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Modern architecture : being the Kahn lectures for 1930
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Modern architecture : being the Kahn lectures for 1930

Author: Frank Lloyd Wright; Neil Levine; Princeton University. Dept. of Art and Archaeology.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Series: Princeton monographs in art and archaeology.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A polemic against America's architectural eclecticism, commercial skyscrapers, and misguided urban planning. It moves from a general statement of the conditions of modern culture to applications in  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Frank Lloyd Wright; Neil Levine; Princeton University. Dept. of Art and Archaeology.
ISBN: 9780691129372 0691129371
OCLC Number: 195748978
Notes: Originally published: 1931; copyright renewed 1959.
Facsimile of 1931 version, with new introduction.
Text on endpapers.
Published for the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University.
Description: lxxv, 114 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Preface --
Machinery, materials and men --
Style in industry --
The passing of the cornice --
The cardboard house --
The tyranny of the skyscraper --
The city.
Series Title: Princeton monographs in art and archaeology.
Responsibility: by Frank Lloyd Wright ; with a new introduction by Neil Levine.

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The endpapers of Modern Architecture--which Princeton University Press has reissued in a facsimile of its original 1931 edition--are embellished with Wright aphorisms that recall the improving mottoes Read more...

 
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