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Histories of the Immediate Present

Paperback • 2008 • English

Histories of the Immediate Present

By Anthony Vidler

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About the book

Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began to assess the legacy of the avant-gardes in order to construct a coherent narrative of modernism's development, they were inevitably influenced by contemporary concerns. In Histories of the Immediate Present, Anthony Vidler examines the work of four historians of architectura...Show more

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9780262720519

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Histories of the Immediate Present

Format

Paperback

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