Main entry:

Higgott, Andrew.

Title & Author:

Mediating modernism : architectural cultures in Britain / Andrew Higgott.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.
Making it new : the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain -- The mission of modernism : James Richards and the Architectural review -- The forgetting of art : the Abercrombie Plan for post-war London -- The shift to the specific : the new interpretation of materiality in brutalism and the functional tradition -- The opposite of architecture : Archigram and Architectural design in the 1960s -- Searching for the subject : Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School -- Architecture as discourse : rethinking the culture of architecture.

Summary:

"Mediating Modernism considers the history of modern architecture in Britain; however it is not primarily about the building of architecture itself but about the influential ideas and debates. This book brings to light the role of the publications, language and images which, in the act of 'describing', 'interpreting' or 'illustrating' it, in fact create the architecture by articulating and framing it."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

041540178X (hbk. alk. paper)
0415401771 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780415401784 (hbk. alk. paper)
9780415401777 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780203968987
0203968980

Subject:

Architectural criticism Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Architecture Great Britain 20th century.
Critique d'architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne 20e siècle.
Architectural criticism.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252451
Call No.: BIB 182154
Status: Available