Harry Francis Mallgrave

Modern Architectural Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1298g
• ISBN-13: 9780521130486
• ISBN-10: 0521130484
• Artikelnr.: 26552585

Autorenporträt

Harry Mallgrave is Associate Professor of History and Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. His 1996 book Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prelude
2. The enlightenment and neoclassical theory
3. British theory in the eighteenth century
4. Neoclassicism and historicism
5. The rise of German theory
6. Competing directions at midcentury
7. Historicism in the United States
8. The arts and crafts movement
9. Excursus on a few of the conceptual foundations of twentieth-century German modernism
10. Modernism 1889-1914
11. European modernism 1917-1933
12. American modernism 1917-1934
13. Depression, war, and aftermath 1934-1958
14. Challenges to modernism in Europe 1959-1967
15. Challenges to modernism in America
Epilogue.