Name: Architecture after God
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ISBN: 9783035625028

Welche Auswirkungen hat das Ereignis, das Nietzsche als den Tod Gottes bezeichnet, auf die Architektur? Welches Gebäude veranschaulicht die Auswirkungen dieser metaphysischen Umwälzung auf die physischen Konstruktionen der Moderne? Die von Uriel Birnbaum verfasste Fabel, in der ein Kaiser einen Architekten beauftragt, den Himmel auf Erden zu bauen, Peter Sloterdijks Architekturkritik, der Turmbau zu Babel, die historischen Ereignisse des 20. Jahrhunderts und weitere intellektuelle Ansätze bilden die Ausgangspunkte einer kritischen Reflexion über die erste Moderne, mit der Dugdale uns dazu einlädt, diese Epoche neu zu denken. Die Buchreihe Exploring Architecture macht Architekturwissenschaft zugänglich, stellt neueste Forschungsmethoden vor und deckt ein breites Spektrum an Epochen, Regionen und Themen ab. <UL> <LI>Kritische Aufarbeitung der ersten Moderne </LI> <LI>Basierend auf der Fabel Der Kaiser und der Architekt (1924) von Uriel Birnbaum </LI> <LI>Neuer Band der Reihe Exploring Architecture </LI></UL>

Architecture after God A vivid retelling of the biblical story of Babel leads from the contested site of Babylon to the soaring towers of the modern metropolis, and sets the bright hopes of early modernism against the shadows of gathering war. Dealing in structural metaphor, utopian aspiration, and geopolitical ambition, Dugdale exposes the inexorable architectural implications of the event described by Nietzsche as the death of God. The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics. <UL> <LI>Critical reappraisal of early modernism </LI> <LI>Based on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum </LI> <LI>New volume in the Exploring Architecture series </LI></UL>

Turm von Babel; Architekturtheorie; Architekturgeschichte; Friedrich Nietzsche; Uriel Birnbaum; Paradies; Architekturvision; Architekturwissenschaft; Peter Sloterdijk

Tower of Babel; Theory; History; Architecture vision; Friedrich Nietzsche; Paradise; Research; Uriel Birnbaum; Peter Sloterdijk

Babel Resurgent

Architecture after God

Kyle Dugdale, Yale School of Architecture, Columbia GSAPP

Kyle Dugdale teaches history, theory, and design at Yale School of Architecture. He holds an undergraduate degree from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a professional degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and a doctoral degree from Yale. A resident of New York City and a licensed architect, he has also taught at Columbia and at the City College of New York. He is a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. His research has been supported by the Society of Architectural Historians, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and his work has been published in journals including Perspecta, Thresholds, Utopian Studies, and Wolkenkuckucksheim.

Architecture after God  A vivid retelling of the biblical story of Babel leads from the contested site of Babylon to the soaring towers of the modern metropolis, and sets the bright hopes of early modernism against the shadows of gathering war. Dealing in structural metaphor, utopian aspiration, and geopolitical ambition, Dugdale exposes the inexorable architectural implications of the event described by Nietzsche as the death of God.  The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics.   Critical reappraisal of early modernism  Based on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum  New volume in the Exploring Architecture series 

Architecture after God  A vivid retelling of the biblical story of Babel leads from the contested site of Babylon to the soaring towers of t

Architecture after God

Babel Resurgent

Kyle Dugdale

Volume in the series Exploring Architecture