Architectural Theory of Modernism: Relating Functions and Forms

Architectural Theory of Modernism: Relating Functions and Forms
ISBN-10
131724561X
ISBN-13
9781317245612
Category
Architecture
Pages
242
Language
English
Published
2016-04-20
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Ute Poerschke

Description

Architectural Theory of Modernism presents an overview of the discourse on function-form concepts from the beginnings, in the eighteenth century, to its peak in High Modernism. Functionalist thinking and its postmodern criticism during the second half of the twentieth century is explored, as well as today's functionalism in the context of systems theory, sustainability, digital design, and the information society. The book covers, among others, the theories of Carlo Lodoli, Gottfried Semper, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hannes Meyer, Adolf Behne, CIAM, Jane Jacobs, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Charles Jencks, William Mitchell, and Manuel Castells.

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