Origins of functionalist theory.

Main entry:

De Zurko, Edward Robert.

Title & Author:

Origins of functionalist theory.

Publication:

New York, Columbia University Press, 1957.

Description:

265 pages illustrations 25 cm

Notes:
"An earlier version ... was submitted as a doctoral dissertation [New York University]."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255).

Summary:

Of a century of functionalism -- Classical origins of functionalism -- Medieval foundation and sublimation -- Form and function from the Renaissance -- British moralism, rationalism and naturalism -- The functionalism of Ruskin and his early contemporaries -- Rationalist functionalism in eighteenth-century France -- Early nineteenth-century French academicians -- The Italo-German axis of functionalism, Neoclassic and Romantic -- Earlly American contributions to the literature of functionalism -- Retrospect and prospect.

Subject:

Architecture.
Aesthetics.
architecture (discipline)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109967
Call No.: ID NA2500.D4; ID:96-B1626
Status: Available

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