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The Historiography of Modern Architecture - by Panayotis Tournikiotis (Paperback)

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  • The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts.Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture.
  • About the Author: Panayotis Tournikiotis is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens.
  • 358 Pages
  • Architecture, History

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The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts.



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The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts.

Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history--of buildings to books--has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture.

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.

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.



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"With this book, Panayotis Tournikiotis has achieved a great feat of architectural historiography."--Francoise Choay, Professor of the History of Ideas and the History of Urbanism at the French Institute for Urbanism, University of Paris

" With this book, Panayotis Tournikiotis has achieved a great feat of architectural historiography." -- Francoise Choay, Professor of the History of Ideas and the History of Urbanism at the French Institute for Urbanism, University of Paris

" With this book, Panayotis Tournikiotis has achieved a great feat of architectural historiography." -- Francoise Choay, Professor of the History of Ideas and the History of Urbanism at the French Institute for Urbanism, University of Paris

-- Francoise Choay, Professor of the History of Ideas and the History of Urbanism at the French Institute for Urbanism, University of Paris



About the Author



Panayotis Tournikiotis is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 7.0 Inches (W) x .75 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.24 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 358
Genre: Architecture
Sub-Genre: History
Publisher: MIT Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Panayotis Tournikiotis
Language: English
Street Date: February 27, 2001
TCIN: 91732553
UPC: 9780262700856
Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-0430
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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