Benjamin for architects / Brian Elliott

By: Elliot, Brian [author. ]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Thinkers for Architects ; 06. Publisher: London : New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: First published 2011Description: 146 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138229292 (eBook)Subject(s): Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 | Architecture | Architecture -- Philosophy | Authors | Painters | AuthorsLOC classification: B3209.B584 E45 2011
Contents:
1. Metropolitanism and Method. Childhood images -- Berlin -- Naples -- Moscow -- Architectural montage.
2. Radicalism and Revolution. 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.
3. Modernism and Memory. Modernity and modernism -- The domestic interior as social sanctuary -- Exorcizing the accursed interior -- From individual dwelling to collective housing -- The image of the city.
4. Utopianism and Utility. The politics of utopia -- The utopian dimension of the Paris arcades -- Utopia and the dialectical image -- Architecture and utopia.
5. Participation and Politics. The politics of participation -- Architectural modernism and participation -- The Situanist International and an urbanism of play -- A counter-monumental architecture of remembrance.
6. Benjamin's Memorial.
Subject: 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-144) and index (pages 145-146).

1. Metropolitanism and Method. Childhood images -- Berlin -- Naples -- Moscow -- Architectural montage.

2. Radicalism and Revolution. 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.

3. Modernism and Memory. Modernity and modernism -- The domestic interior as social sanctuary -- Exorcizing the accursed interior -- From individual dwelling to collective housing -- The image of the city.

4. Utopianism and Utility. The politics of utopia -- The utopian dimension of the Paris arcades -- Utopia and the dialectical image -- Architecture and utopia.

5. Participation and Politics. The politics of participation -- Architectural modernism and participation -- The Situanist International and an urbanism of play -- A counter-monumental architecture of remembrance.

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