White Walls, Designer Dresses

by Mark Wigley

Book Overview

In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing--the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262731452
• ISBN13: 9780262731454
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher