Architecture Today
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (932 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0714840971 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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This work is a comprehensive overview of architecture worldwide since the 1960s. A guide to the many and varied contemporary architectural trends, it leads the reader through the styles and movements of architecture in the latter half of the 20th century.
This beautifully produced book is a one-volume course on postwar architecture and the social and political milieu in which it exists. The back of the book includes brief architect's biographies, chapter notes, a lengthy bibliography, and a chronology from 1945 to 1997. Steele can list the sources of Post-Modernist architecture (correcting the popular view that the movement was an attempt to do away with Modernism) or suggestively draw a correspondence between the roofscape of Gustav Peichl's Federal A
. James Steele is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has written a number of books including Pierre Koenig, Los Angeles Architecture and Queen Mary, all published by Phaidon
Comprehensive Overview Of Contemporary Architecture James Steele's mammoth compendium of modern architecture is as definitive as can be imagined. The book combines fascinating text, highlighting his years of professional knowledge, with amazing color photographs, to yield one of the most breathtaking large-format architectural books I have ever seen.. A Customer said Incredable overview of contemoraty big time designers. This book provides fabulous insite into contetemporary architects and designers. Also provides fab. design ideas for almost any space formal and informal.. The architecture of our time James Steele has assembled an impressive compendium of contemporary architecture up to 1997. The photographs are glorious and rightly dominate this book. The chapters correspond to various currents, more or less stemming from Modern Architecture, which is given a rather cursory review in the first c