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Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Description: Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past
Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past
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Aalto, Alvar, 2, 40, 80
Ackerman, James 182
Adams, Henry, 47
aeon, 77
aesthēsis, 97
Afrofuturism, 184–85
age value, 106
Albers, Anni, 82, 98
“Constructing Textiles,” 101
“Design: Anonymous and Timeless,” 99
“Early Techniques of Thread Interlacing,” 100
Museum of Modern Art, retrospective at, 81
On Weaving, 97
Open Letter, 98
“Pliable Plane, The” 111–13
“Work with Material,” 97, 113–14
Albers, Josef, 82
“Art as Experience,” 90–91
Black Mountain School, 34, 81
Collaborative Design Problem class, 108–10
“Concerning Art Instruction,” 97
“Creative Education,” 33, 91
“Educational Value of Manual Work and Handicraft, The,” 110–11
“Historisch oder Jetzig?,” 90
“Homage to the Square,” 147
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 81
photo-collages of, 93, 94
Structural Constellation series, 92, 92, 109, 109
Vorkurs, 33, 89
“Werklicher Formunterricht,” 33, 90, 91, 97
Yale curriculum and, 88–90
American Institute of Architects, Boston conference of, 151–52
anti-materialism, 97
anti-modernism, 47
Archipenko, Alexander, 82, 110
Architects Committee of the National Council of American–Soviet Friendship, 86
Architectural Research Group, 105
Arendt, Hannah, 2, 176
Arlow, Jacob A., 170
art nouveau, 87
Arts and Crafts movement, 87
Ashbee, C. R., 37
Aspen Design Conference, 122–23
Asplund, Gunnar, 40
atavistic echo, 132
aura, 47, 73–74
Austin, Henry, 61, 61
autotelic, 77
Bachelard, Gaston, 176
Badiou, Alain, 2–3
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 51, 174
Baldessari, John, 147
Banham, Reynar, 142–43
baroque, 76–80
Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 33, 82, 107
Baudelaire, Charles, 71–72
Bauhaus, 7, 81, 87, 90, 172
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (BAID), 8
Beaux-Arts, 7, 12, 24, 27, 30, 33, 42, 68, 82, 104, 122
Bell, Clive, 116
Benjamin, Walter, 73, 76, 78
Bergson, Henri, 36, 48, 70, 72, 90, 96, 132
Betsky, Aaron, 59
Black Lives Matter, 184
Blake, Casey Nelson, 15
Bloch, Marc, 76
Bloom, Harold, 11–12, 179–81
Borromini, Francesco, 78–79
Brancusi, Constantin, 80
Breuer, Marcel, 88, 105
Brooks, Cleanth, 11, 177
Brooks, Turner, 181, 182
Brooks, Van Wyck, 15
Brown, Denise Scott, 180, 181
Bunshaft, Gordon, 153
Cassirer, Ernst, 2, 93–94
caves, 153, 158, 171, 174
Chicago pragmatists, 59
Chicago Tribune competition, 37, 38, 47, 57
Chillman, Helen, 10
chronophobia, 16, 51, 118–19, 175–79
chronotopos, 51, 174
Clark, Michael D., 47
Clarke, Gilmore D., 125
cognitive architecture, 105–11
collective memory, 176
Collegiate Gothic style, 21, 43–44, 50–51, 55, 120, 149
Columbia University, 25, 35, 47–48, 50, 52–53, 88, 93, 105
Congrès Internationaux Architecture Moderne (CIAM), 123
constituent facts, 18, 41
contemporary history, 19
Corn, Wanda M., 14
Cram, Ralph Adams, 28, 32, 48, 63–65, 68, 137
Cranbrook, 7, 40, 133
d’Ors, Eugenio, 77–78
Daseinsform, 93, 95
Degenerate Art exhibition, 83
Denkkollektiv, 2
Denkstil, 118
Dewey, John, 27–28, 59–60, 90
Dreier, Katherine S., 33, 82–83, 83, 109–10
Duchamp, Marcel, 9, 82, 87
Dudok, W. M., 135–36
durée, 13, 36, 41, 72, 131–32
Einstein, Albert, 18–19, 72
élan vital, 48, 70
Eliot, T. S., 13–15, 100
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 158, 27–28
eternity, 15, 73, 74, 106, 118
Federal style, 3, 5, 53
Floyd, George, 184
Focillon, Henri, 8, 47, 68–80, 69, 72, 74, 106
“À nos amis d’Amérique,” 74–75
“Art Populaire,” 70–71
Department of the History of Art, 68
Embouchure de l’oder à quimper, 73, 73
La vie des forms, 8, 68, 70
USA, 74, 75
Fogg method, 31
formalism, 7–11
art historical, 7–9, 14, 30, 130, 168–69
literary, 11–12, 14, 179–80
