Levine, Neil 1941-

Modern architecture : representation & reality / txt Neil Levine. - x, 364 p. ill. (some col.) 29 cm. book

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Castle Howard and the subject matter of history -- The appearance of truth and the truth of appearance in Laugier's primitive hut -- From imitation to abstraction in the neoclassicism of Boullée, Soane, and Schinkel -- Pugin, Labrouste, and the new realism of decorated construction -- Essays in the erosion of representation by Viollet-Le-Duc and Louis Sullivan -- Representation without history in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright -- The reemergence of representation out of abstraction in Mies van der Rohe -- The aesthetic of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn.

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Architecture, Modern--18th century.
Architecture, Modern--20th century.
Architecture, Modern--19th century.

NA500 / L48 2010