| Description |
ix, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Iain Boyd Whyte -- 1. From locus genii to heart of the city: embracing the spirit of the city / Volker M. Welter -- 2. Straight or crooked streets? The contested rational spirit of the modern metropolis / David Frisby -- 3. August Endell: the spirit and the beauty of the city / Helge David -- 4. Embodying the spirit of the metropolis: the Warenhaus Wertheim, Berlin, 1896-1904 / Helen Shiner -- 5. The Hamburg Bismarck as city crown and national monument / Karen Lang -- 6. The lantern and the glass: on the themes of renewal and dwelling in Le Corbusier's Purist art and architecture / Dagmar Motycka Weston -- 7. 'Cities more fair to become the dwelling place of Thy children': transcendent modernity in British urban reconstruction / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe -- 8. Privet: theologies of privacy in some modernist urbanism / Rob Stone -- 9. Rudolf Schwarz, the Hochstadt, and the reconstruction of Cologne / Rudolf Stegers |
| Summary |
This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished scholars focus on the city as the dominant generator of social, political and cultural institutions and structures in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe |
| Notes |
Drawn from 2 symposia in 1999 and 2000 entitled City and spirit in modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
City and town life -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Modern movement (Architecture) -- Europe.
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City planning -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Cities and towns -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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City and town life -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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City planning -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Modern movement (Architecture) -- Europe -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-
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Association of Art Historians (Great Britain). Conference.
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| LC no. |
2002155376 |
| ISBN |
0415258413 paperback |
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0415258405 : |
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