With this new revised and updated edition, A modernidade superada—a collection of nine essays by Catalan theorist Josep Maria Montaner—reaffirms its role as a fundamental reference for understanding the modern movement in architecture. Through autonomous yet complementary texts, the author reflects on central concepts of the period's production, such as rationalism, the attitude of rupture, expressiveness, and technological, functional, and symbolic paradoxes. The result is a mosaic of arguments demonstrating how the shortcomings of modernity were overcome—particularly in Nordic countries, Mediterranean Europe, and Latin America (with numerous references to Brazilian production), as well as other peripheral contexts—giving way to new lines of thought and forms of expression tied to new contexts.
About the author: Josep Maria Montaner is an architect, writer, and professor at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC). He has been a visiting professor at various universities across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, and served as the Councilor for Housing for the city of Barcelona (2015–2019). He is the author of books translated into several languages, such as Política e arquitetura: por um urbanismo do comum e ecofeminista (2021), co-authored with Zaida Muxí, and Arquitetura e crítica (2022), both published by Olhares, and he writes regularly for architectural journals.
Translation: Esther Pereira da Silva and Carlos Muñoz Gallego,
Translation of "Prologue to the current edition" and "The fragility of modern architecture" by Alícia Duarte Penna
Copyediting: Fernanda Alvares
ISBN: 9786588280744
Pages: 176
Cover: Paperback
