Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism

by Anthony Vidler

How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism--Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri--advanced specific versions of modernism.

Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began to assess the legacy of the avant-gardes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262720515
• ISBN13: 9780262720519
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher