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Book

100 years of architecture

Call Number

  • 720.9 P8881 (OSH)

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Publication Information

London : Laurence King Publishing, 2016.

Physical Description

304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.

Summary

This visual history documents in pictures the an exciting and dynamic period of architecture: from the early 20th century to the present day, covering all the key movements, styles and architects, together with many lesser known but important names and buildings.

Contents

  • Memory, modernity and modernism 1890-1914
  • Solidity and scenography 1914-1939
  • The new reality 1914-1932
  • The lost lands of modernism 1929-1950-- Other modern: Romanticism and revision 1933-1945
  • The new world 1945-1970
  • New fabrication and new form 1920-1975
  • Recovered memory 1950-2000
  • Landscape and location 1965-2014
  • High tech and low tech 1975-2014
  • Icons, superstars and global brands 1980-2014
  • Controlled experience 1989-2014.

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