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A Study on the Historiography of Post War Modern Architecture - With Focus on the Theories of Sarah Goldhagen and Sol$\grave{a}$ Morales -

2차 대전 이후 근 현대건축의 다양성을 이해하는 역사적 관점에 대한 연구 - 사라 골드하겐과 솔라 모랄레스의 관점에 대한 비평을 중심으로 -

  • Received : 2012.02.25
  • Published : 2012.06.25

Abstract

Since the early 90's, historians began to document various tendencies of postwar architecture with the intention to historicize them. However, why and how those tendencies came about have not been clearly explained except for the overarching concept of postmodernism. Recently, new attempts were made to understand the diversity of postwar architecture, beyond the simple dichotomy between modernism and postmodernism. Sarah Goldhagen focused on the internal complexity and multiplicity of modern movement and their unfolding after WWII. Yet, she did not provide a historical frame to understand the emergence of diverse tendencies of contemporary architecture after 1970's. Ignasi sol$\grave{a}$ Morales saw the history of modern architecture as a discontinuous process with many crisis rather than a continuous generational process. Topography of contemporary architecture that he suggested seems a relevant approach to depict the diversity of contemporary architectural situation without a master narrative. However, both had limitation in explaining why this historical situation had occurred in the first place. This paper suggests the possibility of cognitive mapping of contemporary architecture, focusing on the origins of the crisis that modernity had brought to architecture since $19^{th}$ C.

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Supported by : 건국대학교

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