Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment
- ISBN-10
- 0804753431
- ISBN-13
- 9780804753432
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 265
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Authors
- Maiken Umbach, Bernd-Rüdiger Hüppauf
Description
Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.
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- 2018
- 198 pages
- Paperback
- Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
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