form-migration, 131
form sense, 151
French, Robert Dudley, 4–6
French Annales school, 76
Freud, Sigmund, 16, 18, 74, 170, 172, 182
Freyssinet, Eugène, 34, 124, 127
Fuller, Buckminster, 42, 111, 112
Gesamtkunstwerk, 85, 87, 133
Gestalltungskraft, 80
Giedion Sigfried
“Art[,] a Fundamental Experience,” 171
Eternal Present, The, 183
Forty Thousand Years of Modern Art, 170–71
Modern Exhibition—Painting and Architecture, 85–86
Space, Time and Architecture, 17–18, 19, 78, 85–86, 117, 150
Trowbridge Lectures, 41
Goethe, Wolfgang von, 44–48, 152
Goldberger, Paul, 53
Goldhagen, Sarah Williams, 106
Gothic, 3–4, 20, 44–65 See also Collegiate Gothic
Greenberg, Clement, 99–100, 177
Griswold, Alfred Whitney, 116, 138–39, 161–62
Gropius, Walter, 16, 88, 105, 107, 147, 149–50, 179
Hadrian, 138, 173, 173, 175
Halbwachs, Maurice, 176
Hale, William Harlan, 62–63, 62, 64, 68, 134
Hamilton, George Heard, 82–83, 86
Hamlin, Talbot Faulkner, 47
Harkness, Edward S., 52
Harkness, Louise Hale, 139
Harkness Hoot, 21, 62–63, 62, 64
Hartman, Geoffrey, 155
Hartog, François, 3, 183
Harvard University, 13, 18–19, 31–32, 35, 88–89, 116–17, 130, 149–51
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 12, 78
Heidegger, Martin, 176, 183
Hicks, Sheila, 81, 93, 94
historical reflectivity, 8, 12–16
historicist architecture, 47, 69
historicism, 30, 134
historical facts, 15, 18–19, 65, 70–71, 75, 120, 131
historical imagination, 11–21
historical memory, 15–17, 138, 172
historical precedents, use of, 8, 15, 122, 127, 128, 156–57, 176
historical reflectivity, 8, 12–16
historical sense, 13–14
history writing, 154, 172
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 16–18, 20, 107, 37, 135, 154–55, 178
“The Decline of Architecture,” 17
Modern Architecture, 16, 17, 37, 135
Hood, Raymond, 37–39, 38
Howe, George, 11, 39, 105, 109, 115–16
Howells, John Mead, 37, 38
Hudnut, Joseph, 89, 105, 150
humanities, 8, 15, 25, 28, 91, 115. See also liberal arts
imagination, 30
imaginative beholding, 31
imitation, 35, 40
impurities of time, 1, 14
individuation, 174
James, William, 32
Jarzombek, Mark, 31
Jefferson, Thomas, 124–25
Johnson, Philip, 87, 119, 158, 167, 169, 172–73, 173, 175
Jones, Jason B., 172
Jung, Carl, 170–76, 181
Kahn, Ely Jacques, 51–52, 63, 124
Kahn, Louis I., 108, 109
American Society of Planners and Architects, 105
Architectural Research Group, 105
“Architecture Is the Thoughtful Making of Spaces,” 114
Art in America, 173–74, 175
Aspen Design Conference, 122–23
Collaborative Design Problem class, 108–9
“Monumentality,” 105–6, 106
National Center for UNESCO, 107–8, 108
“New Architecture and City Planning, The,” 105
“On the Responsibility of the Architect,” 119
“Order and Form,” 114
Trenton Bath House, 121
Yale Center for British Art, 122, 122
Yale University Art Gallery annex to, 9, 10, 105, 111–15, 112, 112, 113, 168, 173–74, 175
Kant, Immanuel, 8, 28, 93, 95
Kracauer, Siegfried, 76, 176–77
Kubler, George, 124–48
The Shape of Time, 8–9, 124, 145–48
“What Can Historians Do for Architects?,” 179
Kunstwollen, 106
Labatut, Jean, 11
Langer, Susanne, 94–96, 95, 117, 153, 171
“Art Symbol and Symbolism in Art,” 94–95
Feeling and Form, 96, 153
Martin A. Ryerson lecture, 94–95
Philosophy in a New Key, 94, 171
latency, 18, 77, 79
Latenz, 18
Latour, Bruno, 2
Lears, T. J. Jackson, 32
Le Corbusier
Columbia Lecture, drawing made during, 50
Martin A. Ryerson Lecture on Modern Architecture, 39–40
Modern Exhibition—Painting and Architecture, 84–85, 85
Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches (When the Cathedrals Were White), 15–16, 48, 49, 51
Vers une architecture, 14, 33, 40
Ville Contemporaine, 13
Lee, Richard C., 159–60, 159
Lending, Mari, 6, 167
Libera, Adalberto, 125
liberal arts, 8, 25, 28, 91, 116. See also humanities
Life magazine, 41, 125, 126, 136
longue durée, 13, 131
Machu Picchu, 130
Malraux, André, 10, 155, 156, 158
