{"product_id":"building-art-modern-architecture-under-cultural-construction-hardback-9780521440134","title":"Building-Art; Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction (Hardback) 9780521440134","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBuilding-Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModern Architecture under Cultural Construction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDemonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph Masheck (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521440134, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 May 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e318 pages, 25 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.77 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBuilding-Art is an anthology of essays by noted critic Joseph Masheck. Considering topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture, its theory and practice, as well as selected achievements by such great modernists as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Louis Kahn, Masheck also analyses important monuments and architectural ideas of such artists as Giorgio di Chirico and Tony Smith. Contextualising and culturally speculative, these studies address such issues as the distinction between architecture and 'mere' building, and architecture and engineering, frequently drawing the reader into architectural problems that have persisted for at least two centuries. Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s, which are particularly relevant in the light of postmodernism's demise.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Sources [of previously published essays]\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bentham's panopticon: an architectural perpetration\u003cbr\u003e 2. Politics of style: Dublin pro-cathedral in the Greek revival\u003cbr\u003e 3. An American utopian schoolhouse design\u003cbr\u003e 4. Note on Sullivan and the use of beauty\u003cbr\u003e 5. De Chirico's pathos of lost antiquity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Text life of the living machine\u003cbr\u003e 7. Reflections in onyx on Mies van der Rohe\u003cbr\u003e 8. Ex Tenebras Lux: approaching the Ronchamp Wall of Light\u003cbr\u003e 9. Kahn: the anxious classicist\u003cbr\u003e 10. Crystalline form, Worringer and the minimalism of Tony Smith\u003cbr\u003e 11. Form behind concept: the Bechers' imaging of industrial architecture\u003cbr\u003e 12. Classical Sass: Notes on soft postmodernism\u003cbr\u003e 13. Tired tropes: cathedral vs. bicycle shed\u003cbr\u003e 'duck' vs. decorated shed\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theory of architecture [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theory of architecture\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theory%20of%20architecture%20%5BAMA%5D%22\"\u003eAMA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007299211544,"sku":"9780521440134","price":82.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521440134i_9e3a3d50-bea8-4a92-b0da-f6c0e132987e.jpg?v=1691381901","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/building-art-modern-architecture-under-cultural-construction-hardback-9780521440134","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}