Montage and the Metropolis :Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space

4.17 ( 6 Ratings by Goodreads)
Montage and the Metropolis

Montage and the Metropolis :Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space

(Author)
4.17 (6 Ratings by Goodreads)
paperback
Published: 27 August, 2019
Standard worldwide delivery by Wed, July 15 - Mon, July 20
Order within 0
Condition: NEW
$49.33
Price includes shipping
Available 5 in stock
- +
Add to basket Wishlist This
FREE Returns within 30 days
More Details

Popular Books by Martino Stierli

View All Books by Martino Stierli
Toward a Concrete Utopia
Toward a Concrete Utopia
Martino Stierli
$63.46 $63.57
New
Add to basket
Casa Wabi Revised Edition
Casa Wabi Revised Edition
Martino Stierli
$48.25 $59.60
New
Add to basket
Complexity and Contradiction at fifty
Complexity and Contradiction at fifty
Martino Stierli
$37.82 $46.35
New
Add to basket
The Songyang Story
The Songyang Story
Martino Stierli
$41.08 $46.35
New
Add to basket
Las Vegas Studio
Las Vegas Studio
Martino Stierli
$27.06 $33.11
New
Add to basket
Eyes That Saw
Eyes That Saw
Martino Stierli
$44.74 $59.60
New
Add to basket
Participation in Art and Architecture
Participation in Art and Architecture
Martino Stierli
$230.56
New
Add to basket
Participation in Art and Architecture
Participation in Art and Architecture
Martino Stierli
$44.14
New
Add to basket
Serge Fruehauf - Extra Normal
Serge Fruehauf - Extra Normal
Martino Stierli
$35.31 $46.35
New
Add to basket
Maison de la Chine
Maison de la Chine
Martino Stierli
$26.67 $33.11
New
Add to basket

Description

Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this groundbreaking new work, Martino Stierli charts the history of montage in late 19th‑century urban and architectural contexts, its application by the early 20th‑century avant‑gardes, and its eventual appropriation in the postmodern period. With chapters focusing on photomontage, the film theories of Sergei Eisenstein, Mies van der Rohe’s spatial experiments, and Rem Koolhaas’s use of literary montage in his seminal manifesto Delirious New York (1978), Stierli demonstrates the centrality of montage in modern explorations of space, and in conceiving and representing the contemporary city. Beautifully illustrated, this interdisciplinary book looks at architecture, photography, film, literature, and visual culture, featuring works by artists and architects including Mies, Koolhaas, Paul Citroen, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, El Lissitzky, and Le Corbusier.
See more

More Details

Type Book
ISBN13 9780300248340
ISBN10 0300248342
Number Of Pages 320
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Yale University Press
Format paperback
See More +

Media Reviews

“An impressive and excellent work of scholarship.”—Peter Sealy, JSAH

“Through words, and 157 wonderfully curated images, Stierli describes the arrival of montage as a (and possibly the) dominant shaper of modernity, deftly charting its rise and multiple appearances through the avant-garde, architecture and cinema.”—Simon von Wolkenstein, Architectural Theory Review

“With elegant prose and excellent illustrations, Stierli reconciles erudition and clarity to explain the confluence of architecture, photography, film, and the visual arts in the crucible of modernity”— Luis Fernández-Galiano, Arquitectura Viva

Finalist for the 2019 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize

Listed on Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles List for 2019
 

“A stunning, complex reassessment of architectural modernism, recast in its very essence through lucid discussions of significant relationships like Mies van der Rohe and Dada, and Eisenstein and Constructivism.”—Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

"Montage and the Metropolis is a substantial achievement. The author provides an elegant and compelling history of architectural montage in modernism, with a provocative extension to the postmodern.”—Claire Zimmerman, author of Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century

“Montage and the Metropolis is a landmark contribution to our understanding of how modern architecture emerged in dialogue with film, photography, and the visual arts.”—Edward Dimendberg, author of Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images

Show more

GoodReads Reviews

Author's Bio

Martino Stierli is Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.

Show more