|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910794198603321 |
|
|
Autore |
Betsky Aaron |
|
|
Titolo |
Making it modern : the history of Modernism in architecture and design / / Aaron Betsky |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York, New York : , : Actar Publishers, , [2016] |
|
©2016 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (353 pages) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Modern movement (Architecture) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Intro -- What Modern Is -- Space Opens Up -- Staging Modernity -- A New Style of Life -- At Home in the Brave New World -- Building Like Crystals, Forms as Cold Ice -- Toward Totality -- The Human Form Endures -- Wooden Ships -- After Modernism -- Re-Modernism -- Selected readings -- Index of names -- Illustration credits. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life, and the attempts to represent them in the construction of a modernist world. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|