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Modernism and the spirit of the city /

"This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From locus genii to heart of the city : embracing the spirit of the city / Volker M. Welter
  • Straight or crooked streets? The contested rational spirit of the modern metropolis / David Frisby
  • August Endell : the spirit and the beauty of the city / Helge David
  • Embodying the spirit of the metropolis : the Warenhaus Wertheim, Berlin, 1896-1904 / Helen Shiner
  • The Hamburg Bismarck as city crown and national monument / Karen Lang
  • The lantern and the glass : on the themes of renewal and dwelling in Le Corbusier's Purist art and architecture / Dagmar Motycka Weston
  • 'Cities more fair to become the dwelling place of Thy children' : transcendent modernity in British urban reconstruction / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
  • Privet : theologies of privacy in some modernist urbanism / Rob Stone
  • Rudolf Schwarz, the Hochstadt, and the reconstruction of Cologne / Rudolf Stegers.