The liberal monument
Subtitle: urban design and the late modern project
By: Alexander D'Hooghe.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781568988245
Subjects: City planning -- Political aspects; Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Urban design and the late modern project
Table of contents: title: Urban design; title: Protagonists; title: The conversation (that never took place); title: The liberal monument; title: Centers of resistance; title: Liberalism as formalism; title: Not program but flow between programs; title: Sprawl; title: The core; title: Sert's core; title: Polynuclearity; title: Organizing distances; title: Group; title: A formal template for the core; title: Empty space; title: Platform; title: Shattering and regrouping; title: Maki's "master form"; title: The space between things; title: Moving beyond the totalizing ambitions of urban planning design; title: The "not yet" form; title: Liberalism; title: A romantic conception of the public; title: Romantic pluralism; title: Empathy; title: Acropolis; title: Aesthetic theory of the monument; title: Symbolic form in architecture; title: Giedion's symbolic forms; title: Sert's symbolic forms; title: Louis Kahn's symbolic forms; title: A liberal monument for the new American century?