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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply Outstanding,
This review is from: Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture (Paperback)
Kwinter's analysis is extraordinary. His method is fairly eclectic, however, as some would issue this as a detraction, he compensates by having a wonderful writing style and a copious amount of mastery of the concepts that he addresses. I have read several treatises on architecture from 'philosophers'(i.e., Foucault, the Sitiuationists, et al.), but what is novel here is a designer explaining the epistemological frame of reference in the edifice, or engendering from it. Furthermore, it is completely amazing to think of the ostensibly disparate entities of Futurist architecture, quantum mechanics and relativity and Kafka as all burgeoning within the same epochal stuctures. I did find it odd that the author did not address Lefevbre's space/time tomes and rhythmanalysis. Kwinter is worth reading, and I think this book will be written about for years to come.
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Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture by Sanford Kwinter (Paperback - September 9, 2002)
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