The earth that modernism built: empire and the rise of planetary design
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Beteilige Person: Cupers, Kenny 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Austin University of Texas Press 2024
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices
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Abstract:"In The Earth That Modernism Built, architectural historian Kenny Cupers provides an intellectual history of the relationship between modernism and the project of colonial settlement in the context of Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. In particular, he explores the ways that early twentieth-century modernist architects transposed nineteenth-century ideas from realms such as biology and soil research into the analysis and design of spatial, aesthetic, social, and technical arrangements. The key concept for much of his discussion is Bodenständigkeit--earth-boundedness or rootedness in the soil. The project of making buildings look as if they were bound to the earth was not just a matter of aesthetics, he argues, but came to serve in efforts to define what and who was natural, who belonged and who did not [...]."
Umfang:xiii, 373 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 23 cm
ISBN:9781477329818
9781477330210