Benjamin’s Dialectical Image and the Textuality of the Built Landscape

In The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin describes the architectural expression of nineteenth century Paris as a dialectical manifestation of backwards-looking historicism and the dawn of modern industrial production (in the form of cast iron and mass produced plate glass). Yet in the same text, Benj...

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Main Author: Ross Lipton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: TU Delft OPEN Publishing 2016-04-01
Series:Footprint
Online Access:https://ojs-libaccp.tudelft.nl/index.php/footprint/article/view/961
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