Martin A. Ryerson Lectures on Modern Architecture, 39, 40, 94, 99
Mayan art, 130
McDonald, Gail, 7
McKim, Charles, 180, 181
Medieval Academy of America, 28
medieval architecture, 30, 43, 46, 49. See also Gothic
medieval art, 45, 47, 68
medievalism, 13, 47, 167
medieval past, 16, 48, 52
medium specificity, 100
Meeks, Everett Victor, 8–9, 25, 29
Architectural Forum, 41
Architectural League of New York, 34
dual curriculum at Yale, 28–29, 33, 35
“Foreign Influences in American Architecture,” 34
“Modern Art,” 35
“The Modern Trend in Architecture,” 37
“The Place of Art in Higher Education,” 32, 33
“The Responsibility of the College,” 34
Weir Hall, 29, 29, 30
World War I Memorial, 24, 26
Mellon, Mary Conover, 170
Mellon, Paul, 140, 170
memory, vi, 15, 17, 21, 24, 75–76, 125, 137–38, 142–46, 172–76. See also historical memory
Middle Ages, 46–49
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Friedrichstrasse skyscraper project, 13
IIT, 88
Lake Shore Drive Apartments, 153
Modern Exhibition—Painting and Architecture, 84–85
Modern Architecture: International Exhibition, 107
modern Gothic, 20, 47, 57
Moholy-Nagy, László, 2, 108
Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl
The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, 159
“Environment and Anonymous Architecture,” 157
“The Future of the Past,” 122, 123, 158
Matrix of Man, 159
Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture, 142, 143, 158
montage, 13
Monuments Men, 86
Morse, Samuel F. B., 5
Mumford, Lewis, 105, 107
Museum of Modern Art, 9, 40, 81, 82, 84, 107, 110, 111
Modern Architecture: International Exhibition, 107
“What Is Happening to Modern Architecture?,” 107
National Socialism, 8, 78, 83–84
Nelson, Paul, 84–85
New Criticism, 11, 177
new traditionalists, 17–18, 37
New York Five, 181
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 12–13, 49, 51, 77–78, 90, 93, 117, 155, 158
Norton, Charles Eliot, 14–15, 31
organic architecture, 39
Orr, Douglas, 9, 168, 173–74, 175
Osborne, Peter, 3
Östberg, Ragnar, 37–39
Panofsky, Erwin, 20
Paris Match, 155
Payne, Alina, 7, 154–55
Perspecta, 11, 11, 21, 111, 113, 114–15, 119, 121, 122–23, 123, 132, 149, 158, 177
phenomenological approach, 75, 76, 79, 93
plagiarism, 125–31, 146, 157
plaster casts, 6, 10, 82, 89, 165
plastics, 108–10
Plato, 55, 157
Poelzig, Hans, 46
politics of time, 3, 184–85
polychronic, 6, 167
Pope, John Russell, 4, 4, 140
Porter, A. Kingsley, 29
Pound, Ezra, 14–15
pre-Columbian art, 93, 130
prehistoric architecture, 179
prehistoric art, 130, 170, 171
prehistory, 41, 78, 168
presentism, 14, 30
Princeton University, 28, 48, 51, 52
Proust, Marcel, 75
psychoanalysis, 170, 172, 179
Ray, Man, 82, 87
Read, Herbert, 170–71
Renaissance, 38, 49, 79, 129, 151
Review of Metaphysics, 118
Richards, J. M., 156–57
Robert A. M. Stern Architects, 184
Rogers, James Gamble
Branford College Court, 53, 54
Butler Library, 53
Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, 52
Harkness mansion, 52
Harkness Memorial Quadrangle, 53, 54
Harkness Tower, 54, 55, 57, 61
Laboratory School, University of Chicago, 59
Linonia and Brothers Reading Room, 57, 59
“Notes by the Architect,” 57
Pierson College, 5, 5
School of Education, University of Chicago, 59
Sterling Law Building, 43, 44, 53
Sterling Memorial Library, 4, 53, 55–62, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64
Wrexham Tower, 53, 54
Yale campus, 31, 52–53, 53
Rohan, Timothy, 160
Romanticism, 45
Rome, 2, 115, 139, 151–52, 167, 178
Rudolph, Paul
“Architecture: The Unending Search,” 153
Art and Architecture Building, 10, 161–67, 164, 167
“The Changing Philosophy of Architecture,” 151–52, 154
Jewett Art Center, 149, 150
“The Six Determinants of Architectural Form,” 154, 156, 156, 162
Temple Street Garage, 160, 161, 162
Ruskin, John, 31, 45, 50, 116
Saarinen, Eero
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design competition, 36
