Aaron Betsky

Making It Modern: The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design

Buch

This book traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life, and the attempts to represent them in the construction of a modernist world. At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying to catch what has alreadyappeared -an attemp… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-940291-15-4
EAN: 9781940291154
Produktnummer: 15843191
Verlag: Actar D
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.1 cm x D3.2 cm 811 g
Auflage: English
Gewicht: 811

Über den Autor

Aaron Betsky (born 1958) is a critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, as well as Dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. He was previously the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Betsky was named as the director of the 11th Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2008. From 1995-2001 Betsky was Curator of Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He worked as a designer for Frank Gehry and Hodgetts & Fung.