Review:Lane, Barbara. 1968. Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-45. Boston: Harvard University Press.

Lane tried to answer the following question:“why the Nazi regime repudiated some types of art and endorsed others?” and how“to understand the reasons for the great significance of the visual arts in the cultural program of the new government?” And Lane’s argument is that “Nazis exercised control over architectural style not simply because it was…

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Review:Heynen, Hilde. 2000. Architecture and Modernity: A Critique. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Borrowing definitions of modern, modernity and modern movement from Berman, Heynen aimed to clarify several aspects of modern architecture that correspond to societal conditions brought about modernity. Methodologically, she tried to discuss architecture, in particular the problem of dwelling that embodied modern architecture’s social aim, from the perspective of critical theory and link it to…

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