Modern Architecture

Name: Modern Architecture
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780192842268
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ISBN: 9780192842268

by Alan Colquhoun

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Oxford History of Art

ISBN-10 0192842269

ISBN-13 9780192842268

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 25th, 2002

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 486 grams

Dimensions 23.80 x 16.90 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 Art Nouveau Modernism Art & design styles: Art Nouveau Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus History of art History of art Architecture

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Presents an account of international modernism, exploring the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assessing its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined, shedding light on their roles as acknowledged masters.

This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters.Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the often contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition.

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