The Relationship Between Techniques of Architectonic Representation and Avant-Garde Speculation in the Twentieth Century

Based on a historical review of twentieth century architectural criticism and avant-garde mo - vements, with a special emphasis on the methods of representation of each period, this arti - cle examines the work of Rem Koolhaas, one of the most important architects of recent de - cades. By understand...

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Main Author: Campos Delgado, Magdalena Picazzo Sanchez, David
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2020
Online Access:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/72897
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Summary:Based on a historical review of twentieth century architectural criticism and avant-garde mo - vements, with a special emphasis on the methods of representation of each period, this arti - cle examines the work of Rem Koolhaas, one of the most important architects of recent de - cades. By understanding his early approach to architecture, expressed in his thesis Exodus, Or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, as a response to the contradictions of modernity and fetishes of postmodernity, we can then understand his second period, exemplified by oma’s cctv building.