Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer

By Michael K. Hays and K. Michael Hays

Drawing on both the work of modern theorists like Georg Luk cs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer, and more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Luk cs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Challenging much of the traditional wisdom about modernism and the avant-garde, Hays argues that a rigorously articulated "posthumanist" position was actually developed in the modernist architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. He reinterprets their buildings, projects, and writings as constructions of this new category of subjectivity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262581418
• ISBN13: 9780262581417
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher