Building-Art - Modern Architecture under Cultural Construction (Hardcover)

Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction is an anthology of essays by noted critic Joseph Masheck. Considering topics in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture, its theory and practice, as well as selected achievements by such great modernists as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn, Masheck also analyzes important monuments and architectural ideas of such artists as Giorgio di Chirico and Tony Smith. Contextualizing and culturally speculative, these studies address such issues as the distinction between architecture and "mere" building, and architecture and engineering, frequently drawing the reader into architectural problems that have persisted for at least two centuries. Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s, which are particularly relevant in light of Postmodernism's demise. Joseph Masheck, editor-in-chief of Artforum from 1977-1980, is Associate Professor of Art History and coordinator of the graduate humanities program at Hofstra University. He is the author of several books and many articles.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Contemporary Artists and their Critics
Release date:	May 1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	Joseph Masheck
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	318
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-44013-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture
LSN:	0-521-44013-0
Barcode:	9780521440134

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