Lewis Mumford and American Modernism
Eutopian Theories for Architecture and Urban Planning
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- Author: Robert Wojtowicz, Old Dominion University, Virginia
- Date Published: May 1998
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521639248
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Lewis Mumford and American Modernism examines the career and writings of America's leading critic of architecture and urbanism. The author of numerous books on the history of architecture, Mumford focused on the roles that technology and urbanism have played in modern civilization. Indeed, his writings have proved to be prescient, forming the basis for architecture and urban planning at a time of transition and redefinition at the end of the twentieth century.
Read more- Covers Mumford's career and theories including his friendship with Frank Lloyd Wright
- Discusses Mumford's criticism of New York City
- Analyses Mumford as an early proponent of regional planning
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"...Mumford's intellectual formation and professional career, the development and the content of his thoughts about American architectural criticism, and urban development, and his involvement in various planning initiatives are clearly presented and quite clearly and pithily set in the context of contemporaneous events." Choice
See more reviews"...readers may find entertainment and insight in this volume....it is broad in scope, chronologically organized, and clearly written, it touches upon a great many topics which are already of interest to many architectural historians and students of American culture." Joan Draper, Journal of the Society of Architectural History
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- Date Published: May 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521639248
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 179 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: the story of Mumford's Eutopia
Part I. The Education of a Critic: Part II. The Study of Architectural History: Part III. Towards an Organic Architectural Criticism: Part IV. Building the Regional City: Conclusion: Lewis Mumford, 1895–1990.
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