Mediating modernism : architectural cultures in Britain / Andrew Higgott.
Published / Created:
London ; Routledge, 2007.New York : Routledge, 2007.
Physical Description:
viii, 216 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006008361.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index.
Contents:
Making it new : the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain -- The mission of modernism : James Richards and the Architectural review -- The forgetting of art : the Abercrombie Plan for post-war London -- The shift to the specific : the new interpretation of materiality in brutalism and the functional tradition -- The opposite of architecture : Archigram and Architectural design in the 1960s -- Searching for the subject : Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School -- Architecture as discourse : rethinking the culture of architecture.
Subject Terms:
Architectural criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy. | Architecture -- Great Britain -- 20th century.