International Style – MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE from 1925 to 1965
Häftad bok. Taschen. 2001. 240 sidor.
Nyskick. –– ABSOLUT NYSKICK, förutom omslaget som är gulnat, obet. kantmärken. Format 24x30 cm. – Se fler bilder! – "Modern architecture is not a new branch of an old tree - it is an altogether new shoot rising beside the old roots." Thus claimed Walter Gropius, one of the pioneers of modern architecture, on the radical departures of the 20th century. In the 1930s, the term "International Style" came into use to describe a new form of architecture evolved from Bauhaus and its conviction that "form follows function". Until the 1980s, international style set the standard in modern building, with its logical formal idiom and rational solutions to construction problems. Combining steel, glass and concrete, it established an aesthetic founded on the sheer thrill of pushing to the limits of technical and economic viability. Hence the exhilarating skylines of metropolises worldwide - but also the desolate anonymity of modern suburban environments. This book traces the evolution of a style while examining the individual and regional forms it took, and analyzes the ideals and realities of architectural visions of utopia. / "For students of modernism, I highly recommend this for your libraries as it provides a great blow-by-blow review of the style as it evolved in Europe. If you are looking to learn about the immediate roots of European modernism, with details on it's foundation, growth and maturation throughout France, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Finland, Great Britain and the rest of Europe - this is your source. It does not cover a lot of the American Modernism that took root in SoCal during this period - but that really can't be labeled international. West Coast modernism is a beast all to itself. This is a great study - and the photos and plans are well sized and prevalent throughout." –– GLÖM INTE ATT TITTA PÅ ALLA MINA ANDRA BÖCKER!
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9783822812297
- Titel
- International style : modernist architecture from 1925 to 1965
- Författare
- Khan, Hasan-Uddin
- Förlag
- Köln : Taschen
- Språk
- English
