| Modern Architecture Revised Edition Contributor(s): Scully, Vincent (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807603341 ISBN-13: 9780807603345 Publisher: George Braziller OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: This revised edition of the important work published in 1961 offers an opportunity to focus on the major new developments in architecture in the last twelve years, and in the light of those events, to revise and enlarge the view of modern architectural history as a whole which the original text presented. Unlike the earlier edition, the revision devotes considerable attention to city planning. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - General - Photography |
| Dewey: 724.9 |
| LCCN: 61013689 |
| Series: Great Ages of World Architecture |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 7.13" W x 9.99" (0.91 lbs) 158 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Louis Sullivan's first successful attempts to give steel construction its own form and expression, to city planning, contemporary megastructures, public housing, and the Mobile Home, Vincent Scully examines the significant aspects of modern architecture. Applying his considerable talents as a passionate and engaging writer and thinker, Scully explores the most important figures and developments in architecture during this period: Art Nouveau in Europe, Gropius and the Bauhaus, and Russian Constructivism, as well as the contributions of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Louis I. Khan, and Robert Venturi. 190 b/w illustrations. |
Contributor Bio(s): Scully, Vincent: - Vincent Scully has been widely honored as one of the most gifted historians and critics of architecture. He is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Miami. Other publications include The Shingle Style Today (2003) and Frank Lloyd Wright (1960). |
