Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture - Brossura

Millais, Malcolm

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ISBN 10: 0711229740 ISBN 13: 9780711229747

Casa editrice: Frances Lincoln, 2009

Riassunto

The Modern movement began in the 1920s when a small group of young architects felt all that had gone before should be rejected and that architectural design should start afresh. This fresh start, they declared, should be based on modern technology and a new, modern approach to life. Their innovations became the 20th century’s dominant movement in architecture, crystallizing into the international style of the 1920s and '30s. In Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, Malcolm Millais explores the forces and factors that led to the emergence of the Modern movement, arguing that it was based on completely false premises. Millais offers a rarely heard perspective on the Modern movement, explaining its failures and how the well-meaning ?revolutionaries” behind it gained and maintained power.

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Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture demolishes the the belief system of the modern movement as ruthlessly as if he were dynamiting a redundant tower block. --Halifax Evening Courier

It is a volume I would like to see pressed into the hands of all architectural students. Gavin Stamp --Art Newspaper

Potentially persuasive demolition job on modern architecture. --RIBA Journal

L'autore

Malcolm Millais is a retired structural engineer who worked with Arups and others on many postwar buildings in Britain and elsewhere.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Frances Lincoln
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0711229740
• ISBN 13: 9780711229747
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 296