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Making It Modern : The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York City : Actar D, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781945150272
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making It ModernDDC classification:
  • 724.6
LOC classification:
  • NA682.M63 B487 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- What Modern Is -- Space Opens Up -- Staging Modernity -- A New Style of Life -- At Home in the Brave New World -- Building Like Crystals, Forms as Cold Ice -- Toward Totality -- The Human Form Endures -- Wooden Ships -- After Modernism -- Re-Modernism -- Selected readings -- Index of names -- Illustration credits.
Summary: Traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life, and the attempts to represent them in the construction of a modernist world.
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Intro -- What Modern Is -- Space Opens Up -- Staging Modernity -- A New Style of Life -- At Home in the Brave New World -- Building Like Crystals, Forms as Cold Ice -- Toward Totality -- The Human Form Endures -- Wooden Ships -- After Modernism -- Re-Modernism -- Selected readings -- Index of names -- Illustration credits.

Traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life, and the attempts to represent them in the construction of a modernist world.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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