The Historiography of Modern Architecture

Panayotis Tournikiotis

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MIT Press
27 February 2001

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Theory of architecture

Series: The MIT Press

The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts.

Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history-of buildings to books-has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture.

Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the ""beginning"" of the story really functions as a ""representation"" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure.

Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century- Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models.

By: Panayotis Tournikiotis
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780262700856
ISBN 10: 0262700859
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 27 February 2001
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Panayotis Tournikiotis is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens.

Reviews for The Historiography of Modern Architecture

""With this book, Panayotis Tournikiotos has achieved a great feat of architectural historiography."" - Francoise Choay, Professor of the History of Ideas and the History of Urbanism at the French Institute for Urbanism, University of Paris""