Modernist Architecture (eBook)

International Concepts Come to Britain

Keith Hasted (Autor)

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2019
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-1-78500-620-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Modernist architecture in Britain brought honesty to the structure of buildings and clean lines free of historical ornament to the style, establishing new ideas on how people could live and work. Where did this architecture come from? And who were the British and emigre architects creating Modernism in the UK? This book tells the story of Modernist architecture, from nineteenth-century Chicago to post-war Britain, concluding with a look at the continuing evolution of architectural style, from Post-Modern to the work of Zaha Hadid. Supported by over 150 photographs of buildings and design features from around the world, coverage includes: new methods from Chicago in the 1890s, opening up building options for Modernist architects in the new century; Frank Lloyd Wright and development of the Prairie Style; how Modernist architecture evolved in Britain; the progress of European Modernist architecture; the significance and far-reaching influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and finally, post-war development in Britain.

Autor

Keith Hasted is an architectural historian teaching an Oxford University's Continuing Education programme and for the Worker's Educational Association in the South East. With a Masters based on research into Italian Renaissance palace architecture, he has since developed a special interest in the links through to Modern Architecture, particularly in his work with groups at the Oxford University Summer Schools.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: 1890s • 1920s • 1930s • Architect • Architecture • Bankside power station • Bauhaus • Brief • Britannic House • Brunswick Centre • Building • burnham and root • Charles-Edouard Jeanneret • Charles Holden • Charles Mackintosh • Charles Townsend • commission • Concept • Coventry cathedral • De La Warr Pavilion • Design • De Stijl • Edwin Lutyens • Elisabeth Scott • Erich Mendelsohn • Erno Goldfinger • Farnsworth House • Finsbury Health Centre • First World War • Florey Building • Frank Lloyd Wright • Gemeentemuseum • Hendrik Berlage • Henry Hobson Richardson • Herbert Greenwald • Hilversum Town Hall • IBM Building Chicago • James Stirling • Joseph Emberton • Lake Point Tower • Lake Shore Drive Apartments • Larkin Building: Robie House • Le Corbusier • Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral • louis sullivan • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe • metal frame • Midland Bank • modernist • modernist architecture • Monadnock Building • Mrs Thomas Gale House • Oliver Hill • Owen Williams • Peter Behrens • prairie style • Queen Anne style • Reliance Building • richard shaw • Royal Festival Hall • Schröder House • Seagram Building • Second World War • Serge Chermayeff • steel frame • The Amsterdam School • The Auditorium Building: Carson Pirie Scott and Company store • the Chicago School • The Commercial Union Tower • The Economist Buildings • The Illinois Institute of Technology • The National Theatre • Val Myer • Walter Gropius • Wenham Basset-Lowke • Willem Dudok • William Crabtree • William Le Baron Jenney • William Lethaby
• ISBN-10: 1-78500-620-7 / 1785006207
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78500-620-3 / 9781785006203