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Architectures (eBook, PDF)

Modernism and After

Redaktion: Ballantyne, Andrew

Beschreibung

Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment.

• Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment.
• Presents crucial "moments" in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances.
• Provides a view of architectural history as a part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social and cultural imperatives.
• Part of the New Interventions in Art History Series, which is published in conjunction with the Association of Art Historians.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 1.16MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Andrew Ballantyne is Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of Architecture, Landscape and Liberty: Richard Payne Knight and the Picturesque (1997), What is Architecture? (2002), and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2002).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470777343
• Artikelnr.: 38210224

Rezensionen

"This collection of stimulating essays delights in the variety anddiversity of modern architecture through differing processes ofstory telling and the analysis of facts. This is a book for thereader able to embrace plurality. Those who seek a singular visionwill need to look elsewhere." Robert Tavernor, University ofBath

"Wide-ranging and original, this collection offers fresh newperspectives on architecture and its histories within the expandedarena of cultural studies. It suggests the many roles thatbuildings can play in the conscious and unconscious lives of humanbeings." Alice Friedman, Wellesley College