Research Catalog

Title

Untimely moderns : how twentieth-century architecture reimagined the past / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.

Author

Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa.

Publication

• New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Description

ix, 205 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color); 26 cm

Summary

"Through much of the twentieth century, a diverse group of thinkers engaged in an interdisciplinary conversation about the meaning of time and history for modern art and architecture. The group included architects Louis Kahn, Everett Victor Meeks, James Gamble Rogers, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen; artists Anni and Josef Albers; philosopher Paul Weiss; and art historians Henri Focillon, George Kubler, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, and Vincent Scully. These figures were unified by their resistance to the idea that, to be considered modern, art and architecture had to be of its time, as well as by the pivotal role that Yale University held as a backdrop to their thinking. These thinkers sponsored a new kind of approach, one that Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen terms 'untimely,' emphasizing a departure from a sequential course of events. Ideas about temporal duration, new tradition, the presence of the past, and the shape of time were among the concepts they explored. With an interdisciplinary focus, Pelkonen reveals previously unexplored connections among key figures of American intellectual and artistic culture at midcentury whose works and words would shape modern architecture" --

Subject

• Yale University > Buildings
• Architecture > Philosophy
• Time > Philosophy
• Time perception
• Architectural practice
• Architecture > United States > Designs and plans
• Architecture > United States > History > 20th century
• Modern movement (Architecture)
• Architecture > Philosophie
• Temps > Philosophie
• Perception du temps
• Architecture > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
• Architecture > États-Unis > Dessins et plans
• architectural theory
• ART / Criticism & Theory
• Architecture > Philosophy
• Time > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Viii Acknowledgements -- Prolegomenon to Untimely Moderns -- Part One Constancy and Change -- Chapter 1. Everett Victor Meeks: Usable Past -- Chapter 2. James Gamble Rogers: Modern Gothic -- Part Two Time and History -- Chapter 3. Henri Focillon: Liquid Temporalities -- Chapter 4. Joseph and Anni Albers: New Beginnings -- Part Three Past and Future -- Chapter 5. Louis I. Kahn and Paul Weiss: Presence of the Past -- Chapter 6. Euro Saarinen and George Kubler: Shaping Time -- Chapter 7. Paul Rudolph and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Time Machines -- Chapter 8. Vincent Scully: The Historian's Revenge -- Postscript: Time Today -- Notes -- Index -- Credits.

ISBN

• 9780300263954
• 0300263953

LCCN

• 99996183777
• 99994604967

OCLC

• on1346949637
• 1346949637
• SCSB-14626258

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries