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Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century Paperback - 2002
by Stanford Anderson
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- Title Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century
- Author Stanford Anderson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 444
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
- Date September 9, 2002
- ISBN 9780262511308 / 0262511304
- Weight 2.25 lbs (1.02 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 7.58 x 0.98 in (22.35 x 19.25 x 2.49 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99049154
- Dewey Decimal Code 720.92
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Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century [Englisch] von Stanford Anderson (Autor)
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Mit Pr, Auflage: Revised. Auflage: Revised. Softcover. 22,4 x 19,3 x 2,5 cm. Most histories of twentieth-century architecture cite Peter Behrens' influence on three of his protgs--Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier--and mention the turbine factory and arc lamp he designed for the German electrical firm AEG. Now Behrens' full contribution to the history of twentieth-century architecture is finally told, in Stanford Anderson's indispensable guide to one of the great designers of our century.The author was first attracted to Behrens as one of the emblematic figures in the development of architectural modernism. Over the years, he has reflected critically on the growing body of Behrens scholarship that has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as on the views of such tastemakers as Philip Johnson, who rejected Behrens' AEG Turbine Factory, the signature icon of his early experiments in modernism, in favor of his later conservatively classical work. Anderson now…
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