Author(s)
Klein RudolfKeywords
ModernismIslam
Buddhism
Judaism
Albert Einstein
Architecture
NA1-9428
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
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This paper investigates the links between some oriental cosmologies and modern architecture, stemming from major non-Western religions, such as Buddhism, Islam and Judaism as well as from Einstein’s theories. It analyses both the direct impact of these concepts, influencing modernism at a theoretical level, and their indirect impact through historic non-Western architecture, mainly Buddhist and Islamic. While modernist theoreticians and architects frequently emphasised functional and technical priorities of modernism, I argue that modernism was far less rational than it is commonly thought, and that it was substantially influenced by non-Western thought, particularly in its early period.Date
2014-07-01Type
ArticleIdentifier
oai:doaj.org/article:efafa8fd8b084e6d8b75ec14cf48832f2064-2520
10.2478/jbe-2014-0001
https://doaj.org/article/efafa8fd8b084e6d8b75ec14cf48832f