An edition of The details of modern architecture (1990)

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Edward R. Ford
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An edition of The details of modern architecture (1990)

The details of modern architecture

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v.1, covering 1890-1932, focuses on various recognized architects, explaining the detailing and construction techniques that distort, camouflage, or enhance a building. v.2 continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture from the late 1920s to the present.

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The details of modern architecture
2003, MIT Press, The MIT Press
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The Details of Modern Architecture: Volume 1 (Details of Modern Architecture)
October 1, 2003, The MIT Press
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Cover of: The details of modern architecture
The details of modern architecture
2003, MIT Press
in English
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Cover of: The details of modern architecture
The details of modern architecture
1990, MIT Press
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The details of modern architecture
1990, The MIT Press

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Table of Contents

V. 1. H.H. Richardson, Ralph Adams Cram, and the Gothic revival
McKim, Mead & White and classical rationalism
Edwin Lutyens and the language of classicism
Arts and crafts movement: the Greene brothers and their English contemporaries
Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park
Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos: Viennese rationalism
Le Corbusier: The classic villas
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the steel frame
Residential construction in America: Rudolf Schindler, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Usonian period. v. 2. Eliel Saarinen in Detroit: 1926-1940
Conversion of Erik Gunnar Asplund: 1930-1940
Richard Neutra and the architecture of surface: 1933-1952
Alvar Aalto nd Marcel Breuer: Light, industrialization and the vernacular, 1928-1963
Le Corbusier after 1928: 1928-1965
Saarinen, Eames, Fuller and the case study houses: 1940-1959
Eero Saarinen after 1945: 1945-1962
Louis Kahn, Sigurd Lewerentz and the new brutalism: 1954-1974
Venturis, Graves, Scarpa and the layers of history: 1963-1984
High tech, deconstruction, and the present day: 1972-1988.

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Vol. 2 has subtitle: 1928-1988.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Cambridge, Mass

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NA2840 .F67 2003, NA500

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2 v. :
Number of pages
466

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OL22859686M
ISBN 10
0262562014, 0262562022
LCCN
89031772
Library Thing
12130
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1799097
70152

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