Building-Art: Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction

Joseph Masheck

ISBN 10: 0521440130 / ISBN 13: 9780521440134

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building-Art: Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521440130
• ISBN 13: 9780521440134
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 800 grams

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Synopsis

Building-Art 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 analyses important monuments and architectural ideas of such artists as Giorgio di Chirico and Tony Smith. Contextualising 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 persisted for at least two centuries. Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s, which are particularly relevant in the light of postmodernism's demise.

Book Description

Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s, which are particularly relevant in the light of Postmodernism's demise.