Modern Architecture - Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

Zusatztext ""Exuberant, confessedly romantic, insistently individualistic, at times even florid and rhetorical, [ Modern Architecture ] is still (and I say it, who fought my rising enthusiasm at every turn of a page) the very best book on modern architecture that exists." ---Catherine Bauer, New Republic Informationen zum Autor Neil Levine , the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, is the author of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (Princeton). Klappentext "Modern concepts concerning an organic architecture, from the work of Frank Lloyd Wright" on lining-papers. Zusammenfassung A polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. It moves from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to applications in the fields of architecture and urbanism at broadening scales. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION PREFACE CHAPTER 1: MACHINERY! MATERIALS AND MEN CHAPTER 2: STYLE IN INDUSTRY CHAPTER 3: THE PASSING OF THE CORNICE CHAPTER 4: THE CARDBOARD HOUSE CHAPTER 5: THE TYRANNY OF THE SKYSCRAPER CHAPTER 6: THE CITY

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Frank Lloyd Wright
With a new introduction by Neil Levine

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright
• Mitarbeit: Neil Levine (Einführung)
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.07.2008
• EAN: 9780691129372
• ISBN: 978-0-691-12937-2
• Seiten: 208
• Abmessung: 210 mm x 272 mm x 18 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Architektur; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / General