This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Sotans work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students....Lasīt vairāk
This book presents the making of Mexican modernist architecture mainly through five power structures : academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and post-colonial, and through interviews with thirteen key Mexican architects....Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949-1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976....Lasīt vairāk
The book is relevant to current issues of contemporary practice and education, showing that philosophical issues are fundamental, and those relating to design decisions never go away. It includes 200 illustrations and will appeal to all those intere...Lasīt vairāk
This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from th...Lasīt vairāk
This anthology collects developing scholarship on modernism that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks....Lasīt vairāk
Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Joe Plecnik (1...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of economic growth, social engineering and political repression from 1957 to 1966....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores Chinas encounter with architecture and modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism an encounter that was mediated not by a singular notion of modernism emanating from the west, but that was uniquely multifarious, deriving...Lasīt vairāk
Extends recent attempts to re-think post-war architectural culture and its global effects beyond simplistic, canonical, and ontological definitions or explanations....Lasīt vairāk
The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume, which redraws the boundaries and connections between interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms....Lasīt vairāk
The book explores the British architect-designed house as a vehicle for the investigation of architectural ideas by Britains second generation modernist architects and designers....Lasīt vairāk
Between the two World Wars, there was an unprecedented need for new houses in Britain which resulted in a building boom. This book examines these modest Modernist houses within the context of the Modern Movement in Europe, as well as the inter-war b...Lasīt vairāk
This set of essays challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernisms part in the transnational development of building technologies and the construction...Lasīt vairāk
Considering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1960s....Lasīt vairāk
Christopher Tunnard is one of the most influential figures in Landscape Architecture and his journey is one that still resonates in the discipline today. His leading role in first embracing the tenets of Modernism and then moving away to embrace a m...Lasīt vairāk
