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Architecture and modern literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In its extensive coverage of architecture and its multifaceted production from 1900 to 2000, the encyclopedia of twentiethcentury architecture encompasses a farreaching range of international architectural subjects to provide a fundamental understanding of the centurys prominent architects and their buildings. In 1923, le corbusier published his architectural manifesto, vers une architecture, which formulated the basic tenets of his philosophy, and would go on to be the bestselling architecture book of all time. The unprecedented global scope of this collection of over 750 key buildings juxtaposes architectural icons with regional masterpieces. Western architecture western architecture architecture at the turn of the 21st century.
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Art book news annual this scholarly encyclopedia provides an indepth examination of the development of architecture in the 20th century. The illustrated introduction gives a brief overview of the development of architecture in the twentieth century, paying particular attention to. In turnofthecentury chicago, frank lloyd wright had developed the prairie style of architecture, associated with low, horizontal silhouettes, deep eaves, open plans and a highly integrated ornamental program based, not on historical forms, but on geometry and nature. Architecture and nature at the end of the 20th century. Use the search window to search by architects name, museum house name or.
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