Modern architecture : representation & reality
Title:
Modern architecture : representation & reality
Author:
Levine, Neil, 1941-
ISBN:
9780300145670
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.
Physical Description:
x, 364 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Contents:
Castle Howard and the subject matter of history -- The appearance of truth and the truth of appearance in Laugier's primitive hut -- From imitation to abstraction in the neoclassicism of Boullâee, Soane, and Schinkel -- Pugin, Labrouste, and the new realism of decorated construction -- Essays in the erosion of representation by Viollet-Le-Duc and Louis Sullivan -- Representation without history in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright -- The reemergence of representation out of abstraction in Mies van der Rohe -- The aesthetic of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn.
Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1012/2009017329-b.html