The architecture of Europe. - YARWOOD, DOREEN.
KORTE INHOUD
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The richness and diversity of European architecture over the past two centuries is captured in this comprehensive survey with almost two hundred illustrations of building types in twenty-three countries, including Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. The book's breadth of geography and time give it a special place among treatments of the general subject. It illustrates how the nineteenth century, although primarily eclectic, produced a number of architectural successesâ??Haussmann's grandiose reshaping of Paris, Engel's classical Helsinki, the Gothic revivalism of the rebuilt Palace of Westminster. Doreen Yarwood shows that Art Nouveau was the first movement to break with this eclecticism, but that it nonetheless drew its inspiration from the past. She illustrates how the modern movement, developed in some countries between the wars, used concrete, steel, and glass for strength and simplicity. Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and others used this approach to great effect; in the 1950s it ...
The richness and diversity of European architecture over the past two centuries is captured in this comprehensive survey with almost two hundred illustrations of building types in twenty-three countries, including Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. The book's breadth of geography and time give it a special place among treatments of the general subject. It illustrates how the nineteenth century, although primarily eclectic, produced a number of architectural successesâ??Haussmann's grandiose reshaping of Paris, Engel's classical Helsinki, the Gothic revivalism of the rebuilt Palace of Westminster. Doreen Yarwood shows that Art Nouveau was the first movement to break with this eclecticism, but that it nonetheless drew its inspiration from the past. She illustrates how the modern movement, developed in some countries between the wars, used concrete, steel, and glass for strength and simplicity. Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and others used this approach to great effect; in the 1950s it ...
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1987, 598pp, hardcover, goed exemplaar [Auteur: Doreen Yarwood] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Spring Books] [Jaar: 1987] [Titel: The Architecture of Europe]
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Orig. printed boards. 598 pp. With b&w figures, maps, plans and 48 pp. plates.; 26cm. - (small piece cut out of endpaper, sl. worn, although still VG) ¶ Originally published: London : Batsford, 1974. [Auteur: YARWOOD, DOREEN.] [Uitgever: London : Spring Books] [Jaar: 1987] [Titel: The architecture of Europe.]
