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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812736103321

Titolo

Modernism and the spirit of the city / / edited by Iain Boyd Whyte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-15866-5

0-203-85765-8

1-283-96869-X

1-135-15867-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WhyteIain Boyd <1947->

Disciplina

711/.4/0940904

Soggetti

City planning - Europe - History - 20th century

Modern movement (Architecture) - Europe

City and town life - Europe - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Geist -- pt. II. Place -- pt. III. Faith.

Sommario/riassunto

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.