Buildings and Power : Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types

Markus, Thomas A

ISBN 10: 041507665X / ISBN 13: 9780415076654

Published by Routledge, London and New York, 1993

About this Item

Small 4to, i-xx, 343 pp, black and white figures throughout from drawings , plans and photographs, card covers, a fine clean copy.

Seller Inventory # 20519

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Buildings and Power : Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types
• Publisher: Routledge, London and New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041507665X
• ISBN 13: 9780415076654
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 22W x 28H x 2D centimeters 22 centimeters width by 28 centimeters height by 2 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1.8 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture, Health, Urban planning

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Synopsis

The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The battles fought over class, ideology and language are represented most clearly in the explosion of new building types during the Century of Revolutions.
Lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, Buildings and Power analyses architectural form, function and space to explore the reproduction and the subversion of power in the modern city.

About the Author

Thomas A. Markus