Architecture Today
$75.85
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2001
Summary
This work is a comprehensive overview of architecture worldwide since the 1960s. A guide to the many and varied contemporary architectural trends, it leads the reader through the styles and movements of architecture in the latter half of the 20th century.
The Modern Movement in architecture early in the 20th century gave rise to the “International Style” - architecture was intended to transcend its time and place and provide a new world order in building and city planning. In the 1960…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780714840970 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0714840971 |
| Author: | James Steele |
| Publisher: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 2.79kg |
| Dimensions: | 290mm x 250mm x 45mm |
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Critics Review
“As a beginner’s guide to the trends of the last 25 years, Architecture Today is invaluable. Accessible text and a preponderance of colour pictures go a long way toward doing for architecture what Gombrich did for art.”-Creative Review
“Exceptionally handsome. A lavish look at some of the best building trends since 1960.”-Met House
“An ambitious guide to the trends in architecture over the last 25 years. In other words, a romp through all those tricky isms, from Vernacular to Deconstruction.”-The Sunday Times
About The Author
James Steele
James Steele is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He has previously taught at Texas Tech University, the University of London and the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture. His many publications include Los Angeles Architecture: the Contemporary Condition, and the Architecture in Detail monographs Eames House, Barnsdall House and Lawson-Westen House.
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