Title & Author:

Architectures : modernism and after / edited by Andrew Ballantyne.

Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Description:

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

New interventions in art history ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.
Introduction: architectures in the plural / Andrew Ballantyne -- An avant-garde academy / Simon Sadler -- Aalto and the tutelary goddesses / Sarah Menin -- Becoming-skyscraper: Ayn Rand's architect / Gerard Loughlin -- Steps toward a sustainable architecture / Brenda and Robert Vale -- Gordon Matta-Clark's building dissections / Stephen Walker -- Territoriality and identity at RAF / Menwith Hill, David Wood -- Domestic space transformed, 1850-2000 / Elizabeth Cromley -- English townscape as cultural and symbolic capital / Andrew Law.

Summary:

"This collection of essays brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment from 1851 to the present time, showing how buildings and our responses to them are embedded in the cultural process and the ethics of production."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0631229434 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780631229438 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0631229442 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780631229445 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 19th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architektur
Bouwkunst.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Architecture (object genre)

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Ballantyne, Andrew.
New interventions in art history ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229468
Call No.: NA642 .A733 2004
Status: Available