The liberal monument : urban design and the late modern project /
Urban design and the late modern project
Alexander D'Hooghe.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Rotterdam : Princeton Architectural Press ; Berlage Institute, c2010.
- 112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
The liberal monument -- Group -- Protagonists -- Urban design -- Centers of resistance -- Liberalism as formalism -- Not program but flow between programs -- Sprawl -- The core -- Sert's core -- Polynuclearity -- Organizing distances -- A formal template for the core -- Empty space -- Platform -- Shattering and regrouping -- Maki's "master form" -- Moving beyond the totalizing ambitions of urban planning design --The "not yet" form -- Liberalism -- A romantic conception of the public -- Romantic pluralism -- Empathy -- Acropolis -- Aesthetic theory of the monument -- Symbolic form in architecture -- Giedion's symbolic forms -- Sert's symbolic forms -- Louis Kahn's symbolic forms -- A liberal monument for the new American century? -- The conversation (that never took place).
9781568988245 (alk. paper)
City planning--Political aspects. Architecture and society--History--20th century.