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Pedestrian modern : shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956

'Pedestrian Modern' shows that stores and shopping centres were integral to the shaping of modernism in the middle decades of the 20th century. Rather than framing store work as some parallel or lesser realm of architectural work tied only to consumption or suburbanisation, as is the typic...

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Autor principal: Smiley, David J. (Autor)
Formato: Online Resource Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013
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USA
Acceso en línea:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816679294.001.0001
Publicación relacionada:Erscheint auch als: Pedestrian modern
Notas de Autor:David Smiley
E-Book Packages:Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Architecture
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Sumario:'Pedestrian Modern' shows that stores and shopping centres were integral to the shaping of modernism in the middle decades of the 20th century. Rather than framing store work as some parallel or lesser realm of architectural work tied only to consumption or suburbanisation, as is the typical view, this book shows that store and shopping centre design work were described as uniquely fitting for the emerging tenets of modernist architecture.
Descripción Física:Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xi, 357 pages))
ISBN:9781452948089