| The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture Contributor(s): La Marche, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252075617 ISBN-13: 9780252075612 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2008 Annotation: Re-examining some of the most important western architecture of the twentieth century |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) - Architecture | Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 9.5" (0.70 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century. The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture examines the work--written and built--of four seminal twentieth-century architects and firms: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, and the partnership of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In approaching the history of twentieth-century Western architecture from the perspective of the architectural subject--the person architects imagine experiencing their work--Jean La Marche reveals new insights into the ways humans are imagined in relation to architecture. |