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The necessity of artifice : ideas in architecture / Joseph Rykwert.

By: Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Rizzoli, 1982Description: 143 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 084780402X; 9780847804023.Subject(s): Symbolism in architecture | Communication in architectural design | Decoration and ornament, ArchitecturalDDC classification: 720.1
Contents:
Meaning and building -- The modern movement in Italian architecture -- The sitting position-a question of method -- The Corinthian order -- The dark side of Bauhaus -- Two houses by Eileen Gray -- The necessity of artifice -- The nefarious influence on modern architecture of the neo-classical architects Boullee and Durand -- Adolf Loos: the new vision -- The 15th triennale -- Art as things seen -- One way of thinking about a house -- Two-dimensional art for two dimensional man: on Klein and Manzoni -- Ornament is no crime -- Learning from the street -- Lodoli on function and representation -- Semper and the conception of style -- The purpose of ceremonies.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending 720.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00152135
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Meaning and building -- The modern movement in Italian architecture -- The sitting position-a question of method -- The Corinthian order -- The dark side of Bauhaus -- Two houses by Eileen Gray -- The necessity of artifice -- The nefarious influence on modern architecture of the neo-classical architects Boullee and Durand -- Adolf Loos: the new vision -- The 15th triennale -- Art as things seen -- One way of thinking about a house -- Two-dimensional art for two dimensional man: on Klein and Manzoni -- Ornament is no crime -- Learning from the street -- Lodoli on function and representation -- Semper and the conception of style -- The purpose of ceremonies.

UCC Fund.