Hart's 20th Century Architecture Encyclopedia - (Third Edition)

Author: Lamp
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This dictionary includes 511 entries and 606 illustrations, along with numerous bibliographies, summarizing all aspects of 20th-century architecture. The 15 years between the previous edition of the 20th Century Architecture Encyclopedia and this new edition have been a period of both turmoil and expanding influence for architectural culture. The single historical view of 20th-century architectural development, which emerged from the Modern Movement and extended into the 1960s, was shattered no later than the 1980s. Replaced by a diverse landscape, orthodox modernism did not maintain long-term consistency but instead fragmented into numerous branches. Over the past 15 years, globally influential and extensive, positive research in architectural history has confirmed this broad, less biased perspective, and new findings and insights have further enriched the situation. The result is a particularly rich, complex, and contradictory history of 20th-century architecture, composed of many such historical phenomena. This dictionary features 511 new or fundamentally revised entries, with illustrations expanded to 606, along with numerous bibliographies, covering all aspects of 20th-century architecture: it introduces important architects, clarifies the development of architecture in various countries, and introduces influential styles, movements, and groups, thereby moving beyond the narrative of individual achievements to fully describe the broader overall trend. This will also attract laypeople interested in the subject. Renowned art historians and architectural critics, known for their eloquence, have collaborated to support these reliable and precise explanations.