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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Colin, 1929- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Modern--20th century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architecture, Modern--21st century.
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Local Subjects:
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Architecture, Modern--20th century.
- Architecture, Modern--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 500 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Art nouveau and Adolf Loos: 1881-1930
- Houses: 1891-1911
- National romanticism, the new tradition and the beaux-arts: 1893-1923
- Steel and conrete: pioneers and visionaries: 1891-1923
- Factories: 1902-1942
- Expressionism: 1914-1941
- Dutch modernism: 1915-1931
- German modernism: 1919-1933
- Le Corbusier part 1: 1906-1932
- Mies van der Rohe in Germany: 1907-1938
- Russian constructivism: 1917-1936
- Wright, Schindler and Neutra: 1911-1938
- Art deco and the skyscraper: 1925-1939
- Modern classicism: 1923-1942
- Modernism in the USA: 1932-1972
- Domes, shells and tents: 1952-1973
- Le Corbusier part 2: 1932-1965
- Alvar Aalto and Hans Scharoun: 1924-1971
- Mass housing: 1949-1968
- Latin american modernism: 1932-1982
- Brutalism: 1954-1977
- Louis Kahn
- monumental modernism: 1953-1982
- 'Non-western' influences: 1937-1991
- Postmodernism: 1964-1990
- Neo-rationalism: 1967-1991
- High tech: 1967-1991
- Japan: 1945-2000
- Deconstructivism: 1982-1995
- Rem Koolhaas and OMA: 1991-2004
- 'The architecture of the well-tempered environment' revisited: 1973-2007
- 'Context' and 'materiality': 1963-2012
- Digital futures: 1994-2012
- China: 1911-2012.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 480-484) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 1786270560
- 9781786270566
- 9781786270573
- 1786270579
- OCLC:
- 968290430
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