Modernism was an aesthetic project introduced as being the single frame of mind necessary to impersonate modernity’s best invention – the scientific method – which would cure the various sicknesses derived from rampant urbanization. Therefore, it is not surprising that modernism has often been confused with modernity, which is actually a project spanning 500 years. The anthology gathers a body of notes conrad-bercah has been peeling for over twenty years about some of the cultural issues reflected in American modernism and its discontents. The material has gained an ‘archaeological’ interest for the author who aims at stimulating the reader to interact with the prevailing rhetoric of the day: a relentless techno-fetishism to mask an irreversible submission to market forces that thrive on making a marketable spectacle of architectural form either by resorting to specious naturalism or deviated engineering. Or both.

 

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Modernism: an American wake.
a personal anthology: 1997-2020
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isbn 9788862425889
book series Alleli | Research
number 89
current edition 3 / 2022
first edition 3 / 2022
language English
size 14,8x21cm
pages 196
print b&w
binding paperback
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conrad-bercah is the founding director of c-b-a (www.c-ba.it), an architectural design office that has developed a variety of projects in Europe for public and private clients. His professional activity merges with the complementary activities of drawing and writing. Berlin Fragment...

conrad-bercah is the founding director of c-b-a (www.c-ba.it), an architectural design office that has developed a variety of projects in Europe for public and private clients. His professional activity merges with the complementary activities of drawing and writing. Berlin Fragments. (2019), Berlin Transfert. (2021) and Berlin Stimmung (2022) form a Berlin aesthetic trilogy on architecture and city. Other texts include bercahaus (2020), that documents the construction process of a multi level timber residential building in Berlin; Modernism. An American wake (2002) and Fogli di Architettura (2022) which provide aesthetic atlases of ideas revealed by a series of drawings investigating the mysterious relations between time and architectural form. His drawings have been exhibited in Florence (Palazzo Vecchio), Rome (casa dell’architettura, Galleria Embrice) and Milan (Spazio Arena). The architectural drawing series called the Anticity that is coming (2020) won the 2021 competition ‘La città come cultura’ held by the Triennale di Milano and the Maxxi museum in Rome.

 

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