Time, history and architecture : essays on critical historiography

First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4RN 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business First issued in paperback 2020 Copyright © 2018 Gevork Hartoonian The right of Gevork Hartoonian to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hartoonian, Gevork, author. Title: Time, history and architecture : essays on critical historiography / Gevork Hartoonian. Description : New York : Routledge, 2018. I Series: Routledge research in architectural history I Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 20170234441 ISBN 9781138283510 (hardback) I ISBN 9781315270210 ~book) Subjects: LCSH: Architecture--Historiography. I Benjamin, Walter, 1892- 1940. I Semper, Gottfried, 1803-1879. Classification: LCC NA190 .H38 2018 I DOC 720.9--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017023444 ISBN: 978-1-138-28351-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-50194-5 (pbk) Typeset in Sabon by HWA Text and Data Management, London

Contents List effigures Vlll Introduction: Time and history: an introductory outline 1 1 On history 14 2 On time 30 3 On style 45 4 On baroque 66 5 On Mies 91 6 On autonomy 115 7 On brutalism: crisis postponed 130 8 On architecture and capitalism: the tale of three frames 151 9 It's time: historicism revisited 175 Index 194

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