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Building-art : modern architecture under cultural construction

Title
Building-art : modern architecture under cultural construction / Joseph Masheck.
Author
Masheck, Joseph.
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Description
xv, 298 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Contemporary artists and their critics
Subject
  • Architecture, Modern > 19th century
  • Architecture, Modern > 20th century
  • Architecture > Philosophy
  • Architectural criticism
  • Architecture
Note
  • Anthology of essays.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-290) and index.
Contents
Bentham's Panopticon : an architectural perpetration -- Politics of style : Dublin Pro-Cathedral in the Greek Revival -- An American utopian schoolhouse design -- Note on Sullivan and the rarefaction of bodily beauty -- De Chirico's pathos of lost antiquity -- Textual life of the living machine -- Reflections in onyx on Mies van der Rohe -- Post tenebras lux : speculations on Ronchamp -- Kahn : the anxious classicist -- Crystalline form, Worringer, and the minimalism of Tony Smith -- Form behind concept : the Bechers' imaging of industrial architecture -- Classical sass : notes on soft postmodernism -- Tired tropes : cathedral versus bicycle shed : "duck" versus "decorated shed".
Call Number
JQF 03-1363
ISBN
0521440130
LCCN
92039223
OCLC
26932924
Author
Masheck, Joseph.
Title
Building-art : modern architecture under cultural construction / Joseph Masheck.
Imprint
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Series
Contemporary artists and their critics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-290) and index.
Indexed Term
Architecture
Research Call Number
JQF 03-1363
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