9780521440134 - Building-Art Hardback: Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction (Contemporary Artists and their Critics) von Masheck (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

25.0 x 17.5cms 296pp b/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover These essays engage with the theory & pratcice of 19th & 20th century architecture as well as the work of Le Corbusier Mies van der Rohe Louis Kahn Girgio de Chirico & Tony Smith.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. Firm, square and tight with sturdy hinges, just showing a few minor rubs and some mild cosmetic wear. Hence a non-text page is stamped 'damaged'. Despite such this book is in nearly new condition. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and clean. Offered for sale at a very sensible price.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Building-Art is an anthology of essays by noted critic Joseph Masheck. Considering topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture, its theory and practice, as well as selected achievements by such great modernists as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Louis Kahn, Masheck also analyses important monuments and architectural ideas of such artists as Giorgio di Chirico and Tony Smith. Contextualising and culturally speculative, these studies address such issues as the distinction between architecture and 'mere' building, and architecture and engineering, frequently drawing the reader into architectural problems that have persisted for at least two centuries. Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s, which are particularly relevant in the light of postmodernism's demise.