Monument builders : modern architecture and death / Edwin Heathcote
1999, 1st edition. Chichester, West Sussex : Academy Editions. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #386494
ISBN: 0471983683
Physical description; 224 pp., color illustrations, 32 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 222) and index. Contents; MODERNISM, ARCHITECTURE AND DEATH -- I. Houses of the dead : cities of the dead -- II. Et in Arcadia ego -- III. The necropolis : a resurrected archetype -- IV. Buried cities : dead cities -- V. The architecture of shadows -- VI. The Parisian Elysium -- VII. John Soane : display, dwelling and death -- VIII. Death and the birth of modernism : the Fin de Siècle and the sepluchre -- IX. Consumed by flames -- X. The prism, the pyramid, the glass mountain : Expressionism, Cubism and the architecture of death -- XI. War memorials : the expression of wasted life -- XII. Between the wars : the monumental era -- XIII. Italy : modernism, classicism, monumentalism, rationalism -- XIV. Modernism and the functional language of death -- XV. The paradox of the modernist movement : a new approach -- XVI. Holocaust memorials -- XVII. The Holocaust and the creation of memory -- XVIII. Epilogue -- Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz -- Joz e Plec nik -- Takefumi Aida -- David Chipperfield Architects -- Wim Cuyvers -- Karin Daan -- Laureano Forero -- Herman Hertzberger -- Ove Hidemark -- Ishimoto -- Arata Isozaki -- Christian Kerez -- András Krizsán -- Dennis Lau and Ng Chen Man -- Maya Lin -- Kunio Maekawa -- Fumihiko Maki -- Imre Makovecz -- Ingrid Mayr and Jorg Mayr -- Enric Miralles -- Hans Nout -- Arnaldo Pomodoro -- Aldo Rossi -- Moshe Safdie -- Stanley Saitowitz -- Carlo Scarpa -- Heinz Tesar -- Rachel Whiteread -- Peter Eisenman. Subjects; Geschichte 1900-1995. Sepulchral monuments. Mausoleums. Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Price: €60.00