| Description |
2 volumes (427 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans ; 24 cm |
| Series |
History of world architecture |
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History of world architecture
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| Contents |
VOLUME 1 -- The rise urbanism in nineteenth century America -- The birth of modern town planning: I -- The birth of modern town planning: II -- Architecture and cities in the United States: 1870-1910 -- The architecture of northern romanticism and Catalan modernism -- The Werkbund: architecture faces the metropolis -- Modern classicism: architecture without avant garde -- Architecture and the avant garde from Cubism to the Bauhaus: 1906-1923 -- The role of the masters -- The dialectic of the European modern movement: expressionism versus rigorism -- The attempts at urban reform in Europe between the wars -- The avant garde, urbanism and planning in Soviet Russia -- Architecture and city in the United States: the Progressive era and the New Deal, 1910-1940 -- VOLUME 2 -- Architecture in Europe in the Twenties and Thirties -- Natiionalistic and totalitarian architecture in Italy and Germany -- Urbanistic administration and building policies after World War II -- Between nationalism and populism: the Bay Region style, Scandinavian neo-empiricism, Italian neo-realism, the work of Alvar Aalto -- The international panorama in the Fifties and Sixties -- The international concept of utopia -- The experience of the Seventies |
| Summary |
Covers the period from 1850 to 1980 and includes the development of modern town planning |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Originally published: London : Academy Editions, 1980 |
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Translation of: Architettura contemporanea |
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Western world. Architecture,. 1870-1985 (BNB/PRECIS) |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 401-403 |
| Notes |
Originally published: London : Academy Editions, 1980 |
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English translation of: Architettura contemporanea |
| Subject |
Architecture, Modern -- History -- 1850-1980
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Architecture, Modern -- 19th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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City planning.
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City planning -- History -- 1850-1980
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| Author |
Dal Co, Francesco, 1945-
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| LC no. |
11004577 |
| ISBN |
0571145760 (paperback) |
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0571145779 (paperback) |
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