Modern Architecture and Other Essays

Scully, Vincent & Neil Levine

ISBN 10: 0691074410 / ISBN 13: 9780691074412

Editore: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2003

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A nice, bright copy. ; B & W Illustrations; 8.5 X 1.25 X 10.5 inches; 399 pages.

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• Titolo: Modern Architecture and Other Essays
• Editore: Princeton University Press, Princeton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691074410
• ISBN 13: 9780691074412
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Near Fine
• Peso: 5 libbre
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Architecture/Urban Studies

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Riassunto

This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Vincent Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, has selected twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is characteristically Scully - provocative, precise in detail and observation, and written with passionate clarity. They document Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier to Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi.

Informazioni sull?autore

Vincent Scully is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University.