20th Century Architecture (Trade Version)
Dennis Doordan(Author)
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2001
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8109-0605-1 (ISBN)
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Description
Twentieth-Century Architecture presents a meticulously detailed account of the many architectural orientations of the last 100 years. Taking a pluralistic approach toward the subject, the book moves beyond modernism and explores a broad spectrum of styles, several of which have been previously marginalized or ignored. The analysis, by scholar Dennis P. Doordan, is both exciting and, at the dawn of this new century, opportune. Organized by theme - Domestic Space, Political Architecture, Organic Form, Women in Architecture - and building type - department stores, skyscrapers, railroad stations, cinemas - the material structured in accessible "critical sets": groupings of examples that reveal different resolutions to common design challenges. Discursive captions accompany the illustrations, which include hundreds of diagrams, blueprints, and color photographs; a timeline tracks the development of architecture around the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Abrams
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
colour and b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1258 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8109-0605-1 (9780810906051)
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Dennis Doordan
20th Century Architecture (Trade Version)
Book
09/2003
Prentice Hall
€38.43
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Person
Dennis P. Doordan is associate professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame and co-editor of Design issues, a journal devoted to the history, theory, and criticism of design.