Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (Texts and Documents Series) - Hardcover

Wagner, Otto; Mallgrave, Harry Francis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226869385 ISBN 13: 9780226869384

Publisher: Getty Center Publication, 1996

Synopsis

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.

Wagner's manifesto is a plea for an end to architectural eclecticism and for a more rational approach to design suited to contemporary life.

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About the Author

Harry Mallgrave is Associate Professor of History and Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. His 1996 book Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Harry Mallgrave is Associate Professor of History and Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. His 1996 book Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

Edition details

• Publisher: Getty Center Publication
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226869385
• ISBN 13: 9780226869384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 185