Building-Art Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction

Name: Building-Art Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction
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ISBN: 9780521440134

ISBN-10: 0521440130

ISBN-13: 9780521440134

Edition: 1993

Authors: Joseph Masheck, Donald Kuspit

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Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction is an anthology of essays by noted critic Joseph Masheck. Considering topics in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture, its theory and practice, as well as selected achievements by such great modernists as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn, Masheck also analyzes important monuments and architectural ideas of such artists as Giorgio di Chirico and Tony Smith. Contextualizing and culturally speculative, these studies address such issues as the distinction between architecture and "mere" building, and architecture and engineering, frequently drawing the reader into architectural problems that have…

Book details

List price: $99.99
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/28/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of illustrations


Sources [of previously published essays]


Introduction



Benthamï¿½s panopticon: an architectural perpetration



Politics of style: Dublin pro-cathedral in the Greek revival



An American utopian schoolhouse design



Note on Sullivan and the use of beauty



De Chiricoï¿½s pathos of lost antiquity



Text life of the living machine



Reflections in onyx on Mies van der Rohe



Ex Tenebras Lux: approaching the Ronchamp Wall of Light



Kahn: the anxious classicist



Crystalline form, Worringer and the minimalism of Tony Smith



Form behind concept: the Bechersï¿½ imaging of industrial architecture



Classical Sass: Notes on soft postmodernism



Tired tropes: cathedral vs bicycle shed


ï¿½Duckï¿½ vs. decorated shed


Notes


Index