Architecture of the off-modern
Subtitle: Svetlana Boym.
Contributors: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.
Series: FORuM project
Publisher: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture; Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781568987781
Subjects: Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy; Architecture and society
Description: This is an imaginative tour through the history and afterlife of Vladimir Tatlin's legendary but unbuilt Monument to the Third International of 1920. Boym traces the vicissitudes of Tatlin's Tower from its reception in the 1920s to its privileged recall in 'the reservoir of unofficial utopian dreams' of the Soviet-era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Architecture of adventure and the off-modern; title: Tatlin's techne and revolutionary ruins; title: Architecture of estrangement and the curve of freedom; title: Architecture of suspension  and project-poetics; title: Installation-architecture and contemporary ruinophilia; title: Notes; title: Illustrations; title: An off-modern manifesto.