Title: The historiography of modern architecture
First published: 1999
Description: "Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure."--BOOK JACKET. "Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models."--Jacket.
Subjects: Historiography, Architecture, Modern, Modern Architecture, Architecture, modern, 20th century, Architecture, history, Architecture, Historiographie, History, Architectuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap), Geschiedschrijving, Philosophy
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: NA680 .T68 1999