Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture of Hannes
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This text draws both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer and on the more recent poststructuralist thought to create a new method of reading architectural production. The author argues that a rigorously articulated "posthumanist" position was actually developed in the modernist architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. The book reinterprets their buildings, projects and writings as constructions of this new category of subjectivity.
Author: K. Michael Hays (Harvard University)
Format: Paperback, 346 pages, 152mm x 226mm, 635 g
Published: 1995, MIT Press Ltd, United States
Genre: Architecture
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This text draws both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer and on the more recent poststructuralist thought to create a new method of reading architectural production. The author argues that a rigorously articulated "posthumanist" position was actually developed in the modernist architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. The book reinterprets their buildings, projects and writings as constructions of this new category of subjectivity.
Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture of Hannes