Whither Internationalism?

How tenable was the proposition that Modern Architecture could be a medium or method of attaining “internationalism”? For the generation of architects who were schooled in the polemical context of the post-modern turn in critical thinking about architectural design and culture, the notion of a univ...

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Hlavní autor: Scriver, Peter
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: ABE Journal 2019
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Shrnutí:How tenable was the proposition that Modern Architecture could be a medium or method of attaining “internationalism”? For the generation of architects who were schooled in the polemical context of the post-modern turn in critical thinking about architectural design and culture, the notion of a universal “modernist functionalism” transcending culture and even history itself was one of the most fundamental givens—or so we understood—of the doctrine in question. For those, including the present...