A vivid retelling of the biblical story of Babel leads from the contested site of Babylon to the soaring towers of the modern metropolis, and sets the bright hopes of early modernism against the shadows of gathering war. Dealing in structural metaphor, utopian aspiration, and geopolitical ambition, Dugdale exposes the inexorable architectural implications of the event described by Nietzsche as the death of God.

The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics.

Critical reappraisal of early modernism
Based on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum
New volume in the Exploring Architecture series

About Kyle Dugdale

Kyle Dugdale teaches history, theory, and design at Yale School of Architecture. He holds an undergraduate degree from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a professional degree from Harvards Graduate School of Design, and a doctoral degree from Yale. A resident of New York City and a licensed architect, he has also taught at Columbia and at the City College of New York. He is a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. His research has been supported by the Society of Architectural Historians, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and his work has been published in journals including Perspecta, Thresholds, Utopian Studies, and Wolkenkuckucksheim.

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Sku

NGR9783035624991

ISBN 13

9783035624991

ISBN 10

3035624992

Title

Architecture after God: Babel Resurgent by Kyle Dugdale

Author

Kyle Dugdale

Series

Exploring Architecture

Condition

New

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Birkhauser

Year published

2023-01-30

Number of pages

440

Prizes

N/A

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