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• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 10 April 2012

Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 30,5 Mb
• Release Date : 12 March 2012

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 55,8 Mb
• Release Date : 03 May 2024

In the late 19th century the conventions of domesticity came under scrutiny by British writers & others intent on bringing a modern spirit into the home. Rosner reveals the connections between

• Publisher : JHU Press
• File Size : 43,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2013

Our built environment inspires writers to reflect on the human experience, discover its history, or make it up. Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are “documents” of

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 50,8 Mb
• Release Date : 26 March 2020

Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British

• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
• File Size : 33,9 Mb
• Release Date : 11 August 2017

Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany’s built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges

• Publisher : Chronicle Books
• File Size : 32,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 November 2019

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 38,8 Mb
• Release Date : 26 November 2020

This edited volume, Modern Architecture and the Sacred, presents a timely reappraisal of the manifold engagements that modern architecture has had with 'the sacred'. It comprises fourteen individual chapters arranged

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 November 2010

This set of essays challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism's part in the transnational development

• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 10 March 2017

Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories