Modern architecture : representation & reality

By:

Levine, Neil, 1941-

Publication details: Yale University Press New Haven, 2010Description: 364 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cmISBN:

9780300145670

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

724 LEV

Contents:

Castle Howard and the subject matter of history The appearance of truth and the truth of appearance in Laugier's primitive hut From imitation to abstraction in the neoclassicism of Boullée, Soane, and Schinkel Pugin, Labrouste, and the new realism of decorated construction Essays in the erosion of representation by Viollet-Le-Duc and Louis Sullivan Representation without history in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright The reemergence of representation out of abstraction in Mies van der Rohe The aesthetic of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn

Summary: In this work, esteemed architectural historian Neil Levine investigates the complex history of representation from the 18th to the 20th century. Using the lens of a continuous theoretical argument, Levine provides a detailed survey and critical analysis of major works by a host of modern architects

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Books	Anant National University Central Library	Master of Architecture	724 LEV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004731

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Castle Howard and the subject matter of history
The appearance of truth and the truth of appearance in Laugier's primitive hut
From imitation to abstraction in the neoclassicism of Boullée, Soane, and Schinkel
Pugin, Labrouste, and the new realism of decorated construction
Essays in the erosion of representation by Viollet-Le-Duc and Louis Sullivan
Representation without history in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
The reemergence of representation out of abstraction in Mies van der Rohe
The aesthetic of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn

In this work, esteemed architectural historian Neil Levine investigates the complex history of representation from the 18th to the 20th century. Using the lens of a continuous theoretical argument, Levine provides a detailed survey and critical analysis of major works by a host of modern architects

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