Towards a Dialogical History of Modern Architecture - Essays on Otherness and Canon - Jorge Francisco Liernur

Towards a Dialogical History of Modern Architecture - Essays on Otherness and Canon - Bog af Jorge Francisco Liernur - Hardback

The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add \Other\ figures to the canon, and views that reject the canon itself. Instead, it recognizes the canon's significance in comprehending architecture, while seeking to uncover its presumed Western-centric integrity through a shift from a monological to a dialogical approach.This approach integrates..