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modernity/post-modernity
aml 2005.05.04 10:48
ok. i'm helping revive this discussion because i was mostly 'out' the week it took place and i'd like to keep reading more of this.
...although it's intimidating to go behind pedromartinez [this has to be an alias for someone else, 0 entries 1 comment?] i'll give it a try....
modernism: search for the purity and autonomy of the arts [of each art in itself]. hegel --> adorno --> greenberg --> eisenman, in different degrees. the question with eisenman becomes, what is *only* architecture, or purely architecture, and nothing else? for him, the answer is space.
but also for eisenman, of course, all modernism was really part of the classical... he sees his first cardboard houses as the beginning of *real* modernism.
i'm coincidentally reading hilde heynen's architecture and modernity: a critique, an excellent read for this topic.
modernity/post-modernity
Rita Novel 2005.05.04 10:48
[...and although Heynen found the notion of reenactment in architecture intriguing, she also found it threatening to her thesis--which translates: it scars the shit out of her that someone other than Tafuri knows what the Ichnographia Campus Martius is really all about. Oh, and that look on her face when I too arrived for Thanksgiving dinner at the Zenghelis/Gigantes' was priceless!]
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