| Description |
461 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 31 cm |
| Contents |
[Pt. 1]: Modernism. Classical Modernism ; Advance notice : "the bare necessities" ; The International Style ; After the war : kidney-shaped tables and candy colors ; The Laboratory Style ; Organic functionalism ; Mies's 1923 design for an office building ; Doctrinaire functionalism ; The Open Ground plan ; Row houses ; The interesting ; The revision of Modernism -- [Pt. 2]: Subterfuges and reorientations. Eclecticism ; Historicism and nostalgia ; Brutalism ; Tank and container construction ; Contextual architecture -- [Pt. 3]: Preconditions for Postmodern Architecture. Circa 1960 ; Louis I. Kahn -- [Pt. 4]: Postmodern Architecture. Architecture as fiction ; Breakthrough to Postmodernism : Robert Venturi ; Charles Moore : "Places" ; American Postmodernism ; Rationalism ; Oswald Mathias Ungers ; Aldo Rossi ; Italian Rationalism ; Rationalism in Germany and elsewhere in Europe ; The New York Five ; James Stirling ; Hans Hollein and the Viennese Architecture of the present ; Architecture and technology ; Against perfection ; Architecture on paper |
| Analysis |
Architecture, 1900-1980 |
| Notes |
Originally published as: Moderne und Postmoderne: Architektur der Gegenwart |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-449) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
| Subject |
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Postmodern.
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| Author |
Donnell, Radka.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| LC no. |
87003864 |
| ISBN |
0262111233 |
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