Towns and buildings : described in drawings and words / Steen Eiler Rasmussen.

Main entry:

Rasmussen, Steen Eiler, 1898-1990, author.

Title & Author:

Towns and buildings : described in drawings and words / Steen Eiler Rasmussen.

Edition:

First English edition, 1951; First M.I.T. Press Paperback Edition, March 1969.

Publication:

Description:

viii, 203 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm.

Notes:
Translation of Byer og bygninger.
Revised from the Danish edition of 1949, the first Danish edition.
Includes index.
The city a temple -- Colonial cities -- The ideal cities of the Renaissance -- The grand perspective -- Rome the eternal city -- The Paris of the Musketeers -- The villa -- The Dutch contribution -- Charlottenborg in Copenhagen -- A tale of two cities -- Danish intermezzo -- Neoclassicism -- The banlieues -- Paris boulevards -- Land and speculation -- Functionalism.
Translated from the Danish.

ISBN:

0262680114 (paperback)
9780262680110 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning History.
Architecture History.
Cities and towns History.
Urbanisme Histoire.
Architecture Histoire.
Villes Histoire.
Cities and towns
Architecture
City planning
Urbanistica Teorie.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 80468
Call No.: ID:86-B15317
Status: Available

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