264 N Nägele, Rainer, 108–109 Negation, 23, 27, 42, 67, 140, 172, 186–188 Negative thought, 129, 136–141, 145, 147 New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), 121, 122–128, 134–135 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 14, 141 Nihilism, 27, 140–141, 147 Norberg-Schulz, Christian, 18–23, 223 O Offermans, Cyrille, 97 Olbrich, Joseph Maria, 75 Ornament, 5, 28, 64, 78, 95, 111, 122–124 P Pastoral concept of modernity, 5, 13–14, 29, 43, 46, 70, 73–74, 95, 128, 146, 149, 180, 223 Paz, Octavio, 9 Pevsner, Nikolaus, 75 Picasso, Pablo, 39, 189 Piranesi, Giambattista, 168, 170 Plato, 193–194, 196 Poelzig, Hans, 134 Poggioli, Renato, 27 Postmodernism, 12–13 Provos, 157, 160 R Rationalization, 5, 29, 49, 60, 67–68, 129, 132–135, 136, 139, 151 Reification, 184, 186, 187, 191 Rimbaud, Arthur, 158, 185, 191 Rodríguez-Lores, Juan, 68, 69 Ruskin, John, 148 S Sant’Elia, Antonio, 32, 36 Scheerbart, Paul, 32, 100, 110, 140 Schlemmer, Oskar, 66 Schmidt, Hans, 66 Schütte-Lihotsky, Grethe, 49 Schoenberg, Arnold, 80, 204, 206, 207 Schwab, Alex<strong>and</strong>er, 127 Schwitters, Kurt, 66, 130, 137 Sezession, 75, 78 Shklovsky, Viktor, 131 Simmel, Georg, 73–74, 130, 135, 136, 138 Situationism, 6, 150, 151–157 Socialisme ou Barbarie, 150, 156 Spengler, Oswald, 142, 176 Stam, Mart, 33, 47, 50, 51 Surrealism, 67, 131 265
T Tafuri, Manfredo, 5, 53, 69, 117, 128–136, 143–147, 191 Taut, Bruno, 117, 124, 125, 134, 140 Taylorism, 46 Tiedemann, Rolf, 106 Tönnies, Ferdin<strong>and</strong>, 135, 142, 176 Tradition, 9–10, 12, 15, 18, 19, 27, 63–64, 67, 78–79, 93–95, 98–100, 118, 172, 220, 222 Transitory concept of modernity, 11–13, 28, 29, 35–37, 42, 47, 67, 118, 152, 172–173, 175, 183, 217, 223 U Uhlig, G., 68, 69 Umfunktionierung, 118, 126, 127 Unheimlich, 224 Unitary urbanism, 150, 151–155, 158 Unwin, Raymond, 55 Utopia, 53, 118–121, 122, 126–128, 143, 147, 151–152, 172–175, 176, 187, 190, 208, 216 Utzon, Jørn, 39 V Van de Velde, Henry, 95, 111–113, 148 Van Doesburg, Theo, 8, 41, 64, 65, 69, 164 Vaneigem, Raoul, 154–155, 156 W Wagner, Martin, 117, 134 Weber, Max, 11, 135 Werkbund, 75, 78, 124, 140, 148 Wigley, Mark, 195–196 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 179 Z Zevi, Bruno, 128 Index
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