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Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Andrew Benjamin
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: re.press

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Walter Benjamin is universally recognised as one of the key thinkers of modernity: his writings on politics, language, literature, media, theology and law have
Architecture and Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Hilde Heynen
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-02-28 - Publisher: MIT Press

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Bridges the gap between the history and theory of twentieth-century architecture and cultural theories of modernity. In this exploration of the relationship bet
Walter Benjamin and Architecture
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Gevork Hartoonian
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-27 - Publisher: Routledge

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The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin’s discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories.
The Emergence of the Interior
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Charles Rice
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-11-22 - Publisher: Routledge

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Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how
Tracing Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Mari Hvattum
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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First published in 2004. Walter Benjamin famously defined modernity as “the world dominated by its phantasmagorias”. The chapters in this book focus on one