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Modern architecture / Alan Colquhoun.

Author/creator Colquhoun, Alan, 1921-2012
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Supplemental Content Contributor biographical information
Subject(s)
Architecture, Modern--20th century.
Series Oxford history of art
Oxford history of art. ^A388008
Contents Art Nouveau 1890-1910.-- Organicism versus classicism: Chicago 1890-1910.-- Culture and industry: Germany 1907-14.-- The urn and the chamberpot: Adolf Loos 1900-30.-- Expressionism and futurism.-- The Avant-gardes in Holland and Russia.-- Return to order: Le Corbusier and modern architecture in France 1920-35.-- Weimar Germany: the dialectic of the modern 1920-33.-- From rationalism to revisionism: architecture in Italy 1920-65.-- Neoclassicism, organicism, and the welfare state: architecture in Scandinavia 1910-65.-- From Le Corbusier to megastructures: urban visions 1930-65.-- Pax Americana: architecture in America 1945-65.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 264-269) and index.
LCCN 2002510839
ISBN0192842269
ISBN9780192842268

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