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Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Corporate Author: Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology
Other Authors: Levine, Neil, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Series:Princeton monographs in art and archaeology.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Architecture, Modern > 20th century.
Architecture > United States.
Architectural criticism.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture > 20e siècle.
Architecture > États-Unis.
Critique d'architecture.
architectural criticism.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
Architecture
Architectural criticism
Architecture, Modern
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • Machinery, materials and men
  • Style in industry
  • The passing of the cornice
  • The cardboard house
  • The tyranny of the skyscraper
  • The city.

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