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Title: TIME FOR ARCHITECTURE: on modernity, memory and time in architecture and urban design.
Creators: ADAM ROBERT.
Imprint: [S.l.]: CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLIS, 2020
Collection: Электронные книги зарубежных издательств; Общая коллекция
Subjects: Architecture, Modern; Architecture and society — History; Time.; City planning.; Collective memory and city planning.; Symbolism in city planning.; EBSCO eBooks
Document type: Other
File type: PDF
Language: English
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Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • I: Timeless
    • 1. Timeless Architecture
    • 2. Timelessness in Anthropology and Religion
    • 3. Timeless Architecture and Religion
    • 4. Proportion and Religion
    • 5. Proportion and Metaphysics in Architecture
    • 6. The Golden Section
    • 7. Tradition and the Integration of Time
    • 8. Modernism and the Science of Timelessness
    • 9. Presentism and Modernity
    • 10. From Timeless to Time
    • Endnotes
  • II: Recognising Time
    • 1. Time, Space and Architecture
    • 2. Cosmology, Physics and Time
    • 3. Time and Experience
    • 4. Perceiving Time
    • 5. Perceiving Now
    • 6. Now and the Future
    • 7. Architecture and the Future
    • 8. Anticipation and Surprise
    • 9. Architecture, Science Fiction and the Future
    • 10. The Future becomes the Past
    • Endnotes
  • III: How Things Change
    • 1. Everything Changes
    • 2. How Time Changes
    • 3. Change, Economics and Innovation
    • 4. Architecture and Innovation
    • 5. Post-Modernism, a Case Study in Change
    • 6. Variable Rates of Change and their Consequences
    • 7. M. R. G. Conzen and Variable Urban Change
    • 8. Urban Change and Architecture
    • 9. The Importance of Building Life
    • 10. Variation in Building Life and Sustainability
    • 11. From Change to Modernity
    • Endnotes
  • IV: Modernity
    • 1. The Significance of Modernity in Contemporary Architecture
    • 2. The Nature of Modernity
    • 3. The History of Modernity
    • 4. Meanings of Modernity
    • 5. Positive and Negative Perceptions of Modernity
    • 6. The Geography of Modernity
    • 7. Understanding Modernity
    • Endnotes
  • V: Memory
    • 1. Memory Is All We Have
    • 2. Architecture and Memory
    • 3. Architecture as the Memory of Others
    • 4. Modernism, Forgetting and Remembering
    • 5. Selective Remembering, History and Building Preservation
    • 6. Destroying Buildings as Culture
    • 7. The Significance of Destruction and Reconstruction
    • 8. Memory and History
    • 9. Reconstruction and Authenticity
    • 10. Memory and Authenticity
    • 11. The Fallibility of History
    • 12. Heritage and Community
    • 13. Community and Collective Memory
    • 14. The Paradox of Tradition and Modernity
    • 15. Tradition and Custom
    • 16. Case Studies of Tradition and Culture
    • 17. Dual Inheritance Theory
    • 18. Tradition and Group Identity
    • 19. Reconsidering Enlightenment Attitudes to Tradition
    • 20. Tradition in a Modern Context
    • 21. Whose Tradition? Tradition in Architecture and Urban Design
    • Endnotes
  • Afterword
  • Index

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