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The story of modern architecture

Favole, Paolo2012

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Focusing on modern architecture, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this diverse period. Part of an accessibly written and generiously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features modern architecture's most important architects and buildings, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans. A style driven by huge technological advances, modernism is architecture's most diverse period. It encompasses buildings as varied as the Sydney Opera House and the Empire State skyscraper. This volume helps readers sort through the numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles of Modernism. Chronologically arranged, it includes some of twentieth century's most exciting buildings.

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Main title:

The story of modern architecture / Paolo Favole.

Author:

Favole, Paolo

Work:

The story of modern architecture

Imprint:

Munich [Germany] ; New York : Prestel, 2012.

Collation:

143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Notes:

Includes index.Translated from the Italian.

Contents:

Partial contents: Machine generated contents note: Czech Cubism in Prague -- Protorationalism -- Deutscher Werkbund -- Tony Gamier -- Auguste Perret -- Adolf Loos: The Early Years -- Walter Gropius: The Early Years -- Great Urban Planning -- United States of America -- Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Years -- Wright: Between Two Eras and Two Continents -- Dutch Expressionism: The Amsterdam School -- New Vocabularies: De Stijl -- Schröder House -- German Expressionism -- Bauhaus -- The Bauhaus Building -- Le Corbusier: The Early Years -- Villa Savoye -- Le Corbusier: Two Urban Plans -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Early Years -- Barcelona Pavilion -- The Weissenhof -- Adolf Loos -- Erich Mendelsohn -- Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud -- Willem Marinus Dudok -- Avant-garde and Decline in the Soviet Union -- The Czech Republic -- Art Deco -- Classicism and Eclecticism -- Joze Plecnik -- The Chicago Tribune Competition -- Richard Neutra -- Rudolph Schindler -- Wright and the Kaufmann House --

ISBN:

97837913464103791346415

Dewey class:

724.6

LC class:

NA680

Language:

EnglishItalian

Added title:

Modern architecture

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture)