0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > History > Theory & methods

Buy Now

Modern Architecture and Other Essays (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,252
Discovery Miles 12 520
You Save: R133 (10%)
Modern Architecture and Other Essays (Paperback): Vincent Scully

Modern Architecture and Other Essays (Paperback)

Vincent Scully; Edited by Neil Levine

 (sign in to rate)
List price R1,385 Loot Price R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 | Repayment Terms: R117 pm x 12* You Save R133 (10%)

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made.

This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is characteristically Scully--provocative, yet precise in detail and observation, written with passionate clarity. They document Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi.

In the tradition of great intellectual biographies, this finely made book chronicles our most influential architectural historian and critic. It is a gift to architecture and its history.

General

Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2005
First published: August 2005
Authors: Vincent Scully
Editors: Neil Levine
Dimensions: 254 x 203 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-07442-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General
Books > History > Theory & methods > General
LSN: 0-691-07442-9
Barcode: 9780691074429

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

Partners