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Modern architecture and other essays
Title:
Modern architecture and other essays
Author:
Scully, Vincent, Jr., 1920-
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Publication Information:
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
399 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
American villas: inventiveness in the American suburb from Downing to Wright -- Wright vs. the International style -- Archetype and order in recent American architecture -- Modern architecture: toward a redefinition of style -- The nature of the classical in art -- Frank Lloyd Wright and twentieth-century style -- The death of the street -- Doldrums in the suburbs -- RIBA discourse 1969: a search for principle between two wars -- Where is modern architecture going? -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the stuff of dreams -- Architecture, sculpture and painting: environment, act, and illusion -- Le Corbusier, 1922-1965 -- Introduction to The Louis I. Kahn Archive: personal drawings -- Robert Venturi's gentle architecture -- Architecture: the natural and the manmade -- Louis I. Kahn and the ruins of Rome -- Everybody needs everything -- The architecture of community -- America at the millennium: architecture and community.
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Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin031/2002019005.html
ISBN:
9780691074412

9780691074429
Format :
Book