Architecture After God: Babel Resurgent
Architecture After God: Babel Resurgent
Architecture after the Death of God
What has been the impact on architecture of the event Nietzsche called the death of God? What building exemplifies the impact of this metaphysical upheaval on the physical constructions of modernity?
Uriel Birnbaum's fable in which an emperor commissions an architect to build heaven on earth, Peter Sloterdijk's architectural critique, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, the historical events of the 20th century, and other intellectual approaches form the starting points for a critical reflection on early modernism, with which Dugdale invites us to rethink this era.
The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics.
- Critical reappraisal of early modernism
- Based on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum
- New volume in the Exploring Architecture series
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Architecture after the Death of God
What has been the impact on architecture of the event Nietzsche called the death of God? What building exemplifies the impact of this metaphysical upheaval on the physical constructions of modernity?
Uriel Birnbaum's fable in which an emperor commissions an architect to build heaven on earth, Peter Sloterdijk's architectural critique, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, the historical events of the 20th century, and other intellectual approaches form the starting points for a critical reflection on early modernism, with which Dugdale invites us to rethink this era.
The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics.
- Critical reappraisal of early modernism
- Based on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum
- New volume in the Exploring Architecture series
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