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The Modern Architecture Symposia, 1962–1966: A Critical Edition
Joan Ockman
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Description for The Modern Architecture Symposia, 1962–1966: A Critical Edition
Hardback. Editor(s): Bletter, Rosemarie Haag; Ockman, Joan. Num Pages: 340 pages, 123 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 263 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1310.
In a series of three symposia at Columbia University in the 1960s, leading scholars and critics gathered to re-examine the architecture of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s and assess its scope and significance anew. Chaired by Henry-Russell Hitchcock with the support of Philip Johnson, the Modern Architecture Symposia marked a pivotal moment in the reappraisal of early modern architecture and its historiography during the late modern period. This book contains the symposia's formal papers and informal conversations, the majority unpublished and presented for the first time as a group, and offers new insight into the architects, ideologies, stylistic influences, and ... Read more
In a series of three symposia at Columbia University in the 1960s, leading scholars and critics gathered to re-examine the architecture of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s and assess its scope and significance anew. Chaired by Henry-Russell Hitchcock with the support of Philip Johnson, the Modern Architecture Symposia marked a pivotal moment in the reappraisal of early modern architecture and its historiography during the late modern period. This book contains the symposia's formal papers and informal conversations, the majority unpublished and presented for the first time as a group, and offers new insight into the architects, ideologies, stylistic influences, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300209952
SKU
V9780300209952
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About Joan Ockman
Rosemarie Haag Bletter is professor emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Joan Ockman is a distinguished senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, and former director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University. Nancy Eklund Later is an editor specializing in books on architecture and ... Read more
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