{"product_id":"vernacular-modernism-heimat-globalization-and-the-built-environment-paperback","title":"Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaiken Umbach\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBernd Hüppauf\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVernacular Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of modernity's most paradigmatic sites--both real and imagined. They engage in a search for an idiom that mediates between place and space, the vernacular and the abstract in architecture, from its early phase and Hermann Muthesius via LeCorbusier's high modernism, to the contemporary movement of a \"critical regionalism.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume's broad geographic scope and inventive exploration of diverse vernacular expressions will convince readers that modernization and modernism were far more open-ended and heterogeneous than previously acknowledged.--H-Net Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection of essays imaginatively and with great insight discusses the various vernaculars within modernist architectural practice, thereby altering our understanding of modernism's relationship to the past, its uses of memory, and its embeddedness in historically and geographically specific contexts.\" --Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51457741914335,"sku":"9780804753432","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DlNoe7MHXT9780804753432.webp?v=1790348434","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/vernacular-modernism-heimat-globalization-and-the-built-environment-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}