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Mediating modernism : architectural cultures in Britain / Andrew Higgott.

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Fine Arts Library NA2599.5 .H54 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Higgott, Andrew.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Architectural criticism--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Architectural criticism.
Architecture, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern.
Philosophy.
Architecture--Great Britain--20th century.
Architecture.
History.
Great Britain.
Physical Description:
viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Contents:
Making it new : the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain
The mission of modernism : James Richards and the Architectural review
The forgetting of art : the Abercrombie Plan for post-war London
The shift to the specific : the new interpretation of materiality in brutalism and the functional tradition
The opposite of architecture : Archigram and Architectural design in the 1960s
Searching for the subject : Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School
Architecture as discourse : rethinking the culture of architecture.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-211) and index.
ISBN:
041540178X
0415401771
OCLC:
64624962

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