Reclaiming Modernity: Essays on a Paradoxical Nostalgia

by Larry Bennett

Why do we seek to return to the past or rescue pieces of the past that may have value in the present? Why does nostalgia attach to an approach to the world, social rules, and material products that willfully rejected the past?

Larry Bennett explores the complexities of nostalgia with considerations of the historic preservation of brutalist architecture, specifically Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago; the memoirs and recollections...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252046404
• ISBN13: 9780252046407
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 200 Pages