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Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Autor(a) de Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar To The Cold War

10 Works 70 Membros 1 Review

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Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. She is author of Architecture since 1400 and editor of Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War, both from Minnesota.

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Instead of the traditional discussion of style and analysis of space, the author aims "to reconstruct the story of how environments are created that shape experience and communicate identity through the ways in which spaces are formed and surfaces are decorated." The examples in the book, which moves chronologically and geographically from front to back (starting in China in the early 1400s and ending in the same country in present day), are diverse in terms of place (Asia and South America are afforded as much importance as Europe and North America, though Africa is the focus of only one of the thirty chapters) and architect/builder (encompassing more buildings than those designed by well known architects), making it an atypical history of architecture when compared to Sir Banister Fletcher, Trachtenberg and Hyman, and other standard textbook histories. The bite-sized chapters – thirty of them across 488 pages, or an average of 16 illustrated pages per chapter – make the book a handy reference when students and architects want to get a different perspective on buildings in a particular place and time. Further, references at the end of each chapter give the reader good places to go for more depth than what James-Chakraborty's book allows.… (mais)
 
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archidose | Dec 17, 2023 |

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10
Membros
70
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#248,179
Avaliação
3.0
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1
ISBN
22

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