Ornament as Crisis: Architecture, Design, and Modernity in Hermann Broch's the Sleepwalkers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810131897)

Ornament as Crisis explores the ways in which the novels of Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers (Schlafwandler) trilogy participate in and employ the history of architecture and architectural theory.

Beginning with the visual and architectural experiences of the figures in each novel, Sarah McGaughey analyzes the role of architecture in the trilogy as a whole, while discussing work by Broch's contemporaries on architecture. She argues that The Sleepwalkers allows us to better understand how literature responds and contributes to social, theoretical, and spatial concepts of architecture. Ornament as Crisis guides readers through the spaces of Broch's mdernist masterpiece and the architectural debates of his time.

Author: Sarah McGaughey
ISBN-10: 0810131897
ISBN-13: 9780810131897
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2016
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d