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Making it modern : the history of Modernism in architecture and design / Aaron Betsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Betsky, Aaron, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Actar Publishers, [2016]
- Summary:
- Traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life, and the attempts to represent them in the construction of a modernist world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- What Modern Is
- Space Opens Up
- Staging Modernity
- A New Style of Life
- At Home in the Brave New World
- Building Like Crystals, Forms as Cold Ice
- Toward Totality
- The Human Form Endures
- Wooden Ships
- After Modernism
- Re-Modernism
- Selected readings
- Index of names
- Illustration credits.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781945150272
- 1945150270
- OCLC:
- 1245662769
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