Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Edith doesn’t live here anymore
T2 - a story of Farnsworth House
AU - Wong, Yoke-Sum
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This is an experimental piece of writing on architecture as melancholic ruin that charts the construction of the iconic Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois through the relationship between Dr. Edith Farnsworth, and the architect, Mies van der Rohe. The aim is to engage with the Modernist spirit, its spiritual tensions between transcendental philosophy and human emotions, as well as avant-garde and kitsch through enacted and imagined conversations and narratives, pulled together through diary entries, architectural journals, fiction and other texts. What emerges in this performative piece is modernism’s darkness and the layers of history that connects us to the Tugenhadt House in Brno, the Czech Republic, and Fascist architecture.
AB - This is an experimental piece of writing on architecture as melancholic ruin that charts the construction of the iconic Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois through the relationship between Dr. Edith Farnsworth, and the architect, Mies van der Rohe. The aim is to engage with the Modernist spirit, its spiritual tensions between transcendental philosophy and human emotions, as well as avant-garde and kitsch through enacted and imagined conversations and narratives, pulled together through diary entries, architectural journals, fiction and other texts. What emerges in this performative piece is modernism’s darkness and the layers of history that connects us to the Tugenhadt House in Brno, the Czech Republic, and Fascist architecture.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781137305855
BT - The inhabited ruins of Central Europe
A2 - Gafijczuk, Dariusz
A2 - Sayer, Derek
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Basingstoke
ER -