From a cause to a style :: modernist architecture's encounter with the American city /

Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will bequeath to future generations. In From a Cause to a...

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1. Verfasser: Glazer, Nathan
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
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Zusammenfassung:Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will bequeath to future generations. In From a Cause to a Style, he proclaims his disappointment with modernism and its impact on the American city. Writing in the tradition of legendary American architectural critics Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs, Glazer contends that modernism, this new urban form that signaled not just a radical revolution in style but.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 300 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400827589
1400827582
1282157930
9781282157934
9786612157936
6612157933

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