Modern Architecture

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Architecture, History, General Art
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Author: Alan Colquhoun ISBN: 9780191027277
Publisher: OUP Oxford Publication: April 25, 2002
Imprint: OUP Oxford Language: English
Author: Alan Colquhoun
ISBN: 9780191027277
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication: April 25, 2002
Imprint: OUP Oxford
Language: English

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.

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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.

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