Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by Reyner Banham
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First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced a generation of students and critics interested in the formation of attitudes, themes, and forms which were characteristic of artists and architects working primarily in Europe between 1900 and 1930 under the compulsion of new technological show more developments in the first machine age. show lessTags
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Illuminating on early 20th century art, design and architecture, especially De Stjil and Bauhaus. Dense with references so keep Google handy.
Monograph Library - shelved at: B10
shelved at: 91 : Architecture
shelved at: 91 : Architecture
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