Synopsis
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.
Biography
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). Architectures: Modernism and Afterdownload دانلود ,كتاب eBooks , از گروه Art and Humanities فرهنگ و هنر كتابخانه اينترنتي دانش گستران جوان You Research From the Publisher
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. Architectures: Modernism and Afterdownload دانلود ,كتاب eBooks , از گروه Art and Humanities فرهنگ و هنر كتابخانه اينترنتي دانش گستران جوان You Research Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Editor's Preface
Preface
Introduction: Architectures in the Plural 1
1 An Avant-garde Academy 33
2 Aalto and the Tutelary Goddesses 57
3 Becoming-skyscraper: Ayn Rand's Architect 88
4 Steps Toward a Sustainable Architecture 101
5 Gordon Matta-Clark's Building Dissections 118
6 Territoriality and Identity at RAF Menwith Hill 142
7 Domestic Space Transformed, 1850-2000 163
8 English Townscape as Cultural and Symbolic Capital 202
Bibliography 227
Index 240 Architectures: Modernism and Afterdownload دانلود ,كتاب eBooks , از گروه Art and Humanities فرهنگ و هنر كتابخانه اينترنتي دانش گستران جوان You Research Product Details
ISBN: 0631229434
ISBN-13: 9780631229438
Format: Hardcover, 255pp
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Pub. Date: November 2003
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