The story of modern architecture
Favole, Paolo2012
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Focusing on modern architecture, this book features the most important architects and buildings, interior & exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings and plans. It includes buildings as varied as the Sydney Opera House & the Empire State skyscraper
Main title:
The story of modern architecture / by Paolo Favole.
Author:
Imprint:
Munich, Germany : Prestel, 2012.
Collation:
143 pages : illustrations (some colour).
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Czech Cubism in Prague -- Protorationalism -- Deutscher Werkbund -- Tony Gamier -- Auguste Perret -- Adolf Loos: The Early Years -- Walter Gropius: The Early Years -- Great Urban Planning -- United States of America -- Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Years -- Wright: Between Two Eras and Two Continents -- Dutch Expressionism: The Amsterdam School -- New Vocabularies: De Stijl -- Schroder House -- German Expressionism -- Bauhaus -- The Bauhaus Building -- Le Corbusier: The Early Years -- Villa Savoye -- Le Corbusier: Two Urban Plans -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Early Years -- Barcelona Pavilion -- The Weissenhof -- Adolf Loos -- Erich Mendelsohn -- Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud -- Willem Marinus Dudok -- Avant-garde and Decline in the Soviet Union -- The Czech Republic -- Art Deco -- Classicism and Eclecticism -- Joze Plecnik -- The Chicago Tribune Competition -- Richard Neutra -- Rudolph Schindler -- Wright and the Kaufmann House -- Wright and Taliesin West -- Art Deco in the United States -- Skyscrapers -- Germany -- Gropius and the Large-Scale Estates -- The Hofe Courtyards in Vienna -- Karl Marx Hof -- The Werkbund -- The Netherlands -- France -- England -- Architecture in Italy -- Casa del Fascio/Fascist Headquarters -- Fascist Urban Planning: The New Cities -- Germany -- The Soviet Union -- Le Corbusier: Grand Designs 1930-1940 -- The Swiss Pavilion -- Alvar Aalto: The Early Years -- The Paimio Sanatorium -- The Organic Movement in Germany -- New English Gardens -- Scandinavia -- The Liturgical Movement in Germany -- Architectural Engineering.
ISBN:
9783791346410 (paperback)
Dewey class:
724.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
5849
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 724.6 STO | Available |
| St Clair | Nonfiction | 724.6 STO | Available |