TY - BOOK ID - 74471427 TI - Making it modern : the history of modernism in architecture and design PY - 2016 SN - 9781940291154 1940291151 PB - New York: Actar, DB - UniCat KW - Modern movement (Architecture) KW - Mouvement moderne (Architecture) KW - Design KW - Mouvement moderne (Art) KW - Architecture KW - Histoire KW - Mouvement moderne (Architecture) - Histoire KW - Design - Histoire KW - Mouvement moderne (Art) - Histoire KW - Mouvement moderne KW - 930.8 KW - 72.01 KW - 72.036 KW - Modernisme (cultuurgeschiedenis) KW - Architectuur (theorie) KW - Architectuurtheorie KW - Modernisme (architectuur) KW - 20ste eeuw (architectuur) KW - udc KW - Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74471427 AB - At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a retrospective act, one of documenting or trying to catch what has already appeared - an attempt to fix life as it is being lived. Modernity is just the very fact that we as human beings are continually remaking the world around us through our actions, and are doing so consciously. Modernism is a monument to or memory of that act, which in its own making tries to remake the world it is pretending to represent. ER -