Modern Architecture and Design: An Alternative History

by Bill Risebero

Book Overview

This brisk tour of buildings, engineering projects, and artifacts produced throughout the world is a sequel to the author's very successful first book, The Story of Western Architecture, It traces the history of modern architecture, together with relevant developments in design and technology, from the early 19th century to the present day. Risebero relates changing architectural ideas to changing currents in Western thought, to Marx, to Nietzsche,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262181088
• ISBN13: 9780262181082
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.