Critiquing the Modern in Architecture

Jaimini Mehta

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781134998715
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Written over four decades, Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism from its primarily Eurocentric definition, interrogating the subject from the perspective on a non-western thought-world. Mehta groups his essays under three key themes: "Rethinking Modernity" explores the ideological underpinnings of the modernity/modernism binary; "The Idea of Architecture" looks at a number of issues that constitute the timeless and the invariable aspects of architecture against which the prevalent modernist discourse can be critically evaluated; and "On Praxis" looks at three contemporary architects' work and the Vienna Secessionist movement between 1890 and 1918 to articulate a critique of the underpinnings of the modern movement. Providing a new view of the modern in architecture, this book is critical reading for architectural theorists and scholars of modernism.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Critiquing the Modern in Architecture
• Praise
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Architecture
• Part One: Rethinking Modernity
• Part Two: The Idea of Architecture
• Part Three: On Praxis
• Bibliography
• Illustration Credits
• Index