Bruno Zevi on modern architecture / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean.

Main entry:

Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer, author.

Title & Author:

Bruno Zevi on modern architecture / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1983.

Description:

218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218).
Foreword / Peter Blake -- Introduction -- A struggle against fascism, a battle against Giedion -- For modernism and history as its instrument -- The search for a modern language of architecture -- On architecture and criticism today -- Appendix I. Essays and articles -- Appendix II. Speeches -- Zevi as consulting critic : buildings and town plans.

Summary:

"Bruno Zevi is regarded as the foremost European interpreter of the American tradition of Richardson, Sullivan and Wright. His book Architecture as Space has educated a generation of architects. Well-known as the editor of L'Architettura and Metron he also has a weekly column in L'Espresso. In this study, Andrea Oppenheimer Dean (senior editor of the AIA Journal) clarifies Zevi's principal contributions to the criticism of modern architecture. Her presentation is not an evaluation of his thinking, but an examination of how it evolved. Zevi emphasizes the social responsibility of architects and critics to work together toward new ideas and experiments, to learn from such innovators as Michelangelo, Borromini, William Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Einstein and Schönberg. Included are biographical notes, a selected bibliography and appendices which collect Zevi's most influencial speeches, articles and essays, some published for the first time in English."--Back cover.

ISBN:

0847804879 (pbk.)
9780847804870 (pbk.)

Subject:

Zevi, Bruno, 1918-2000 Criticism and interpretation.
Zevi, Bruno, 1918-2000.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Zevi, Bruno, 1918-2000.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 155775
Call No.: NA44.Z63.9 D4 1983
Copy: copy 2
Status: Available

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