A new history of modern architecture : art nouveau, the beaux-arts, expressionism, modernism, constructivism, art deco, classicism, brutalism, postmodernism, neo-rationalism, high tech, deconstructivism, digital futures / Colin Davies.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 500 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1786270560
- 9781786270566
- 724.6 23
- NA680 .D37 2017
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 724.6 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A540712B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-484) and index.
Introduction -- 1. Art Nouveau and Adolf Loos 2. Houses 3. National Romanticism, the New Tradition and the Beaux-Arts 4. Steel and Concrete: Pioneers and Visionaries 5. Factories 6. Expressionism 7. Dutch Modernism 8. German Modernism 9. Le Corbusier Part 1 10. Mies van der Rohe in Germany 11. Russian Constructivism 12. Wright, Schindler and Neutra 13. Art Deco and the Skyscraper 14. Modern Classicism 15. Modernism in the USA 16. Domes, Shells and Tents 17. Le Corbusier Part 2 18. Alvar Aalto and Hans Scharoun 19. Mass Housing 20. Latin American Modernism 21. Brutalism 22. Louis Kahn - Monumental Modernism 23. 'Non-Western' Influences 24. Postmodernism 25. Neo-Rationalism 26. High Tech 27. Japan 28. Deconstructivism 29. Rem Koolhaas and ОМА 30. 'The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment' Revisited 31. 'Context' and 'Materiality' 32. Digital Futures 33. China Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Picture credits
In this book, Colin Davies subjects the canonical architecture of the twentieth century to a thorough reassessment. Rather than repeating the standard wisdom, Davies questions the values and judgements that are so often the mainstay of architectural surveys, and in doing so asks: what is the importance of the style we know as Modernism.
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