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Architectures
Andrew Ballantyne
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Description for Architectures
Paperback. * 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. * Presents crucial "moments" in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances. Editor(s): Ballantyne, Andrew. Series: New Interventions in Art History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8. BIC Classification: AMA; AMC; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment.
- 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.
- Presents crucial "moments" in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances.
- Provides a view of architectural history as a part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social and cultural imperatives.
- Part of the New Interventions in Art History Series, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
New Interventions in Art History
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631229445
SKU
V9780631229445
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99-50
About Andrew Ballantyne
Andrew Ballantyne is Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of Architecture, Landscape and Liberty: Richard Payne Knight and the Picturesque (1997), What is Architecture? (2002), and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2002).
Reviews for Architectures
"This collection of stimulating essays delights in the variety and diversity of modern architecture through differing processes of story telling and the analysis of facts. This is a book for the reader able to embrace plurality. Those who seek a singular vision will need to look elsewhere." Robert Tavernor, University of Bath "Wide-ranging ... Read more