Principles of Modern Architecture

• Author(s): Christian Norberg-Schulz,
• Publisher: A. Papadakis
• Pages: 136
• ISBN_10: 1901092240
  ISBN_13: 9781901092240
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / General , Architecture / History / General ,

Description:... A clear, concise, accessible, copiously illustrated account by one of the world's leading architectural critics of what the Modern Movement really wanted and what it achieved. Christian Norberg-Schulz explains the basic tenets of the new architecture that came into being around the turn of the last century, a timely explanation in view of the many misconceptions currently in circulation.

All the basic principles are investigated and the volume concludes with a summing-up of the endeavors of Modern Architecture.