Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (Texts & Documents)

Wagner, Otto

ISBN 10: 0226869393 / ISBN 13: 9780226869391

Published by Getty Research Institute, 1988

About this Item

The book has fair edge wear (but no tearing), a sticker at the bottom of the front endpage, and very light overall fading. Otherwise, the book is tightly-bound, clean, and unmarked. The dust jacket has fair edge wear, some tearing on the headband, scuffing on the hinges, and overall fading. Otherwise it is clean, well-aged, and adorned with archival covering.

Seller Inventory # 1005076

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (Texts & Documents)
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226869393
• ISBN 13: 9780226869391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

About this title

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.

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.