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- ISBN 9780631229438
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 158 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2003
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment.
- Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment.
- Presents crucial "moments" in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances.
- Provides a view of architectural history as a part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social and cultural imperatives.
- Part of the New Interventions in Art History Series, which is published in conjunction with the Association of Art Historians.
Andrew Ballantyne is Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of Architecture, Landscape and Liberty: Richard Payne Knight and the Picturesque (1997), What is Architecture? (2002), and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2002).
