White Walls, Designer Dresses
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In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing--the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262731452
ISBN13:9780262731454
Release Date:October 2001
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:452 Pages
Weight:2.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 8.0" x 9.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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