Architecture Books: Oxford History of Art - Modern Architecture (9780192842268) By Alan Colquhoun
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- Title: Modern Architecture (Oxford History of Art)
- Author: Alan Colquhoun
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published Date: April 2002
- ISBN: 978-0-19-284226-8
- Pages: 288
- Format: Paperback
- Price: United Kingdom USA
- Explores the complex motivations and assesses the triumphs and failures behind international modernism
- Re-examines and shedding new light on the roles of masters such as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Adolf Loos and others
- Explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s
- Reveals the contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition
- Recommended for students of architecture and professionals
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Alan Colquhoun - Graduated from the Architectural Association(AA) in 1949 and presently Professor of Architecture at Princeton University Taught at the AA, Cornell University and University College Dublin and other prominent universities. |
- Art Nouveau
- Organicism versus Classicism
- Culture and Industry
- 'The Urn and the Chamberpot'
- Expressionism and Futurism
- The Avant-Gardes in Holland and Russia
- Return to Order: Le Corbusier and Modern Architecture
- Weimar Germany: the Dialectic of the Modern
- From Rationalism to Revisionism: Architecture in Italy
- Neoclassicism, Organicism and the Welfare State: Architecture in Scandinavia
- From Le Corbusier to Megastructures: Urban Visions
- Pax Americana: Architecture in America
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