Modern Architecture and Other Essays

Vincent Scully

400 pages, parution le 03/10/2005

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Résumé

Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made.

This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is characteristically Scully--provocative, yet precise in detail and observation, written with passionate clarity. They document Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi.

In the tradition of great intellectual biographies, this finely made book chronicles our most influential architectural historian and critic. It is a gift to architecture and its history.

L'auteur - Vincent Scully

Vincent Scully is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University and the author of many books, including The Shingle Style, Frank Lloyd Wright, Modern Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy, American Architecture and Urbanism, and Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Vincent Scully: A Bibliographical Sketch
American Villas: Inventiveness in the American Suburb from Downing to Wright
Wright vs. International Style
Archetype and Order in Recent American Architecture
Modern Architecture: Toward a Redefinition of Style
The Nature of the Classical in Art
Frank Lloyd Wright and Twentieth[Century Style
The Death of the Street
Doldrums in the Suburbs
RIBA Discourse 1969: A Search for Principle between Two Wars
Where is Modern Architecture Going?
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Stuff of Dreams
Architecture, Sculpture, and painting: Environment, Act, and Illusion
Le Corbusier, 1922[1965
Introduction to ''The Lois I. Kahn Archive: Personal Drawings'
Robert Venturi's Gentle Architecture
Architecture: The Natural and the Mammade
Louis I. Kahn and the Ruins of Rome
Everybody Needs Everything
The Architecture of Community
America at the Millennium: Architecture and Community
Bibliography of Vincent Scully's Writings
Index
Text and Photography Credits

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Princeton University Press
Auteur(s)	Vincent Scully
Parution	03/10/2005
Nb. de pages	400
Format	20 x 25,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1201g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780691074429
ISBN13	978-0-691-07442-9