Modernism and the Spirit of the City

Modernism and the Spirit of the City
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9781135158668
ISBN-13 : 1135158665
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Download or read book Modernism and the Spirit of the City written by Iain Boyd Whyte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotonous, this collection of essays by eminent scholars investigates the complex cultural, social, and religious imperatives that lay below the smooth, white surfaces of new architecture.


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