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Kasper Lægring is a theorist of architecture and the arts, a curator, and currently a New Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History at Aarhus University. He is serving as the Second Vice President of the European Architectural History Network for the period 20242026 (with Panagiotis Farantatos). With research degrees in architecture (MS, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, The Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture) and art history (Mag.art., University of Copenhagen), he has received recognition such as the Gold Medal of the University of Copenhagen. His studies and research have been supported by numerous prestigious institutions, including the J. William Fulbright Commission, the New Carlsberg Foundation, and the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. Some recent notable publications include contributions to A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries (Brill, 2022) and The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory (Routledge, 2022). This book is a revised and expanded version of his PhD dissertation.
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This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960s-Nelson Goodman's aesthetic theory on one side, and critiques of modern architecture articulated by figures like Peter Blake, Charles Jencks, and Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown on the other.
Résumé
This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960sNelson Goodman's aesthetic theory on one side, and critiques of modern architecture articulated by figures like Peter Blake, Charles Jencks, and Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown on the other.
Contenu
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Reckoning with the critique of modern architecture
A Goodmanian take on modern architecture and its critiques
Defining the object of study
Problems of demarcation
The ideological basis for modern architecture in functionalist theory
Current research into the praxis of modern architecture
Chapter 2: Applying Goodman's aesthetic theory to architecture
Aesthetics and cognition
Aesthetics and language
Goodman as nominalist
Right or wrong rather than true or false
When does architecture take place? Goodman's rejection of competing theories
Languages of Art
Symbol systems and symbol schemes
Syntactic and semantic, notation, digital and analog
Imperfect notational systems: Notational schemes
Allographic, autographic and the steps of the design process
Notational approaches: Score and script
Notation and mixed symbol systems in architecture
Denotation
Fictitious denotation Exemplification
Exemplification in modern architecture Expression (metaphorical exemplification)
Feelings or moods? Complex and mediate modes of reference: Allusion, variation, style
Style
Chapter 3: Symbolization in pre-modern architecture
Renaissance architecture
Mannerist architecture
Baroque architecture
Rococo architecture
Neoclassical architecture
Romanticist impulses
Historicist architecture
Chapter 4: Symbolization in the early phases of modern architecture
The Chicago School
Wainwright Building Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, Wiener Secession, and Catalan Modernisme
Willow Tearooms Adolf Loos
Looshaus Expressionist architecture
Einsteinturm
Glass architecture
Chapter 5: The aesthetic implications of the critique of modern architecture
The International Style exhibition in 1932 as a compass
The aesthetically oriented critique of modern architecture, circa 1970
Chapter 6: Symbolization in modern architecture
The International Style: Mies van der Rohe and the minimalism of glass and steel
General means of aesthetic symbolization in Mies' formalistic architecture The International Style: Gropius, Bauhaus, and the factory aesthetic
Formalism and classicism in American federal and corporate International Style The International Style: Le Corbusier and Purism
The white, cubist aesthetic of the villas of Loos and Le Corbusier Le Corbusier's late works and the Brutalism of béton brut
The imprint of Brutalism on late modernism Frank Lloyd Wright and organic modernism
Bibliography
Index