Light, air & openness : modern architecture between the wars / Paul Overy.

Main entry:

Overy, Paul, 1940-2008.

Title & Author:

Light, air & openness : modern architecture between the wars / Paul Overy.

Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2007.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
With 66 illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-250) and index.
Health -- The city on the country -- The house of health -- Hygiene and cleanliness -- Home -- Dirt and decoration -- The domestic clinic -- Sun -- Mountains and the sea -- Built into the sun -- The outdoor room -- Water -- Water and bathing -- Washing and watching -- Factory -- The clean machine -- Manufacturing enlightenment -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"In this groundbreaking book, Paul Overy takes a fresh look at the geometric forms and sparkling surfaces of the new architecture. He explores the preoccupations of the period with air and sunshine, space, health, hygiene and whiteness, and how, together with the Utopian notions of 'the clean machine' and the model factory, these concerns became fundamental to the development of new architectural and design practices. Individual buildings, including both little-known and more familiar examples in Europe and the United States by architects such as Adolf Loos, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Jan Duiker, Berthold Lubetkin and Richard Neutra, are examined within the context of class and social control, luxury and austerity, race and colonialism." "Illustrated with many unusual photographs, including those that capture the buildings in their early state, Light, Air and Openness is an original and refreshing reinterpretation of the modern movement in architecture and design."--Jacket

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ISBN:

9780500342428 (hbk.)
0500342423 (hbk.)

Subject:

Europa
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Facility Design and Construction history
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architektur
USA
Architecture.

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Location: Library main 258704
Call No.: BIB 189496
Status: Available

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