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Author Hartoonian, Gevork.

Title Ontology of construction : on nihilism of technology in theories of modern architecture / Gevork Hartoonian
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  724.6 Har/Ooc  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Foreword / Kenneth Frampton -- 1. Montage: Recoding the Tectonic -- 2. Architecture and the Question of Technology: Two Positions and the "Other" -- 3. Adolf Loos: The Awakening Moments of Tradition in Modern Architecture -- 4. Metier: Frank Lloyd Wright's Tradition of Dwelling -- 5. Mies van der Rohe: The Genealogy of Column and Wall -- 6. Construction of the Not Yet Construed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-110) and index
Subject Architecture -- Technological innovations.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
LC no. 93037387
ISBN 0521454808 (hardback)
0521586453