| Description |
424 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Emperor's New Paint -- 2. The Fashion Police -- 3. Scratching the Surface -- 4. Redressing Architecture -- 5. The Antifashion Fashion -- 6. White Lies -- 7. Deep Skin -- 8. Machine-Age Wallpaper -- 9. Sexual Charges -- 10. Whiteout |
| Summary |
In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, the author opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, he argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing--the newly athletic body of the building, like that of its occupants, wears a new kind of garment and these garments are meant to match |
| Analysis |
Architecture Modernism |
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Interiors Decoration Colour |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Philosophy.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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White in architecture.
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| LC no. |
95033938 |
| ISBN |
0262231859 (hc : alk. paper) |
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