This collection of essays offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotous, the essays investigate the complex cultural, social and religious imperatives that lay below the smooth, white surfaces of new architecture.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Iain Boyd Whyte
EAN: 9780415258418
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 500 g
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 2003-08-21
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GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape
WIDTH: 156 cm
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Book Themes:
Europe, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Architecture
Iain Boyd Whyte is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written extensively on early-modernist history and theory, with books on Bruno Taut, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, and the school of Otto Wagner. Among his current projects is an anthology of texts on the German-speaking metropolis, 1880-1940.
