Vernacular Modernism

Maiken Umbach teaches modern European history at the University of Manchester (UK). She is the author of Federalism and Enlightenment in Germany, 1740-1806 (2000) and German Federalism: Past, Present, Future (2002). Bernd Huppauf is Professor of German at New York University. Among his numerous publications in German and English are Globalization and the Future of German (2004), Skepsis und literarische Einbildungskraft (2003), War, Violence, and the Modern Condition (1997).

"The volume's broad geographic scope and inventive exploration of diverse vernacular expressions will convince readers that modernization and modernism were far more open-ended and heterogeneous than previously acknowledged."—H-Net Reviews

• CONTENTS Introduction: Vernacular Modernism000 Bernd Huppauf and Maiken Umbach 1.Modernism and the Vernacular at the Museum of Modern Art, New York 000 Mardges Bacon 2. At Home in the Ironic Imagination: The Rational Vernacular and Spectacular Texts000 Mike Saler 3.Spaces of the Vernacular: Ernst Bloch's Philosophy of Hope and the Hometown000 Bernd Huppauf 4.The Deutscher Werkbund , Globalization, and the Invention of Modern Vernaculars000 Maiken Umbach 5.The Modern, the Vernacular and Le Corbusier000 Francesco Passanti 6.The Vernacular, Memory and Architecture000 Stanford Anderson 7.The Vernacular in Place and Time: Relocating History in Post-Soviet Cities 000 John Czaplicka Epilogue: Critical Regionalism Revisited--Reflections in the Mediatory Potential of the Built Form000 Kenneth Frampton Notes Index