Berkshire Music Shed, 125
Cranbrook Academy of Art and School for Boys, 133, 133
David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink, 5, 138–40, 139
First Christian Church, 136, 136
Gateway Arch, 9, 126, 128, 129, 132–34, 134, 139
General Motors Technical Center, 136–38, 137
“Golden Proportions,” 129
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial design competition, entry to, 124
MIT Chapel, 138
Samuel F. B. Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, 138–43, 140, 141, 142
Victorian house, 147, 148
Womb Chair, 136
Saarinen, Eliel
The Art of Building Cities, 152
Chicago Tribune competition, 37, 38
Cranbrook Academy of Art and School for Boys, 133
First Christian Church, 136, 136
Martin A. Ryerson Lectures on Modern Architecture, 39, 40
The Search for Form in Art and Architecture, 124, 130–32, 131
Saarinen, Loja, 133
Sawyer, Charles H., 88, 104–5, 108
Scott, Geoffrey, 116, 151–53
Scully, Vincent, 169
“Archetype and Order in Recent American Architecture,” 173–74, 173, 175
“Doldrums in the Suburbs,” 178
“Four Kinds of Time in Contemporary Architecture,” 175–76
Modern Architecture, 176
“On the Responsibility of the Architect,” 119, 169
Shingle Style Today, The, 180–81, 180, 182
Semper, Gottfried, 100
Seneca Village, 185
Shakespeare, William, 12–13
significant form, 116
Sitte, Camillo, 152
1619 Project, 184
Sixth International Congress for Drawing, Art Education, and Applied Arts, 33, 90
skyscrapers, 13, 15, 39, 47, 152, 157
Smithson, Alison and Peter, 154
Smithson, Robert, 147
Snead Standard Stack, 56, 57
Société Anonyme, 9, 82–84, 84, 87–88
space-time, 18, 72, 92, 96, 145
Stam, Mart, 14
Stamp, Jimmy, 20
Stern, Robert A. M., 20, 177–78, 184
Stierli, Martino, 13
Stowell, Kenneth K., 127–28
Strasbourg Cathedral, 44
Sullivan, Louis, 16, 37, 165, 167
Swartwout, Edgerton, 29, 31, 60, 61
Taliesin Fellowship, 7
Team 10, 123
temporal constructs, 2, 20, 21, 27, 30, 90, 184, 185
temporal disorientation, 2, 51
temporal durée, 36, 41, 72, 131–32
temporal horizons, 12, 55, 69
temporal impurities, 2
temporal markers, 35, 61, 62, 76, 184
temporal registers, 11, 96
timelessness, 15, 99
Time magazine, 48, 136–38
time travel, vi, 5, 12
Tournikiotis, Panayotis, 17
Trowbridge Lectures, 40–41
usable past, 15, 20
Van Eyck, Aldo, 123
Venturi, Robert, 21, 177–78, 178, 180, 181
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, 177, 178
Trubek and Wislocki houses, 180, 181
Vogue, 147, 148
Wagner, Otto, 16
Walker, Ralph Thomas, 39, 40
Weiss, Paul, 119
“Being, Essence and Existence,”118
“Historic Time,” 118–19
“History and the Historian,” 123
“On the Difference between Actuality and Possibility,” 118
“On the Responsibility of the Architect,” 119–21
“The Past: Its Nature and Reality,” 118
“The Past: Recent Discussions,” 118
“The Perception of Stars,” 145–46
“Philosophy and Architecture,” 118
Review of Metaphysics, 118
“Time and the Absolute,” 118
Whitehead, Alfred North, 32, 116–17
Wirkungsform, 93, 95
Wittkower, Rudolf, 129, 151, 154–55, 178
Wölfflin, Heinrich, 10, 30–31
Womack, Ytasha L., 184
Wood, Christopher S., 16
Worringer, Wilhelm, 45–46
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 7, 39, 43, 132, 137, 174, 179, 276
Larkin Building, 163, 179
Martin A. Ryerson Lectures on Modern Architecture, 39–40, 43
Wright, Gwendolyn, 52
Yale Gallery of Fine Arts, 9, 29, 31, 40, 82–84, 84, 86
Yale University, campus of, 3, 4, 43, 52–53, 53, 61, 68, 105, 138, 140, 159–61
Yale University Art Gallery, exhibitions at
Modern Art from the Collection of the Société Anonyme, 83–84, 84
Modern Exhibition—Painting and Architecture, 85, 86
The Modern House Comes Alive, 87
Plastics in Art and Industry, 110, 110 See also Yale Gallery of Fine Arts
Yale University School of Fine Arts, 28, 29, 82, 83, 88
Yaneva, Albena, 16
Yates, Frances, 176
Zucker, Paul, 105–6, 108, 110
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