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Key modern architects : 50 short histories of modern architecture
\"Combining the clarity and accessibility of a textbook with in-depth reading and a critical approach, Key Modern Architects provides an invaluable resource for both the classroom and for independent study in architectural and art history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reviews Winter 2020
Bergdoll, B. A Review of Miriam Paeslack, Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Fozi, S. A Review of Robert Bork, Late Gothic Architecture: Its Evolution, Extinction, and Reception. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018. Higgott, A. A Review of Eva Branscome, Hans Hollein and Postmodernism: Art and Architecture in Austria 1958–1985. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Vassallo, J. A Review of Martino Stierli, Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2018; and Craig Buckley, Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Wheeler, K. A Review of Conor Lucey, Building Reputations. Architecture and the Artisan, 1750–1830. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
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Modern City Revisited
The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957. In the 1970s, the collapse of Modernism brought about universial condemnation of Modern urbanism; urban planning,and rationality itself, were thrown into doubt. However, such a wholesale condemnation hides the complex realities underlying these Modern cities. The contributors define some of the theoretical foundations of Modern urban planning, and reassess the successes and the failures of the built results. The book ends with contrasting views of the inheritance of Modern urbanism in the United States and the Netherlands.
'The diversity inherent in such a collection is positive especially if the reader views the works as a spring board for further research rather than a definitive review of each subject. Deckker has successfully tied together a series of disparate and sometimes opposing texts into one useful and enjoyable book to read.' - Urban Design 'This edited volume represents an examination and re-evaluation of a varied selection of concepts and constructions of twentieth-century urbanism ... the book yields many nuggets of knowledge and insight which expand comprehension of the modern city. - Built Environment
Foreword: The City after Now. Introduction: The Modern City Revisited. Part 1: Alternative Visions. Part 2: Vision vs. Reality. Part 3: The Decline of Modernism. Afterword: The Modern city Revisited - Envoi.
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