Related Books

Invisible Cathedrals
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Neil H. Donahue
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Penn State Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Invisible Cathedrals places Wilhelm Worringer in the foreground of discussions of Expressionism and German Modernism for the first time. These essays not only r
The Crystal Chain Letters
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Iain Boyd Whyte
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985-01 - Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Crystal Chain - "Die glaserne Kette" - was a utopian correspondence initiated by Bruno Taut in 1919-1920, in which a small group of like-minded architects a
Utopia
Language: en
Pages: 505
Authors: David Ayers
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-14 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify
Architectural Theory, Volume 2
Language: en
Pages: 660
Authors: Harry Francis Mallgrave
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-11 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of architectural theory from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 until the
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: A. M. Pusca
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-20 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the int