Advancing a Different Modernism

<p><em>Advancing a Different Modernism</em> analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Jože Plecnik (1872-1957), the book reveals the fundamental political and ideological conservatism that helped shape modernism’s history and purpose. This study thus revises the dominant view of modernism as a union of progressive forms and progressive politics. Instead, this innovative volume promotes a nuanced and critical consideration of how architecture was creatively employed to advance radically new forms and methods, while simultaneously consolidating an essentially conservative nationalist self-image.</p> <p>Table of Contents</p><p>Chapter 1: Critical and Theoretical Introduction</p><p>Chapter 2: Progressive Architecture for a Conservative Catalonia</p><p>Chapter 3: Jože Plečnik, an Idiosyncratic Slovenian Modernist</p><p>Chapter 4: Reflections on Modernism’s Complexity</p><p>Appendix</p>