Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism
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- Synopsis
- Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration. Mark Crinson here shows how the ideals represented by the Tower of Babel – built, so the story goes, by people united by one language – were effectively adapted by internationalist architecture, its styles and practices, in the modern period. Focusing particularly on the points of convergence between modernist and internationalist trends in the 1920s, and again in the immediate post-war years, he underlines how such architecture utilised the themes of a cooperative community of builders and a common language of forms.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781786722034
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781784537128
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 03/04/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Mark Crinson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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