Architecture After God: Babel Resurgent - Hardcover

by Kyle Dugdale (Author)

Architecture after God

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

Author Biography

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 Harvard's 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.