Detlef Mertins - Seeing the Closed Open: Walter Benjamin and the Tectonic Unconscious

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Channel: AA School of Architecture · 2015 · Education

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Lecture date: 1996-03-05 

In response to transparency's thematization as the impossibility of pure vision, Detlef Mertins examines Walter Benjamins transformative readings of modern architectures theories and histories, focusing on Benjamins treatment of Carl B.

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