Modern architectural theory : a historical survey, 1673-1968

Modern architectural theory : a historical survey, 1673-1968 / Harry Francis Mallgrave.

Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theorem, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and politic...

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Main Author: Mallgrave, Harry Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
©2005
Subjects:
Architecture > Philosophy > History.
Architecture, Modern.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architecture, Modern
Architecture > Philosophy
Architectuurtheorieën.
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude
  • The enlightenment and neoclassical theory
  • British theory in the eighteenth century
  • Neoclassicism and historicism
  • The rise of German theory
  • Competing directions at midcentury
  • Historicism in the United States
  • The arts and crafts movements
  • Excursus on a few of the conceptual foundations of twentieth-century German modernism
  • Modernism 1889-1914
  • European modernism 1917-1933
  • American modernism 1917-1934
  • Depression, war, and aftermath 1934-1958
  • Challenges to modernism in Europe 1959-1967
  • Challenges to modernism in America.

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