The New Modernist In World Architecture

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: McGraw Hill Inc
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 240 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An examination and evaluation of the modern movement in architecture. It begins with the masters who inaugurated the international style, such as Wright, Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, and continues through the practitioners in the formative 1950s and 1960s, including Saarinen, Stone and Kahn, through to exemplary works up to the present day by architects such as Barnes, Rogers, Hopkins and Jones, and later works by the pioneers of that style. The book elucidates the basic design ideas, forms, techniques and materials that characterise modernism, together with the social, philosophical and aesthetic principles that inform the work. A backlash against the bankrupt melange of styles of postmodernism is leading to renewed interest in the human-centred simplicity of modernism, and this work, authored by one of its practitioners, reacquaints the reader with the essential components of the style, provides practical guidelines for today's architecture, and makes a persuasive case for a return to its principles.

ISBN: 9780070594845