Form Follows Fun: Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925-1940

by Bruce Peter

Book Overview

Authoritative and readable, this excellent text, illustrated by a unique pictorial record of period architecture, surveys and examines how and why the architecture of pleasure related to the stylistic and ideological concerns of modernism in 1930s Britain.

Responding to the current interest in modernism and packed with a substantial archive of high quality photographs and other documentation, it relates the professional, entrepreneurial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041542819X
• ISBN13: 9780415428194
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.6"