The Decorated Diagram: Harvard Architecture and the Failure of the Bauhaus Legacy - Couverture souple

Herdeg, Klaus W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 026258073X ISBN 13 : 9780262580731

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1985

Synopsis

In answering the critic Clement Greenberg's query "why all those ugly buildings?" Klaus Herdeg lays the blame directly at the feet of Walter Gropius and the curriculum at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Herdeg contends that the work of many of America's leading architects who studied under Gropius-Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei. John Johannsen, and Edward Barnes among them - commands visual interest through an almost total absence of design, resulting in the banal and sterile quality of so much of modern architecture. He builds his case through meticulous comparisons of dozens of buildings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Klaus Herdeg is Professor of Architecture at Columbia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 026258073X
• ISBN 13: 9780262580731
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 133
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