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Author Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969.

Title Scope of total architecture / Walter Gropius
Edition [First edition]
Published New York : Harper, [1955]
New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1955]
©1955

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Description xxii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Series World perspectives ; v. 3
World perspectives ; v. 3
Contents Introduction -- I. Education of architects and designers -- 1. Approach -- 2. My conception of the Bauhaus idea -- 3. Is there a science of design? -- 4. Blueprint of an architect's education -- a. General education background -- b. Curriculum -- II. The contemporary architect -- 5. Appraisal of the development of modern architecture -- 6. Archeology or architecture for contemporary buildings? -- 7. The architect within our industrial society -- 8. Architect: servant or leader? -- III. Planning and housing -- 9. CIAM 1928-1953 -- 10. Sociological premises for the minimum dwelling of urban industrial populations -- 11. Houses, walk-ups or high-rise apartment blocks? -- 12. Organic neighbourhood planning -- 13. Problems of the "core" (community center) -- 14. Housing industry -- 15. A way out of the housing confusion -- IV. Scope of total architecture
Notes Also issued online
Subject Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
Housing.
LC no. 54012179