Modernism and the spirit of the city

Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and mon...

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Main Author: Whyte, Iain Boyd 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2002
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