Do past, present, and future coexist? Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen’s Untimely Moderns takes on the complicated task of unpacking how the study of time and history shaped modern architecture by considering the words, work, and teaching of an assemblage of creators and thinkers associated with Yale University in the twentieth century. Pelkonen uses the word “untimely” as a nod to the intellectual legacy of questioning linear historical time, and the impact it had on twentieth-century artistic and intellectual culture. Pelkonen is assistant dean and professor of architecture at Yale University and brings this insight to the text’s deep dive into how disciplines converged to form our popular notion of modernism. Yale’s School of Architecture looms large in the discipline of architecture, in terms of both academic and practical influence. Untimely Moderns works to explain Yale’s role in architectural thought and practice while exploring how we have come to understand modernism.
This exploration...
University of California Press