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Landscape Modernism Renounced : the Career of Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979).

Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became alarmed by the destructive forces of Post-war reconstruction. Between the 1950s and the 1970s he was in the forefront of the movement to save t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacques, David
Otros Autores: Woudstra, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table ofContents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword; 1 Prolegomena; Part I Biography; 2 Britain; 3 America; Part II Landscape and urbanism; 4 A technique for the twentieth century; 5 Landscape design; 6 Civic art and design; 7 From Wisley to A World with a View: the metamorphosis of a landscape architect; Annex A: Brief biographical facts; Annex B: Tunnard's principal landscape designs; Annex C: Tunnard's writings; Annex D: Bibliography; Index