| Description |
128 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Helen Castle -- Statements / John Battle, Tyler Brule and Terence Conran [et al.] -- Resurrection Politics: Modernism and Architecture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond / Iain Borden -- All Modern and Emotional: New Designs for British Living / Ilse Crawford -- Light, Air and the Modernist Menu: Three London Restaurants / Jeremy Myerson -- Burning up the Years: The Revival of British Modernism in the 1990s / Helen Castle -- Projects: Britain -- Modernism Redux: New York in the 1990s / Jayne Merkel -- Projects: New York -- Empathy versus Ideas: A Personal Account of American Modernism in the West / Antoine Predock -- Projects: Western USA -- Design in the Land of 'Creative Chaos': The Emergence of New Modernism in Japanese Architecture / Botond Bognar -- Projects: Japan |
| Summary |
'Modernization' has become the soundbite of the 1990s. What is the role of architecture within this quest for the modern? The modernism of the 1990s is very different from its precursors earlier this century. Where the pre-war Modern Movement saw itself as an instrument of social change, today's modernism is most visible in shops and restaurants; where the International Style tended towards standardization and uniformity, architects today aim for flexibility and individuality. In examining these and other contemporary issues, Modernism and Modernization in Architecture looks towards a new definition of modernism for our times |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127) |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Aesthetics.
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Architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Great Britain.
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Architecture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Japan.
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Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- United States.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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| Author |
Castle, Helen.
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| LC no. |
99203743 |
| ISBN |
0471984698 |
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