Mertins, Detlef.

Modernity unbound : other histories of architectural modernity / Detlef Mertins. - London : Architectural Association, c2011. - 187, [13] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - Architecture words ; 7 . - Architecture words ; 7. .

Glass architecture -- Anything but literal: Sigfried Giedion and the reception of Cubism in Germany -- Transparency: autonomy and relationality -- Then enticing and threatening face of prehistory: Walter Benjamin and the utopia of glass - Walter Benjamin and the tectonic unconscious: using architecture as an optical instrument -- Same difference -- Mies's event space -- Bioconstructivisms -- Pervasive plasticity.

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Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture--Philosophy.

NA682.M63 / M47 2011

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