Details of Modern Architecture Vol. 2 : 1928 to 1988

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• Details of Modern Architecture Vol. 2 : 1928 to 1988 available on December 13 2017 from ECampus for 41.61
  
• ISBN bar code 9780262562027 ξ1 registered July 21 2013
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 9780262562027N
  

This second volume of 'The Details of Modern Architecture continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture, beginning in the late 1920s and extending to the present day. It contains a wealth of new information on the construction of modern architecture at a variety of scales from minute details to general principles. There are over 500 illustrations, including 130 original photographs and 230 original axonometric drawings, arranged to explain the technical, aesthetic, and historical aspects of the building form.Most of the modern movements in architecture have identified some paradigm of good construction, arguing that buildings should be built like Gothic cathedrals, like airplanes, like automobiles, like ships, or like primitive dwellings. Ford examines the degree to which these models were followed, either in spirit or in form, and reveals much about both the theories and techniques of modern architecture, including the extent to which the current constructional theories of High Tech an

^ (2013). Details of Modern Architecture Vol. 2 : 1928 to 1988 ECampus. ISBN 9780262562027 (revised Dec 2017)