Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction: Vernacular Modernism 1
5. 1. Modernism and the Vernacular at the Museum of Modern Art, New York 25
6. 2. At Home in the Ironic Imagination: The Rational Vernacular and Spectacular Texts 53
7. 3. Spaces of the Vernacular: Ernst Bloch's Philosophy of Hope and the German Hometown 84
8. 4. The Deutscher Werkbund, Globalization, and the Invention of Modern Vernaculars 114
9. 5. The Vernacular, Modernism, and Le Corbusier 141
10. 6. The Vernacular, Memory and Architecture 157
11. 7. The Vernacular in Place and Time: Relocating History in Post-Soviet Cities 172
12. Epilogue: Critical Regionalism Revisited: Reflections on the Mediatory Potential of Built Form 193
13. Notes 199
14. Subject Index 253
15. Index of Names 261