Architecture and 20th Century: Right, Conflicts, Values - Softcover

Olmo, Carlo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8895623843 ISBN 13: 9788895623849

Publisher: List Lab, 2015

Synopsis

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century mo­dernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region. This book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s.

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About the Author

An architectural historian, was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin from 2000 to 2007. He has taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at MIT in Boston. Director of the Dictionary of XX century and of “Il Giornale dell’Architettura”, he is author, among other, of “Alle radici dell’architettura” (Einaudi, 1989; with R. Gabetti) and the “La cittą e le sue storie” (Einaudi, 1995; with B. Lepetit).

Edition details

• Publisher: List Lab
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8895623843
• ISBN 13: 9788895623849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 151