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5 décembre 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.inha.1416
- eisbn: 9782917902646
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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modernism modernisme vernaculaire international style mechanization pragmatism regionalism utilitarianism vernacular style international mécanisation pragmatisme régionalisme utilitarisme Carl Mackley Houses Dymaxion House Glessner House Marshall Field Wholesale Store Monadnock Building Necco factory Museum of Modern Art architecture mutations limites spatiales limites temporelles histoire de l’architecture architecture and history architecture time limits space boundaries changes Arts & Humanities Architecture ARC000000 ART015000 AC AMSujets proches
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Mardges Bacon, « Architecture, Regionalism, and the Vernacular:Reconceptualizing Modernism in America », Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, ID : 10.4000/books.inha.1416
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Recent attention to regional and vernacular influences has reshaped the discourse on modernism. In a historiographical case study of modernism in America, I show how such historians and critics as Lewis Mumford, Douglas Haskell, Alfred Barr, and Henry-Russell Hitchcock each advanced a different archaeology of modernism. My contention is that two primary streams of American modernism countered the received tradition of European avant-garde architecture. The first was associated with the “organic tradition,” as defined by Louis Sullivan and refined by Mumford in his book, The Brown Decades (1931). A second stream of American modernism was centered on technocratic initiatives. In an effort to repatriate their own vernacular forms based in mechanization, which European architects had previously appropriated as signs of modernity, such productivists as Buckminster Fuller and Knud Lönberg-Holm called for advanced technology over machine-age symbolism.