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The Sources of Mode Architecture and Design (World of Art)
by: Nikolaus Pevsner (Author), Kenneth Frampton (Foreword)
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 2024-06-04
Language: English
Print length: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 050029769X
ISBN-13: 9780500297698
Book Description
An updated edition of this classic survey of the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.The tu of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, leading to the emergence of two contrasting styles: art nouveau and the Inteational Style. Professor Nikolaus Pevsner brings clarity to this period of dynamic change by tracing the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.Featuring a new foreword by the distinguished architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, The Sources of Mode Architecture and Design has now been updated with color illustrations throughout. 196 color illustrations
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\nAn updated edition of this classic survey of the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.The tu of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, leading to the emergence of two contrasting styles: art nouveau and the Inteational Style. Professor Nikolaus Pevsner brings clarity to this period of dynamic change by tracing the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.Featuring a new foreword by the distinguished architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, The Sources of Mode Architecture and Design has now been updated with color illustrations throughout. 196 color illustrations
