Light, Air & Openness: Modern Architecture Between the Wars

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Thames & Hudson, 2007 - 256 pages
This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between the modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s and that era's preoccupations with health, cleanliness, fresh air and sunshine, exploring how utopian notions of the 'clean machine' and the hygienist movement inspired the pure geometric forms and sparkling surfaces of early modernist buildings. Anyone with an interest in architecture and/or modernism will find this original approach to a popular theme both engaging and enlightening.

À propos de l'auteur (2007)

Paul Overy was educated at King's College, Cambridge. He lectures on the history of art, architecture and design at London University, the London Institute and Middlesex Polytechnic and as been an art critic for The Times, The Financial Times and The Listener. He is the author of Kandinsky: The Language of the Eye (1969) and an earlier volume on De Stijl and is co-author of The Rietveld Schroder House (1988).

Informations bibliographiques

TitreLight, Air & Openness: Modern Architecture Between the Wars
AuteurPaul Overy
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurThames & Hudson, 2007
ISBN0500342423, 9780500342428
Longueur256 pages
  
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