Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

by Adam Sharr

Book Overview

Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval pasts into strikingly plain reflections of novel materials, functions, and technologies. Modern architecture promised the transformation of cities from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198783442
• ISBN13: 9780198783442
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.8"