Search Results: Criticism from modern-ISM

Cambridge University Press, 2009. First Paperback Edition . Photographic Wraps. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy with a mild creases to forecorners andremainder mark, else Near Fine. 503 pp., epilogue, notes and index. Harry Mallgrave's comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere over three centuries of development. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, the words of the architects themselves as they contentiously shaped their particular niche of Western civilization over time.

Da Capo Press, 1993. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Near Fine copy with a neat, tape-mended corner curl. Originally published in 1929, this book demonstrates the architecture of the 1920s as the product of over a century of architectural development, despite the visual evidence that seemed to indicate that it had made a radical break with the past. "Modern Architecture" crystallised the history and theories behind the "international style" for an American audience. Hitchcock was only 27 at the time, and "Modern Architecture" was his first book; yet it would substantially reshape the way subsequent generations would view modern architecture and its history. Furthermore, "Modern Architecture" is the book that would establish Henry-Russell Hitchcock as a pre-eminent American historian of modern architecture.

Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2012. First Edition . Soft cover. As New. A crisp As New copy inscribed by author Susan Morgan on the title page. 143 pp. + "The Demise of the Dodge House" insert. Related ephemera laid in.