Britain / Alan Powers.

Main entry:

Powers, Alan, 1955-

Title & Author:

Britain / Alan Powers.

Publication:

London : Reaktion, 2006.

Description:

304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Modern architectures in history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Efficiency : from modernity to modernism -- 2. Compassion : modern architecture builds the 'just city' -- 3. Poetics : the moral dilemma of modern aesthetics -- 4. Production : white heat and burnout -- 5. Happiness : the reintegration of architecture -- 6. Conscience : the architecture of fruitful anxiety -- 7. Difference : local action and global thought.

Summary:

"Illustrated with both recent and historical photographs, Britain is an authoritative yet highly accessible account of twentieth-century British architecture. Giving due regard to the separate identities of England, Scotland and Wales, it also adds a new and original dimension to the perennial problem of defining 'Britain' in the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

1861892810 (pbk.)
9781861892812 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture) Great Britain.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Modern architectures in history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251592
Call No.: BIB 181140
Status: Available

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