Modernism and the Spirit of the City

. Ed(s): Whyte, Iain Boyd

ISBN 10: 0415258413 / ISBN 13: 9780415258418

Published by Routledge, 2003

About this Item

This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. Editor(s): Whyte, Iain Boyd. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, 23 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 589. . 2003. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modernism and the Spirit of the City
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415258413
• ISBN 13: 9780415258418
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotonous, this collection of essays by eminent scholars investigates the complex cultural, social, and religious imperatives that lay below the smooth, white surfaces of new architecture.

About the Author

Iain Boyd Whyte is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written extensively on early-modernist history and theory, with books on Bruno Taut, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, and the school of Otto Wagner. Among his current projects is an anthology of texts on the German-speaking metropolis, 1880-1940.