Description: Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction Author: Masheck, Joseph Title: Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction Publication: Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1993 Description: Paperback. xv, 298 pages: illustrations; 26 cm. Fine with very faint wear to corners. "Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s." —Publisher. // Contents: Bentham's Panopticon: an architectural perpetration. Politics of style: Dublin Pro-Cathedral in the Greek Revival. An American utopian schoolhouse design. Note on Sullivan and the rarefaction of bodily beauty. De Chirico's pathos of lost antiquity. Textual life of the living machine. Reflections in onyx on Mies van der Rohe. Post tenebras lux: speculations on Ronchamp. Kahn: the anxious classicist. Crystalline form, Worringer, and the minimalism of Tony Smith. Form behind concept: the Bechers' imaging of industrial architecture. Classical sass: notes on soft postmodernism. Tired tropes: cathedral versus bicycle shed: "duck" versus "decorated shed." Seller ID: 102824 Subject: Art, Architecture, Design & Photography BIBLIOPE by CALVELLO BOOKS Fine & Unusual Books, Art & Collectibles. Since 1987. Terms All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Masheck, Joseph
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year Printed: 1993
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
