Modern Architecture and Other Essays
by Vincent Scully ; selected and with introductions by Neil Levine
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0691074410
- ISBN 13
- 9780691074412
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Winner of the Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award,2003. Contents: American villas: inventiveness in the American suburb from Downing to Wright -- Wright vs. the International style -- Archetype and order in recent American architecture -- Modern architecture: toward a redefinition of style -- The nature of the classical in art -- Frank Lloyd Wright and twentieth-century style -- The death of the street -- Doldrums in the suburbs -- RIBA discourse 1969: a search for principle between two wars -- Where is modern architecture going? -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the stuff of dreams -- Architecture, sculpture and painting: environment, act, and illusion -- Le Corbusier, 1922-1965 -- Introduction to The Louis I. Kahn Archive: personal drawings -- Robert Venturi's gentle architecture -- Architecture: the natural and the manmade -- Louis I. Kahn and the ruins of Rome -- Everybody needs everything -- The architecture of community -- America at the millennium: architecture and community. 399 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. First edition, first printing. Grey boards, cloth back, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Springhead Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015558
- Title
- Modern Architecture and Other Essays
- Author
- Vincent Scully ; selected and with introductions by Neil Levine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0691074410
- ISBN 13
- 9780691074412
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
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