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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, which is published in conjunction with the Association of Art Historians.
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- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editor ’s Preface
- Preface
- Introduction:Architectures in the Plural
- 1 An Avant-garde Academy
- 2 Aalto and the Tutelary Goddesses
- 3 Becoming-skyscraper:Ayn Rand ’s Architect
- 4 Steps Toward a Sustainable Architecture
- 5 Gordon Matta-Clark ’s Building Dissections
- 6 Territoriality and Identity at RAF Menwith Hill
- 7 Domestic Space Transformed,1850 –2000
- 8 English Townscape as Cultural and Symbolic Capital
- Bibliography
- Index