Mediating modernism: architectural cultures in Britain/

Main Author: Higgott, Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York: Routledge, 2007
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260 |a London ;  |b Routledge,  |c 2007  |a New York: 
300 |a viii, 216 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Making it new: the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain -- The mission of modernism: James Richards and the architectural review -- The forgetting of art: the Abercrombie plan for post-war London -- The shift to the specific: the new interpretation of materiality in brutalism and the functional tradition -- The opposite of architecture: archigram and architectural design in the sixties -- Searching for the subject: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School -- Architecture as discourse: rethinking the culture of architecture. 
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