Art in Modern Architecture - Couverture souple

Bittermann, Eleanor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1258433761 ISBN 13 : 9781258433765

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

Excerpt from Art in Modern Architecture
The works of art are divided into chapters according to materials, but this somewhat arbitrary catalog device is merely a convenience in groupmg the illustrations, and there are many overlapping cases where entire build ings should be considered as an entity. Using materials as a basis for grouping the examples does not mean that materials are considered the most important factor in architectural art. The examples might just as well have been separated according to building types; or they might have been separated according to building elements such as interior and exterior walls, columns, doorways, windows, ceilings, oors, etc.
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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

United States only. This concentration on one geographical area was necessitated by the quantity of modern architectural art rather than a belief that American art is a completely isolated, individual style, even now. It seemed more important to present a limited and largely unexplored area of modern architectural art as thoroughly as possible rather than a superficial survey of the international field, which is all that would have been possible in a book of this size, even though the entire modern architectural art movement is intertwined and some of the illustrations chosen depend largely on foreign influences. The works of art are divided into chapters according to materials, but this somewhat arbitrary catalog device is merely a convenience in grouping the illustrations, and there are many overlapping cases where entire buildings should be considered as an entity. Using materials as a basis for grouping the examples does not mean that materials are considered the most important factor in architectural art. The examples might just as well have been separated according to building types; or they might have been separated according to building elements such as interior and exterior walls, columns, doorways, windows, ceilings, floors, etc. It was impossible to show work in all the materials available in any one field or to illustrate all the esthetic approaches to any one problem. Most of the examples were chosen because they were the best integrations of art and architecture to date. The present illustrations are limited to completed work, so there may be more good examples in one field than in another. However, it is too early to consider these fields particularly important. There are many excellent projects even now under way that were not completed in time for inclusion in this book, and these projects, plus work in the near future, may easily change the
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1258433761
• ISBN 13: 9781258433765
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible