The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate [Hardcover]

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.

Gevork Hartoonian is Emeritus Professor of architectural history at the University of Canberra, Australia, and holds a Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has taught in American universities, including Pratt Institute and Columbia University, NYC. Hartoonian is most recently the author of Towards a Critique of Architectures Contemporaneity: 4 Essays (Routledge 2023), Reading Kenneth Frampton: A Commentary on Modern Architecture 1980 (Anthem Press 2022), and Time, History and Architecture: essays on critical historiography (Routledge 2020/2018). His previous publications include, among others, Architecture and Spectacle: a critique (Routledge, 2016/2012) and The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian (2013). The Korean and Thai edition of his Ontology of Construction (Cambridge University Press, 1994) was published in 2010 and 2017.

List of Contributors

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Introduction

Gevork Hartoonian

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Part I: Historico-theoretical Paths

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1????????? Empire: Architecture and Totality

??????????? Gevork Hartoonian

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2????????? The Architecture of Power, or the Power of Architects

??????????? Jean-Louis Cohen

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3????????? Times Envelope: City/Capital/Chronotope

??????????? Harry Harootunian

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