Modern Architectural Landscape
Caroline Constant, "Modern Architectural Landscape"
English | ISBN: 0816676356 | 2012 | 344 pages | PDF | 25 MB
English | ISBN: 0816676356 | 2012 | 344 pages | PDF | 25 MB
In The Modern Architectural Landscape Caroline Constant examines diverse approaches to landscape in the work of architects practicing in Europe and the United States between 1915 and the mid-1980s. Case studies highlight landscapes in the public realm rather than the private garden, which had been a primary focus of much Western landscape theory and practice during the early decades of the century. These landscapes do more than accommodate the functional needs of the evolving mass society in parks, playgrounds, and places of assembly; they give formal expression to Modern Movement social and political ideologies, engaging the symbolic potential of the modern landscape—particularly in its ability to take on new, more democratic forms of social organization.
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