Avant-garde : re-thinking architecture

Author

Hartoonian, Gevork

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art criticism. 1992, Num. 2, Vol. 7, 100-107

ISSN

0195-4148

Abstract (en)

Employs distinctions discerned by Peter Bürger between the modern movement and the historical avant-garde to reinterpret concepts critical to architectural theories. Discusses the significance of Boullée's avant-garde architecture and contrasts architecture since the late 19th c. in which form, divorced from socio-political context, is the sole content. Suggests that the failure of the project of the historical avant-garde, coupled with the nihilism of technology, has problematized current theories of architecture, e.g., Tafuri and Frampton.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- Architecture
• Architectural theory
• 1900-2000
• Modernism
• Avant-garde
• Architecture
• Boullée, Etienne Louis, 1728-1799
• Comparison
• Technology

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- Architecture
• Théorie de l'architecture
• 1900-2000
• Modernisme
• Avant-garde
• Architecture
• Boullée, Etienne Louis, 1728-1799
• Comparaison
• Technologie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19930401-00366994

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