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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Auteur principal: Scriver, Peter
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: ABE Journal 2019
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Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé: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...