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100 _aColin Davies
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245 _aA new history of modern architecture /
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260 _bLaurence King Publishing
300 _a500 páginas
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_bIlustraciones, Tablas y Gráficas
490 0 _aSerie
504 _aIncluye Referencias Bibliográficas
505 _aCONTENTS Introduction Alt O Inge Part Control Le Corbusier Part 2| 1932-1965 Factories 1902-1942 Expressionism 1914-1941 Dutch Modernism | 1915-1931 German Modernism | 1919-1933 Le Corbusier Part 1| 1906-1932 Mies van der Rohe in Germany 1907-1938 Russian Constructivism | 1917-1936 Wright, Schindler and Neutra | 1911-1938 Art Deco and the Skyscraper 1925-1939 Modern Classicism | 1923-1942 Modernism in the USA | 1932-1972 Domes, Shells and Tenis | 1952-1973 Alvar Aalto and Hans Scharoun | 1924-1971 Mass Housing | 1949-1968 Art Nouveau and Adolf Loos 1881-1930 Houses 1891-1911 3 National Romanticism, the New Tradition and the Beaux-Arts 1893-1923 Steel and Concrete: Pioneers and Visionaries 1891-1923 Latin American Modernism | 1932-1982 Brutalism 1954-1977 Louis Kahn Monumental Modernism | 1953-1982 'Non-Western' Influences | 1937-1991 24 Postmodernism | 1964-1990 Neo-Rational 1967-1991 High Tech | 1967-1991 Japan 1945-2000 28 Deconstructivism | 1982-1995 Rem Koolhaas and OMA | 1991-2004 "The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment' Revisited | 1973-2007 "Context' and 'Materiality | 1963-2012 Digital Futures 1994-2012 China | 1911-2012 Notes Bibliography Index Picture credita
520 _aINTRODUCTION Photogenel and enjoyable history of Омний апостыеmу first century architecture. A story orches the same as history of building. A hưng of building might stme for completeness, to 'cover to grund extematically and tectisely, assessing the pertense of atterent building technologiens or ofuftentation on powerment policies. Such a might frame take the trouble to study popular The Cape Cod and tanch style homes of the Ameshurta perhaps or the factory as building hoading the chesap portal framed sheds that shelter mactum spermats all over the world A history of antecore on the other hand will pay scant attention to fhose numerous but anonymous tuidings on the grounds that they are aftastically unmenting Architecture is the buildings tut not of all buildings. And architectural Tratory came only a small schon from the minonity sings that quify architecture The same architecture as in any art, is an imperfect Phing of of Duturtions and entices. But that doesn't mean fact it into the progress of the www.chectural conversations in books and atbos and conturama, and in schools of two be greatly impoverished. The canon the pool of shared knowledge that unites architects all over the world and gives them their collective identity. When one architect mentions the Villa Savoye, another immediately sees a picture in his or her mind and is prepared to join in the discussion. A thorough knowledge of canonical buildings is essential to every serious architect and student of architecture, and this book is designed to help with the gaining of that knowledge. In theory it would be possible to reject the canon completely and start again from scratch, reordering the evidence of the past in proportion to its artistic and social importance. In practice, however, such a history would probably be no less biased and selective than the histories it sought to supplant. And in throwing out the canon, one would be throwing out agreed standards of comparison and judgement that are the foundation of architectural culture. On the other hand, the canon must never be completely sacrosanct. Any new history has a duty to reassess it, to question the value of certain of its members and promote less familiar ones. That is what this book sets out to do. It is not revolutionary, but neither is it slavishly conservative In reassessing the modern architectural canon, one question has to be considered especially carefully: the relative
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