UID:
kobvindex_INT0001123
Format:
360 pages :
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richly illustrated (black & white), plans ;
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21 x 15 cm.
Edition:
Revised and enlarged edition, 2nd edition.
ISBN:
9780500202012 (pbk.)
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050020201X (pbk.)
Series Statement:
World of art
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "This acclaimed survey of 20th-century architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: previous edition published 1980.
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MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- PART I: CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS AND PREDISPOSING TECHNIQUES 1750-1939 : Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical architecture 1750-1900 -- Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800-1909 -- Technical transformations: structural engineering 1775-1939 -- PART II: A CRITICAL HISTORY 1836-1967 : News from Nowhere: England 1836-1924 -- Adler and Sullivan: the Auditorium and the high rise 1886-95 -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the myth of the Prairie 1890-1916 -- Structural Rationalism and the influence of Viollet-Ie-Duc: Gaudí, Horta, Guimard and Berlage 1880-1910 -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School 1896-1916 -- The Sacred Spring: Wagner, Olbrich and Hoffmann 1886-1912 -- Antonio Sant'Elia and Futurist architecture 1909-14 -- Adolf Loos and the crisis of culture 1896-1931 -- Henry van de Velde and the abstraction of empathy 1895-1914 -- Tony Garnier and the Industrial City 1899-1918 -- Auguste Perret: the evolution of Classical Rationalism 1899-1925 -- The Deutsche Werkbund 1898-1927 -- The Glass Chain: European architectural Expressionism 1910-25 -- The Bauhaus: the evolution of an idea 1919-32 -- The New Objectivity: Germany, Holland and Switzerland 1923-33 -- De Stijl: the evolution and dissolution of Neo-Plasticism 1917-31 -- Le Corbusier and the Esprit Nouveau 1907-31 -- Mies van der Rohe and the significance of fact 1921-33 -- The New Collectivity: art and architecture in the Soviet Union 1918-32 -- Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse 1928-46 -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Disappearing City 1929-63 -- Alvar Aalto and the Nordic tradition: National Romanticism and the Doricist sensibility 1895-1957 -- Giuseppe Terragni and the architecture of Italian Rationalism 1926-43 -- Architecture and the State: ideology and representation 1914-43 -- Le Corbusier and the monumentalization of the vernacular 1930-60 -- Mies van der Rohe and the monumentalization of technique 1933-67 -- The Eclipse of the New Deal: Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn 1934-64 -- PART III: CRITICAL ASSESSMENT AND EXTENSION INTO THE PRESENT 1925-84 : The International Style: theme and variations 1925-65 -- New Brutalism and the architecture of the Welfare State: England 1949-59 -- The vicissitudes of ideology: CIAM and Team X, critique and counter-critique 1928-68 -- Place, Production and Scenography: international theory and practice since 1962 -- Critical Regionalism: modern architecture and cultural identity -- Acknowledgments -- Select bibllography -- Index.
Language:
English
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