The Post-War University: Utopianist Campus and College

by Stefan Muthesius

A great expansion of universities in most of Western Europe and North America began in the late 1950s and continued to the early 1970s. In this comprehensive book, architectural historian Stefan Muthesius examines the post-war educational building boom and the rhetoric that surrounded it. He focuses on the period's widely shared utopianist beliefs that good planning and distinguished architecture could bring forth not only academically mature but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300087179
• ISBN13: 9780300087178
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 10.1"