Main entry:

Hume, Bertram.

Title & Author:

Form and reform in architecture. Drawings by the author.

Publication:

London, Halcyon Press [1954]

Description:

190 pages illustrations 22 cm

Notes:
1. The dream of Christian architecture -- 2. The dream of virtue -- 3. The dream of construction -- 4. The dream of garden cities -- 5. The dream of co-operation -- 6. The dream of mechanization -- 7. The dream of town planning -- 8. The characteristics of unity -- 9. The characteristics of unity (continued) -- 10. The alternative principle -- 11. Romantic fury -- 12. Classical serenity -- 13. The communist levelling -- 14. The aristocratic structure -- 15. The social cycle -- 16. Conclusions -- 17. The present phase.
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Summary:

This book explains and discusses the theory of design in architecture with particular reference to the ideas which have most influenced it within the last hundred years and are most current to-day. The impact of power-driven machinery upon design provides Bertram Hume with his starting point; he describes its effect upon designers and the various expedients they adopted in their efforts to deal with a new situation. Since any reliable architectural historian must also be something of a sociologist, he does not neglect the many larger issues brought about by changes in society. These lead him into a consideration of such concepts as the Marxist theories of the organisation of society, the claims of the Town Planners and the philosophy behind the founding of the Garden Cities. Mr. Hume writes clearly and forcefully, avoiding the jargon of the technician and the art critic, but Form and Reform in Architecture is not, like so many books of the past decade, propaganda for a particular school of thought. Instead it sets out to consider impartially the claims put forward by various schools of design past and present, so that the reader may thread his way through the labyrinth of conflicting hypotheses and assertions put forward to-day and perhaps for the first time, feel equipped to exercise his judgment upon them. -- from dust jacket.

Subject:

Architecture.
architecture (discipline)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 87053
Call No.: W4864; ID:86-B1708
Status: Available