Modern" is the most comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain ever published. Modern' is well printed (175dpi) and beautifully designed by Karen Wilks and with Alan Powers fine text the short-lived Modern movement in Britain gets a reference book it deserves.

Modern" is the most comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain ever published.

Alan Powers, Morley Von Sternberg (Photographs). Encyclopedic in scope and structure, this comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain covers the work of such renowned architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, together with specially commissioned photographs of all the major extant buildings.

240 pages : 28 cm. Encyclopedic in scope and structure, this comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain covers the work of such renowned architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer. Encyclopedic in scope and structure, this comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain covers the work of such renowned architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, together with specially commissioned photographs of all the major extant buildings. Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237) and index. Introduction - A decade of modernism : 1930-1940 - Architects of the modern movement - The post-war legacy - Conservation of the modern movement in Britain.

Alan Powers is a reader in architecture and cultural history at the University of Greenwich. He is the author of "Serge Chermayeff,"" The Twentieth Century House in Britain," and "Modern: The Modern Movement in Britain, Библиографические данные. Modern: the modern movement in Britain. Alan Powers, Morley Von Sternberg.

Alan Powers, Von Sternberg. Modern" is the most comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain ever published. Encyclopedic in scope and structure, it covers the work of such renowned architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Maxwell Fry, Erno Goldfinger, Berthold Lubetkin and others who changed the vocabulary of architecture in Britain between the wars.

Modern" is the most comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain . Morley von Sternberg is recognized as one of today's leading architectural photographers. His other books include Berthold Lubetkin (Merrell, 2002).

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Powers' introductory essay to this new book, occupying little more than 30 pages, leaves one wanting more - it is just a brilliant sketch

Powers' introductory essay to this new book, occupying little more than 30 pages, leaves one wanting more - it is just a brilliant sketch. He challenges the old orthodoxies of Pevsner, . Richards, Giedion and others, and convincingly argues the case for British Modernism as an evolution of Arts and Crafts thinking. Britons found a convenient route out of traditionalism in Scandinavian architecture - 'we would be wise to back the Swedes', P. Morton Shand wrote in 1930.