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First issue of Das Neue Frankfurt,
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the stage coach to the railways, fr
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joy a minimum of modern comforts (f
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19 20 Aerial photograph of the Sied
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On the level of the morphology of t
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inaugurate the new era by developin
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houses no longer built face to face
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that the architecture of all the ro
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Westhausen, pedestrian path giving
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The result is a Siedlung in which a
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Theo van Doesburg, Space-Time Const
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Frankfurt were factors that could n
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“A homogeneous metropolitan publi
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The modern was present already, he
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well form an obstacle in the way of
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Josef Hoffmann, Palais Stoclet, Bru
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where it is built. Architects who t
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40 Adolf Loos, Moller House, Vienna
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Adolf Loos, Moller House, axonometr
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ing room is dominated by the dining
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Adolf Loos, Moller House, stairs fr
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exterior is distinguished by the ex
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49 Adolf Loos, house on the Michael
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of the mezzanine the interior fills
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interiors that are decorated by pro
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ecause it is an authentic expressio
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The hallmark of modernity is the de
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Paul Klee, Angelus Novus, 1920. (Th
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tential for reversal (Umschlag), as
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56 57 Passage des Panoramas, Paris,
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ety. This assessment of modern arch
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opposition between allegory and sym
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The primal form of all dwelling is
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had animated genuine humanism. A ne
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the term with flexibility and adapt
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Architecture, Modernity, and Dwelli
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Leipzig. The regime there was initi
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architecture, with all its flamboya
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It goes without saying that communi
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Modernism as a Breaking Point withi
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anything in functionalism that migh
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these views were formulated more pr
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the process of social modernization
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chaos. Tafuri argues, however, that
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Paul Citroën, Metropolis, 1923. (R
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with the process of rationalization
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to a “school of resistance.” Un
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Nonetheless, says Dal Co, modern ar
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plays a kind of materialism based o
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never ends definitively. 191 And ye
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ing educational institutions and th
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International situationism was the
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of individuals. The term suggests t
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urbanism. This causes a subversion
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played an important part. The Provo
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Culture has always been created in
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Constant, New Babylon, interior vie
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Constant, New Babylon, drawing, 196
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Constant, New Babylon, labyrinth wi
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Constant, Ode à l’Odéon, 1969.
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Constant, Terrain vague, 1973. (Col
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each the pure kernel of authenticit
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the center of contemporary antinomi
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The final star in Adorno’s conste
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ment, to escape the identifying, to
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and emancipation risk becoming illu
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time as the Dialectic of Enlightenm
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diating between rationality and mim
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thoroughly negative one, showing as
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ut for this gesture. In his analyse
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that determine their condition. In
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For Heidegger the Greek temple is a
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explore the theme of mimesis in any
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fectly. The dream of a perfect auto
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the design process at which an arch
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Daniel Libeskind, extension of the
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Daniel Libeskind, extension of the
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an endless list of names, dates of
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in history, a hole that swallows up
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A Tower of Babel To stay viable aft
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Office for Metropolitan Architectur
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Office for Metropolitan Architectur
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unique landmark with an unmistakabl
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moment of “authenticity” that w
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Architecture Facing Modernity 1 Epi
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Press, 1979). See also Georges Teys
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siveness of the residence is not ov
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tently, arrogantly and with loathin
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würdigen Unterkunft harren. Wären
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Forderungen. Gelänge es dem vormal
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for people. This mask takes a form
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Sprache der Menschen,” an early e
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74 Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften,
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107 See Benjamin, Berliner Kindheit
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möglich Positives: dass die Trümm
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keep a minimal escape route open. I
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79 This point of view is related to
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115 Bernhard Schneider, “Daniel L
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B Bahr, Hermann, 72-73, 74, 76, 141
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K Kabbala, 95, 176 Kabouters, 157 K
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T Tafuri, Manfredo, 5, 53, 69, 117,