Author: R. Stephen Sennott Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 9781579584337 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 546
Book Description
"A balance of sophistication and clarity in the writing, authoritative entries, and strong cross-referencing that links archtects and structures to entries on the history and theory of the profession make this an especially useful source on a century of the world's most notable architecture. The contents feature major architects, firms, and professional issues; buildings, styles, and sites; the architecture of cities and countries; critics and historians; construction, materials, and planning topics; schools, movements, and stylistic and theoretical terms. Entries include well-selected bibliographies and illustrations."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.
Author: Gerd Hatje Publisher: New York : Harry N. Abrams ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
This book is an expanded and completely revised edition of Abrams' Encyclopedia of Modern Architecture, published in 1964. With more than 350 entries, this handy new [1986] reference work covers the field of 20th-century architecture on a worldwide sale. Biographies of individual architect and firms include the work of the present generation, such as Michael Graves, Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, Charles Moore, Robert Stern, and Hans Hollein, adding them to those of such earlier architects as Antoni Gaudi, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Sullivan. Lengthy articles cover countries of the world where substantial contributions have been made to building innovations. Architectural associations, groups, and movements are dealt with, and stylistic changes from Art Nouveau to Post-Modernism are described. Every page is illustrated with photographs, drawings, and plans of buildings, more than 450 in all, which greatly enhance the reader's enjoyment and understanding ..."--
Author: Richard Poulin Publisher: ISBN: 1592537790 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
This innovative volume is the first to provide the design student, practitioner, and educator with an invaluable comprehensive reference of visual and narrative material that illustrates and evaluates the unique and important history surrounding graphic design and architecture. Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History closely examines the relationship between typography, image, symbolism, and the built environment by exploring principal themes, major technological developments, important manufacturers, and pioneering designers over the last 100 years. It is a complete resource that belongs on every designer’s bookshelf.
Author: R. Stephen Sennott Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780203483886 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 1568
Book Description
In its extensive coverage of architecture's multifaceted production from 1900 to 2000, the Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture encompasses a far-reaching range of international architectural subjects to provide a fundamental understanding of the century's prominent architects and their buildings. The Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture profiles the century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. More than 700 cross-referenced articles examine twentieth-century materials and building technologies, planning, building types, schools and movements, critics and historians, and architectural practice and the profession in developing and developed cities, countries and regions. In addition to a list of further readings, essays are supported with professional and historic photographs or architectural drawings and plans. Unlike existing works in architecture, the three-volume Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles and building practices across both traditional geographic and cultural boundaries. Seeking well-informed variety, an international team of 300 writers - architectural historians, architects, engineers, preservationists, urban historians, critics and independent scholars - present a comprehensive and critical assessment of buildings, architects, cities and related topics of interest, to provide experts and general readers alike with an integrated view of the practice and profession of architecture around the world.
Author: Dennis P. Doordan Publisher: Prentice Hall ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
A survey of 20th-century architecture, selecting significant moments and unravelling the attendant political, social and technological strands. The author not only describes buildings but also the evolution of design tools and their impact on architectural design.
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