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The liberal monument : urban design and the late modern project / Alexander D'Hooghe.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Princeton Architectural Press ; Rotterdam : Berlage Institute, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 112 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781568988245 (alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Urban design and the late modern project
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1/216 22 ALE
Contents:
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).
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PG Books BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning 307.1216 ALE (Browse shelf) Available S-20 AR-PG244

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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).

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