Title: Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to this Field of Art
Publisher: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0226869385
ISBN 13: 9780226869384
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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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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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.

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