Description
| Product ID: | 9780192842268 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Oxford History of Art |
| Title: | Modern Architecture |
| Authors: | Author: Alan Colquhoun |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: Art Nouveau, History of art, Architecture, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Architecture, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-04-25 |
