Delayed objectives: Rewriting modern architecture since 1900 = Objetivos postergados: reescribir la arquitectura moderna desde 1900
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https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2022.4987Keywords:
Arquitectura moderna, Historia, Historiografía, William J.R. Curtis, Revisión, Modern architecture, History, Historiography, RevisionAbstract
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El proceso de concepción, escritura y revisión de La arquitectura moderna desde 1900 podría ser objecto de un estudio interesante según William J.R. Curtis. Después de la publicación de la primera edición (1982), apareció una segunda (1987) con un prefacio y capítulo al final sobre la arquitectura reciente. En la tercera edición (1996), el contenido sufrió una revisión y expansión; una integración de nuevas investigaciones en su discurso narrativo sin precedentes en la historiografía de la arquitectura moderna. Aunque la arquitectura moderna de países fuera de Europa y los Estados Unidos ya aparecía en la primera edición, no es hasta la tercera que Curtis cumple con su objetivo de mostrar el significado de la arquitectura moderna en partes remotas del mundo. Este artículo presenta la historia de la escritura del libro y propone analizar los cambios introducidos como objetivos que Curtis cumplió con un retraso de quince años.
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The process of the conception, writing and revising of Modern Architecture Since 1900 would make an interesting study, according to William J.R. Curtis. After the first edition published in 1982, a second edition appeared in 1987 with a preface and an addendum on recent architecture. In the third edition (1996), the content was massively revised and expanded; an unusual integration of new findings into the overall synthesis. Although modern architecture in countries outside of central Europe and the United States already appeared in the first edition of the book, it is not until the third that Curtis fulfilled the objective to show what modern architecture may mean in remote parts of a rapidly changing world. This essay presents the story of the writing of the book and reflects on the changes introduced in the third edition understanding them as objectives that Curtis achieved with a delay of fifteen years.
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