Main entry:

Tafuri, Manfredo.

Title & Author:

Modern architecture / Manfredo Tafuri, Francesco Dal Co. ; translated from the Italian by Robert Erich Wolf.

Publication:

London : Faber & Faber/Electa, 1986-

Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

History of world architecture

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-403) and index.
VOLUME 1 -- The rise urbanism in nineteenth century America -- The birth of modern town planning: I -- The birth of modern town planning: II -- Architecture and cities in the United States: 1870-1910 -- The architecture of northern romanticism and Catalan modernism -- The Werkbund: architecture faces the metropolis -- Modern classicism: architecture without avant garde -- Architecture and the avant garde from Cubism to the Bauhaus: 1906-1923 -- The role of the masters -- The dialectic of the European modern movement: expressionism versus rigorism -- The attempts at urban reform in Europe between the wars -- The avant garde, urbanism and planning in Soviet Russia -- Architecture and city in the United States: the Progressive era and the New Deal, 1910-1940 -- VOLUME 2 -- Architecture in Europe in the Twenties and Thirties -- Natiionalistic and totalitarian architecture in Italy and Germany -- Urbanistic administration and building policies after World War II -- Between nationalism and populism: the Bay Region style, Scandinavian neo-empiricism, Italian neo-realism, the work of Alvar Aalto -- The international panorama in the Fifties and Sixties -- The international concept of utopia -- The experience of the Seventies.
Translation from the Italian.

Summary:

Covers the period from 1850 to 1980 and includes the development of modern town planning.

ISBN:

0571145760 (v. 1)
9780571145768 (v. 1)
0571145779
9780571145775
0847807606
9780847807604
0847807614
9780847807611

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 19th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
City planning.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 19e-20e siècle.

Added entries:

Dal Co, Francesco, 1945-
Wolf, Robert Erich, trad.
History of world architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294191
Call No.: BIB 239576
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available