Back to the Future: The History of Architecture Since 1889
AbstractThis roundtable discussion, organized in collaboration with the Phaidon Press, marks the recent release of Jean-Louis Cohen's The Future of Architecture Since 1889. This event brings together architectural historians to discuss this new comprehensive history of architecture as well as the writing of architectural historiography in general. Participants will include Jean-Louis Cohen, Edward Eigen, Adrian Forty, Hans Ibelings, and Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen. About the book This comprehensive history is richly illustrated not only with buildings, projects and plans, but also with publications, portraits, paintings, diagrams, film stills, and exhibitions, showing the immense diversity of architectural thought and production throughout the twentieth century. |