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Modern architecture /

This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the period, such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined, shedding...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colquhoun, Alan, 1921-2012
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Colección:Oxford history of art.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Art Nouveau 1890-1910
  • Organicism versus classicism : Chicago 1890-1910
  • Culture and industry : Germany 1907-14
  • The urn and the chamberpot : Adolf Loos 1900-30
  • Expressionism and futurism
  • The avant-gardes in Holland and Russia
  • Return to order : Le Corbusier and modern architecture in France 1920-35
  • Weimar Germany : the dialectic of the modern 1920-33
  • From rationalism to revisionism : architecture in Italy 1920-65
  • Neoclassicism, organicism, and the welfare state : architecture in Scandinavia 1910-65
  • From Le Corbusier to megastructures : urban visions 1930-65
  • Pax Americana : architecture in America 1945-65.