Modernism and the spirit of the city / edited by Iain Boyd Whyte.

Contributor(s):

Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781135158675
1135158673
9780203857656
0203857658
1135158665
9781135158668

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernism and the spirit of the city.DDC classification:

711/.4/0940904 22

LOC classification:

NA9010 .M63 2003eb

Other classification:

21.62

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Contents:

From locus genii to heart of the city : embracing the spirit of the city / Volker M. Welter -- Straight or crooked streets? The contested rational spirit of the modern metropolis / David Frisby -- August Endell : the spirit and the beauty of the city / Helge David -- Embodying the spirit of the metropolis : the Warenhaus Wertheim, Berlin, 1896-1904 / Helen Shiner -- The Hamburg Bismarck as city crown and national monument / Karen Lang -- The lantern and the glass : on the themes of renewal and dwelling in Le Corbusier's Purist art and architecture / Dagmar Motycka Weston -- 'Cities more fair to become the dwelling place of Thy children' : transcendent modernity in British urban reconstruction / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe -- Privet : theologies of privacy in some modernist urbanism / Rob Stone -- Rudolf Schwarz, the Hochstadt, and the reconstruction of Cologne / Rudolf Stegers.

Summary: "This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished scholars focus on the city as the dominant generator of social, political and cultural institutions and structures in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe"--Publisher description

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index.

"This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not been admitted to the standard histories of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. Nine chapters by distinguished scholars focus on the city as the dominant generator of social, political and cultural institutions and structures in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe"--Publisher description