Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
Architecture Facing Modernity / 1: |
Concepts of Modernity |
Dwelling Fades into the Distance. . . |
The Dilemmas of Architecture |
Constructing the Modern Movement / 2: |
An Architectural Avant-Garde? |
Sigfried Giedion: A Programmatic View of Modernity |
Das Neue Frankfurt: The Search for a Unified Culture |
Reflections in a Mirror / 3: |
The Experience Rupture |
Adolf Loos: The Broken Continuation of Tradition |
Walter Benjamin: The Dream of a Classless Society |
Building on a Hollow Space: Ernst Bloch's Criticism of Modern Architecture |
The Venice School, or the Diagnosis of Negative Thought |
Architecture as Critique of Modernity / 4: |
Avant-Garde versus Modernism |
New Babylon: The Antinomies of Utopia |
No Way Out: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory |
Mimesis in Architecture |
Afterword: Dwelling, Mimesis, Culture |
Notes |
Index |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
Architecture Facing Modernity / 1: |
Concepts of Modernity |
Dwelling Fades into the Distance. . . |
The Dilemmas of Architecture |