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Making dystopia: : the strange rise and survival of architectural barbarism
- Title
- Making dystopia: : the strange rise and survival of architectural barbarism / James Stevens Curl with a Prolegomenon by Timothy Brittain-Catlin.
- Author
- Curl, James Stevens, 1937-
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Details
- Description
- xxxviii, 551 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography and index.
- Call Number
- JQE 18-827
- ISBN
- 0198753691
- 9780198753698
- LCCN
- 2017959394
- OCLC
- 1015244550
- Author
- Curl, James Stevens, 1937- author.
- Title
- Making dystopia: : the strange rise and survival of architectural barbarism / James Stevens Curl with a Prolegomenon by Timothy Brittain-Catlin.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliography and index.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Curl, James Stevens, 1937- Making Dystopia. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780191068157 (OCoLC)1048895912
- Research Call Number
- JQE 18-827