Modern architecture
Subtitle: representation and reality
By: Neil Levine.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780300145670
Subjects: Architecture, Modern -- 18th century; Architecture, Modern -- 19th century; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Castle Howard and the subject matter of history; title: The appearance of truth and the truth of appearance in Laugier's primitive hut; title: From imitation to abstraction in the neoclassicism of Boullée, Soane, and Schinkel; title: Pugin, Labrouste, and the new realism of decorated construction; title: Essays in the erosion of representation by Viollet-Le-Duc and Louis Sullivan; title: Representation without history in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright; title: The reemergence of representation out of abstraction in Mies van der Rohe; title: The aesthetic of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn.