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Modern Architecture: A Critical History
by Kenneth Frampton
This widely acclaimed survey of 20th-century architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980.
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Interior Design of the 20th Century
by Anne Massey
The Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic Movements, Art Nouveau, the Modern Movement, its rivals Art Deco and the Moderne, Pop, Op, Surrealism, Hi-Tech, Post-Modernism, Deconstructivism, and many other styles of interior design are charted in this concise but wide-ranging survey. Dr Anne Massey introduces all the styles, signposts the changes of direction and fully documents the emergence of professional 'interior decoration' and its evolution into interior design.
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Twentieth-Century Design
by Jonathan M. Woodham
'an excellent framework for understanding the development of design in this century... destined to become the standard text in this field' -- Professor Dennis Doordan, University of Notre Dame.
'authoritative and accessible to the scholar and general reader alike' -- Professor Christopher Bailey, University of Northumbria at Newcastle.
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Le Corbusier and Decoration
Le Corbusier, as a Modernist architect and designer, had always supported the ideals of simple and honest design, and therefore he did not compromise with decorative arts, or what we now call Art Deco. Decorative arts, for Le Corbusier, should be separated from the tools; he also blamed the deceit in ornamentation, as it disguised the flaws in manufacture, i.e. that it hides faults or poor quality of materials used.
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Le Corbusier's 5 Points of Architecture
Les 5 Points d' une architecture nouvelle, which Le Corbusier finally formulated in 1926 included (1) the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground, (2) the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the space, (3) the free facade, the corollary of the free plan in the vertical plane, (4) the long horizontal sliding window and finally (5) the roof garden, restoring, supposedly, the area of ground covered by the house.
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City Planning
Through the development of domestic architecture, especially that of country houses, the Arts and Crafts movement paved the way for new trends in city planning.
In 1898 Sir Ebenezer Howard, who had been thinking about a quality of life better than that possible in overcrowded and dirty industrial towns, published his book Garden Cities of Tomorrow.
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Architecture and Design in Nazi Germany
The Nazi revolution in Germany needed architecture to bequeath a new image to history, and to offer contemporary society a strong rallying point. The Classical, monumental style replaced the modern style. In the 1930s, nationalism for the first time took solid form as nationalist art.
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