5. Participation and Politics. 6. Benjamin's Memorial.
Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy.
Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s work within more recent developments in architecture and urbanism.
This is a concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.--backover. https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-Architects-Thinkers-Brian-Elliott/dp/0415558158
9781138229292
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Architecture
Architecture--Philosophy
Authors
Painters
Authors
B3209.B584 / E45 2011
Benjamin for architects / Brian Elliott - First published 2011. - 146 pages ; 23 cm. - Thinkers for Architects ; 06. . - Thinkers for Architects ; 06. .
"For Gabrielle - my guide through the labyrinth"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-144) and index (pages 145-146).
Childhood images -- Berlin -- Naples -- Moscow -- Architectural montage. 1. Metropolitanism and Method. Benjamin and surrealism -- The Arcades Project and modern architecture -- The dialectic of technology and nature -- Regressive and progressive reactions to modern technology -- Architectural modernism and the politics of form. 2. Radicalism and Revolution. Modernity and modernism -- The domestic interior as social sanctuary -- Exorcizing the accursed interior -- From individual dwelling to collective housing -- The image of the city. 3. Modernism and Memory. The politics of utopia -- The utopian dimension of the Paris arcades -- Utopia and the dialectical image -- Architecture and utopia. 4. Utopianism and Utility. The politics of participation -- Architectural modernism and participation -- The Situanist International and an urbanism of play -- A counter-monumental architecture of remembrance. 5. Participation and Politics. 6. Benjamin's Memorial.
Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy.
Examining Benjamin’s contributions to cultural criticism in relation to the works of Max Ernst, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Sigfried Giedion, this book also situates Benjamin’s work within more recent developments in architecture and urbanism.
This is a concise, coherent account of the relevance of Walter Benjamin’s writings to architects, locating Benjamin’s critical work within the context of contemporary architecture and urbanism.--backover. https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-Architects-Thinkers-Brian-Elliott/dp/0415558158
9781138229292
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Architecture
Architecture--Philosophy
Authors
Painters
Authors
B3209.B584 / E45 2011