Victory of the New Building Style
Published on 31. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-89236-563-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this volume, first published in German in 1927, Walter Curt Behrendt presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Behrendt calls on architects to return to basic geometries and to express the new social and economic realities.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Santa Monica CA
United States
Publishing group
Getty Trust Publications
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
94 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89236-563-0 (9780892365630)
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Persons
Detlef Mertins, associate professor of architecture at the University of Toronto, is an architect, historian, and critic. Harry Francis Mallgrave translated Otto Wagner's Modern Architecture for the Texts & Documents series, and his most recent book is Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century.