Architecture after God: Babel Resurgent

Architecture after the Death of God

What has been the impact on architecture of the event Nietzsche called the death of God? What building exemplifies the impact of this metaphysical upheaval on the physical constructions of modernity?

Uriel Birnbaum’s fable in which an emperor commissions an architect to build heaven on earth, Peter Sloterdijk’s architectural critique, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, the historical events of the 20th century, and other intellectual approaches form the starting points for a critical reflection on early modernism, with which Dugdale invites us to rethink this era.

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Critical reappraisal of early modernism

Based on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum

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