Modern Architecture - Brossura

Scully, Vincent Joseph

 
9780807603345: Modern Architecture

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From Louis Sullivan's first successful attempts to give steel construction its own form and expression, to city planning, contemporary megastructures, public housing, and the Mobile Home, Vincent Scully examines the significant aspects of modern architecture. Applying his considerable talents as a passionate and engaging writer and thinker, Scully explores the most important figures and developments in architecture during this period: Art Nouveau in Europe, Gropius and the Bauhaus, and Russian Constructivism, as well as the contributions of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Louis I. Khan, and Robert Venturi. 190 b/w illustrations.

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First published in 1961 and later expanded and revised in 1974, this book traces the major developments in twentieth-century architecture. It covers such subjects as Art Nouveau in Europe, the Bauhaus, and Russian Constructivism.

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9780807601594: Modern architecture;: The architecture of democracy, (The Great ages of world architecture)

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ISBN 10:  0807601594 ISBN 13:  9780807601594
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