MODERN ARCHITECTURE The Architecture of Democracy

Vincent Scully, Jr.

ISBN 10: 0807603341 / ISBN 13: 9780807603345

Editore: George Braziller Inc, New York, 1979

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• Titolo: MODERN ARCHITECTURE The Architecture of Democracy
• Editore: George Braziller Inc, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1979
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0807603341
• ISBN 13: 9780807603345
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Edizione: Revised Edition; Ninth Printing.
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Art, Architecture and Photography

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Riassunto

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.