Modern architecture : representation & reality / Neil Levine.
| Author/creator |
Levine, Neil, 1941- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2009. |
| Description | x, 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Castle Howard and the subject matter of history -- The appearance of truth and the truth of appearance in Laugier's primitive hut -- From imitation to abstraction in the neoclassicism of Boullée, Soane, and Schinkel -- Pugin, Labrouste, and the new realism of decorated construction -- Essays in the erosion of representation by Viollet-Le-Duc and Louis Sullivan -- Representation without history in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright -- The reemergence of representation out of abstraction in Mies van der Rohe -- The aesthetic of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009017329 |
| ISBN | 9780300145670 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300145675 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | NA500 .L48 2009 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |