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The liberal monument : urban design and the late modern project / Alexander D'Hooghe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Princeton Architectural Press ; Rotterdam : Berlage Institute, c2010.Edition: First editionDescription: 112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781568988245(hbk)
Other title:
  • Urban design and the late modern project
Subject(s):
Contents:
The liberal monument -- Group -- Protagonists -- Urban design -- Centers of resistance -- Liberalism as formalism -- Not program but flow between programs -- Sprawl -- The core -- Sert's core -- Polynuclearity -- Organizing distances -- A formal template for the core -- Empty space -- Platform -- Shattering and regrouping -- Maki's "master form" -- Moving beyond the totalizing ambitions of urban planning design --The "not yet" form -- Liberalism -- A romantic conception of the public -- Romantic pluralism -- Empathy -- Acropolis -- Aesthetic theory of the monument -- Symbolic form in architecture -- Giedion's symbolic forms -- Sert's symbolic forms -- Louis Kahn's symbolic forms -- A liberal monument for the new American century? -- The conversation (that never took place).
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the field now lacks, he suggests, the confidence necessary to address its most critical challengesprawl. In his provocative manifestoThe Liberal Monument, D'Hooghe argues that architecture and urbanism must boldly intervene in city planning and growth management. This strategic use of architecture represents, for him, the last hope to revitalize the "quasi-endless gray carpet" spreading between theworld's urban centers. D'Hooghe's starting point requires a reassessment of discarded, sometimes disgraced, late-modern theories of placemaking. D'Hooghe points out that the very idea of top-down urban planning and monumentalized space was jettisoned due to its commonly held associations with the monumental neoclassicism andsymbolism employed by Nazi architect and urban planner Albert Speer. D'Hooghe respectfully posits that we should not allow this perversion of thought to preclude our own thinking at the scale of urban planning.

D'Hooghe travels the world in search of experiments in urbanism and findsin the ruins of these failed utopiasa way forward. He discovers in the work of "second-generation" modernists Sigfried Giedion and Louis I. Kahn an effort to connect architecture, planning, and liberal politics. This becomes the seed for what he calls "the liberal monument."The Liberal Monument is a provocative, accessible work of theory that challenges all of the accepted truths of urban design. Its goal is to restore the confidence architecture will need, whether it is building cities from the ground up in China and Dubai or managing the growth of the sprawling suburbs of Phoenix and Raleigh/Durham.

Includes bibliographical references.

The liberal monument -- Group -- Protagonists -- Urban design -- Centers of resistance -- Liberalism as formalism -- Not program but flow between programs -- Sprawl -- The core -- Sert's core -- Polynuclearity -- Organizing distances -- A formal template for the core -- Empty space -- Platform -- Shattering and regrouping -- Maki's "master form" -- Moving beyond the totalizing ambitions of urban planning design --The "not yet" form -- Liberalism -- A romantic conception of the public -- Romantic pluralism -- Empathy -- Acropolis -- Aesthetic theory of the monument -- Symbolic form in architecture -- Giedion's symbolic forms -- Sert's symbolic forms -- Louis Kahn's symbolic forms -- A liberal monument for the new American century? -- The conversation (that never took place).

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • The Liberal Monument (p. 7)
  • Group (p. 9)
  • Protagonists (p. 10)
  • Urban Design (p. 13)
  • Centers of Resistance (p. 15)
  • Liberalism as Formalism (p. 17)
  • Not Program but Flow Between Programs (p. 21)
  • Sprawl (p. 23)
  • The Core (p. 24)
  • Sert's Core (p. 26)
  • Polynuclearity (p. 30)
  • Organizing Distances (p. 33)
  • A Formal Template for the Core (p. 35)
  • Empty Space (p. 36)
  • Platform (p. 38)
  • Shattering and Regrouping (p. 40)
  • Maki's ôMaster Formö (p. 44)
  • Moving Beyond the Totalizing Ambitions of Urban Planning Design (p. 46)
  • The ôNot Yetö Form (p. 49)
  • Liberalism (p. 52)
  • A Romantic Conception of the Public (p. 54)
  • Romantic Pluralism (p. 57)
  • Empathy (p. 61)
  • Acropolis (p. 64)
  • Aesthetic Theory of the Monument (p. 68)
  • Symbolic Form in Architecture (p. 72)
  • Giedion's Symbolic Forms (p. 75)
  • Sert's Symbolic Forms (p. 79)
  • Louis Kahn's Symbolic Forms (p. 82)
  • A Liberal Monument for the New American century? (p. 86)
  • The Conversation (That Never Took Place) (p. 89)
  • Postscript: Recent Exercises (p. 101)
  • Notes (p. 108)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 112)

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