Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern - Softcover

Otero-pailos, Jorge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816666040 ISBN 13: 9780816666041

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Architecture&;s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question.

 

Jorge Otero-Pailos shows how architectural phenomenology radically transformed how architects engaged, theorized, and produced history. In the first critical intellectual account of the movement, Otero-Pailos discusses the contributions of leading members, including Jean Labatut, Charles Moore, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Kenneth Frampton. For architects maturing after World War II, Otero-Pailos contends, architectural history was a problem rather than a given. Paradoxically, their awareness of modernism&;s historicity led some of them to search for an ahistorical experiential constant that might underpin all architectural expression. They drew from phenomenology, exploring the work of Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Ricoeur, which they translated for architectural audiences. Initially, the concept that experience could be a timeless architectural language provided a unifying intellectual basis for the stylistic pluralism that characterized postmodernism. It helped give theory&;especially the theory of architectural history&;a new importance over practice. However, as Otero-Pailos makes clear, architectural phenomenologists could not accept the idea of theory as an end in itself. In the mid-1980s they were caught in the contradictory and untenable position of having to formulate their own demotion of theory.

 

Otero-Pailos reveals how, ultimately, the rise of architectural phenomenology played a crucial double role in the rise of postmodernism, creating the antimodern specter of a historical consciousness and offering the modern notion of essential experience as the means to defeat it.

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Jorge Otero-Pailos is assistant professor of historic preservation at Columbia University&;s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

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• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0816666040
• ISBN 13: 9780816666041
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310
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