The armageddon of architecture and design /

This book examines why there is a lack of humanity in current architecture that produces such ghastly environmental errors. It brings together a selective study of past historical styles and works of art since primitive times in order to understand how the evolution of design was broken in the 20th...

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Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsman: Sully, Anthony (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.
Länkar:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3423418
Innehållsförteckning:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Early signs from Mesopotamia to the Romans
  • Chapter 2: The Middle Ages - 5th to 15th Century AD, Renaissance to Neo-Classicism 18th Century
  • Chapter 3: Nineteenth Century, the Victorians from 1830, Arts and Crafts Movement 1850-1920, Art Nouveau 1890-1910
  • Chapter 4: Art Deco, De Stijl, the Bauhaus, the Modern Movement, Period of Detachment Post WW2
  • Chapter 5: Crash Bang Wallop, Architectural disasters - answering the question: What has gone wrong?
  • Chapter 6: Progress