Architecture after God: Babel Resurgent

Kyle Dugdale

Published by Birkhäuser 2023

Architecture after God

Babel Resurgent

Kyle Dugdale

In the series Exploring Architecture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035625028

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Architecture after God

A vivid retelling of the biblical story of Babel leads from the contested site of Babylon to the soaring towers of the modern metropolis, and sets the bright hopes of early modernism against the shadows of gathering war. Dealing in structural metaphor, utopian aspiration, and geopolitical ambition, Dugdale exposes the inexorable architectural implications of the event described by Nietzsche as the death of God.

The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics.

Critical reappraisal of early modernism
Based on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum
New volume in the Exploring Architecture series

Author / Editor information

Kyle Dugdale teaches history, theory, and design at Yale School of Architecture. He holds an undergraduate degree from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a professional degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and a doctoral degree from Yale. A resident of New York City and a licensed architect, he has also taught at Columbia and at the City College of New York. He is a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. His research has been supported by the Society of Architectural Historians, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and his work has been published in journals including Perspecta, Thresholds, Utopian Studies, and Wolkenkuckucksheim.

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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Architekturforschende, Architektur- und Kunsthistoriker:innen, Architetecture Researcher, Architecture- and Art Historians
Pages
- Main content: 440
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 218
Keywords: Tower of Babel; Theory; History; Architecture vision; Friedrich Nietzsche; Paradise; Research; Uriel Birnbaum; Peter Sloterdijk

eBook

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783035625028

Hardcover

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783035624991