Book Details
Orange Code:93264
Paperback:270 pages
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Sections:
1. An Avant-garde Academy Simon Sadler2. Aalto and the Tutelary Goddesses Sarah Menin3. Becoming-skyscraper: Ayn Rand’s Architect Gerard Loughlin4. Steps Toward a Sustainable Architecture Brenda and Robert Vale5. Gordon Matta-Clark’s Building Dissections Stephen Walker6. Territoriality and Identity at RAF Menwith Hill David Wood7. Domestic Space Transformed, 1850–2000 Elizabeth Cromley8. English Townscape as Cultural and Symbolic Capital Andrew Law
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Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment.
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- 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
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