{"product_id":"twentieth-century-architecture-and-modernity-our-past-our-present-9781954081901","title":"Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity: Our Past, Our Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe theme of \"modernity\" was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionizing our way of life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy causing in its development absolutizations and misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound desire to improve everyone's life were reconsidered\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the theory that the 20th century connected the objective of modernity to that of the Modern Movement, this book deals with the theme of a present continuity by revealing those \"open visions\" that characterized modernity at the end of the 19th century. By critically reviewing the main stages of development over time--as well as the intense debates of architectural historians, architects, and contemporary scholars--through the thesis of modernity as tradition, research, and criticism, a concept of contradiction is supported. Further echoed by that of \"architecture tout court,\" enhancing the present environment in its current fragility of views--even more so today with the appearance of a virus capable of undermining our way of living. These are \"contemporary modernisms\" aimed at recovering the essence of a recent past to project it into the present, restoring to architecture that long-neglected role of critical construction and formation of society in an era, ultimately defined as \"of Rembrandt beauty.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oro Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453108064530,"sku":"9781954081901","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_92e83845-0716-484f-9a4c-0020220fa7f3.jpg?v=1729835808","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/twentieth-century-architecture-and-modernity-our-past-our-present-9781954081901","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}