Modern architecture : a very short introduction / Adam Sharr.
Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and med...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Very short introductions ;
587. |
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| Online Access: | Oxford Very Short Introductions |
| Summary: | Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval pasts into strikingly plain reflections of novel materials, functions, and technologies. Modern architecture promised the transformation of cities from overcrowded conurbations characterized by packed slums and dirty industries to spacious realms of generous housing and clean mechanized production set in parkland. At certain times and in certain cultures, it stood for the liberation of the future from the past. --Publisher |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 165 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191826340 0198783442 9780191826344 9780198783442 |