Never Out of Style

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Abstract

As much as architects might wish to avoid talking about style, a concern that emerged only in the mid-nineteenth century, it still keeps popping up. It started with the question of building styles in general - recall Heinrich Hübsch's famous essay, "In welchem Style sollen wir bauen?" - and that led to the questioning of historicist styles altogether via a 'style of our own time'. In the eyes of conventional modernist historiography, this dislocation paved the way for an avant-garde stance in the early twentieth century that advocated for a complete break from the past. By then architects were to design not only for their own time, but for a period ahead of their time - to offer a revolutionary vision of how we ought to live. These imperatives are now so ingrained into the discipline of architecture that we are hardly capable of questioning them. The ethos of the innovative architect often points to the proto-modernist hero of the quattrocento, Filippo Brunelleschi.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftVolume
Vol/bind57
Sider (fra-til)9-11
Antal sider3
ISSN1574-9401
StatusUdgivet - 1 okt. 2020

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