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An original and absorbing interpretation of the history of modern architecture, focusing on a continuous historical development rather than on issues of style



In this handsome book, esteemed architectural historian Neil Levine investigates for the first time the complex history of representation--the use and meaning of architectural signifiers--from the 18th through the 20th century. Using the lens of a continuous theoretical argument, Levine provides a detailed survey and critical analysis of major works by a host of modern architects, including Étienne-Louis Boullée, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Louis Kahn, Henri Labrouste, Augustus Welby Pugin, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, John Soane, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Levine posits that all modern architects, much like visual artists, have had to grapple with issues of representation in their work. Interweaving influential examples from outside the scope of modern architecture, Levine traces the history of representation in architecture, and in writings on architecture, both within each architect's oeuvre and throughout the centuries discussed. The book features previously unpublished images, many created for this publication, and it addresses a variety of specific cases while offering an original and panoramic view of the history of architecture. Beautifully written and accessible, Modern Architecture is destined to become a classic.

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Commencing with Emil Kaufmann's Von Ledoux bis Le Corbusier (From Ledoux to Le Corbusier) in 1933, the history of modern architecture has been perpetuated by scholars as a history of abstraction interrupted by the historicist preoccupations of the 19th century. In this extraordinary revisionist study, Levine (Harvard) proposes a new way of thinking about modern architecture as a continuous historical development based not on style but on the question of representation in architecture (with representation understood not as symbol but as "the form and structure of rhetoric rather than its outward effects"). Using eight case studies focused on specific works by Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, Laugier, Boullee, Soane, Schinkel, Pugin, Labrouste, Viollet-le-Duc, Sullivan, Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn, Levine brings to his subject a close reading of historical texts, buildings, and images of buildings; judiciously selected pairings (such as Pugin and Labrouste); a remarkable linguistic precision; and uncanny insights into the thought processes of the architects of modernism. If modernism has been simplified over 75 years, Levine reveals its true complexities in a book that challenges, fascinates, and rewards. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-level undergraduates and above. J. Quinan University at Buffalo, SUNY

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Neil Levine is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books on architecture, including The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.