Modern architectural theory : a historical survey, 1673-1968 /

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Author / Creator:	Mallgrave, Harry Francis.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. ©2005
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 503 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Architecture -- Philosophy -- History. Architecture, Modern. Architecture, Modern. Architecture -- Philosophy. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11811814

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ISBN:	0511111347 9780511111341 0511110022 9780511110023 9780511497728 0511497725 9780511481055 0511481055 1280415118 9781280415111 9786610415113 6610415110 0521793068 9780521793063 9780521130486 0521130484 9780521793063 0521793068 0511111010 9780511111013
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-481) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theorem, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere.
Other form:	Print version: Mallgrave, Harry Francis. Modern architectural theory. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521793068
Standard no.:	9780521793063

Table of Contents:

Prelude
The enlightenment and neoclassical theory
British theory in the eighteenth century
Neoclassicism and historicism
The rise of German theory
Competing directions at midcentury
Historicism in the United States
The arts and crafts movements
Excursus on a few of the conceptual foundations of twentieth-century German modernism
Modernism 1889-1914
European modernism 1917-1933
American modernism 1917-1934
Depression, war, and aftermath 1934-1958
Challenges to modernism in Europe 1959-1967
Challenges to modernism in America.

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