The search for form in art and architecture / Eliel Saarinen.

Main entry:

Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950.

Title & Author:

The search for form in art and architecture / Eliel Saarinen.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1985.

Description:

xviii, 354 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: Search for form. New York : Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1948 (1950 printing).
Forward -- Preamble -- Part One -- Part Two -- Part Three -- Epilogue.

Summary:

Important philosophical volume by foremost architectural conceptualist emphasizes organic design, interrelated study of all arts. He provides introductory, retrospective, and prospective analysis, explores the creative instinct, organic order, form and vitality, form and time, form and logic, form and function, the dogmatic, mechanized, and the creative mind, and more.--pub. desc.

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ISBN:

0486249077 (pbk.)
9780486249070 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophy.
Art Philosophie.
Filosofia da arte.
Teoria da arquitetura.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 129345
Call No.: ID:86-B6824
Status: Available

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