Architectures : modernism and after by Ballantyne, Andrew instant download

Architectures : modernism and after by Ballantyne, Andrew instant download

xiv, 255 pages : 24 cm, \"This collection of essays brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment from 1851 to the present time, showing how buildings and our responses to them are embedded in the cultural process and the ethics of production.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index, Introduction: architectures in the plural / Andrew Ballantyne -- An avant-garde academy / Simon Sadler -- Aalto and the tutelary goddesses / Sarah Menin -- Becoming-skyscraper: Ayn Rand's architect / Gerard Loughlin -- Steps toward a sustainable architecture / Brenda and Robert Vale -- Gordon Matta-Clark's building dissections / Stephen Walker -- Territoriality and identity at RAF / Menwith Hill, David Wood -- Domestic space transformed, 1850-2000 / Elizabeth Cromley -- English townscape as cultural and symbolic capital / Andrew Law