Modern : the modern movement in Britain / Alan Powers ; photography by Morley von Sternberg.

Main entry:

Powers, Alan, 1955-

Title & Author:

Modern : the modern movement in Britain / Alan Powers ; photography by Morley von Sternberg.

Publication:

London ; New York : Merrell, 2005.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237) and index.
Introduction -- A decade of modernism : 1930-1940 -- Architects of the modern movement -- The post-war legacy -- Conservation of the modern movement in Britain.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Encyclopedic in scope and structure, this comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain covers the work of such renowned architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, together with specially commissioned photographs of all the major extant buildings.

ISBN:

1858942551 (hbk.)
9781858942551 (hbk.)

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture) Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain 20th century.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne 20e siècle.
Architecture
Modern movement (Architecture)
Gebouwen.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Architecten.
Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Von Sternberg, Morley.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237294
Call No.: BIB 167113
Status: Available

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