Modern architecture : representation & reality / Neil Levine.

By: Levine, Neil, 1941-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009Description: x, 364 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN: 9780300145670 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Architecture, Modern -- 18th century | Architecture, Modern -- 19th century | Architecture, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 724 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Castle Howard and the subject matter of history -- The appearance of truth and the truth of appearance in Laugier's primitive hut -- From imitation to abstraction in the neoclassicism of Boullée, Soane, and Schinkel -- Pugin, Labrouste, and the new realism of decorated construction -- Essays in the erosion of representation by Viollet-Le-Duc and Louis Sullivan -- Representation without history in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright -- The reemergence of representation out of abstraction in Mies van der Rohe -- The aesthetic of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Castle Howard and the subject matter of history -- The appearance of truth and the truth of appearance in Laugier's primitive hut -- From imitation to abstraction in the neoclassicism of Boullée, Soane, and Schinkel -- Pugin, Labrouste, and the new realism of decorated construction -- Essays in the erosion of representation by Viollet-Le-Duc and Louis Sullivan -- Representation without history in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright -- The reemergence of representation out of abstraction in Mies van der Rohe -- The aesthetic of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn.

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