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020 _a9781138642485
082 _a720.1
_bPOE
100 _aPoerschke, Ute
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245 _aArchitectural theory of modernism : relating functions and forms
260 _aNew York
_bRoutledge
_c2016
300 _aviii,241,ip.
505 _aCONTENTS 1 What are Architectural Functions? 1 On Terms 2 The Relationship between Scientific and Architectural Understandings of Function 4 Functions and Purposes 19 2 Function and Representation 28 Carlo Lodoli 28 Francesco Algarotti 43 Francesco Milizia 48 Andrea Memmo 51 Impact 54 3 Form and Function in the Structured Whole 61 Gottfried Semper 61 Karl Bötticher 69 The Organic 72 Function and Style 78 Semper’s and Bötticher’s Influence 83 Louis Sullivan: “form follows function” 88 Frank Lloyd Wright 93 4 Concepts of Function in High Modernism 104 Hannes Meyer 104 ABC 112 Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus 116 Adolf Behne, Hugo Häring, and Erich Mendelsohn 122 Extra-architectural Influences 128 Conclusions 138 Functionalism 141 5 Functionalism and Its Criticism 151 CIAM and the Functional City 152 Jane Jacobs and Alexander Mitscherlich 163 Postmodernism 166 Monofunctionalism, Naive Functionalism, Construction Industry Functionalism 175 6 Functions and Forms in the Architecture of the Information Society 189 Space of Flows, Space of Places, Global Cities 194 The Architectural Discourse of the Environmental Movements 203 Performativity in Architecture 207 Computer Simulations 213 Reconsidering Architectural Functions 216 Bibliography 222 Image Sources 236 Index 238
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