Modern Architecture and Design: An Alternative HistoryBritish architect and planner Bill Risebero recreates 200 years of modern architecture and design against a backdrop of class dominance over rising industrialism. The lively and opinionated text and more than 1,000 captioned drawings by the author provide a refreshing reinterpretation of architectural developments in the modern period. |
Contents
List of illustrations | 9 |
The engineers 1 | 37 |
The philosophy of right | 50 |
How we live and how we might live | 78 |
59 | 90 |
The will to power | 106 |
The light that failed | 119 |
The state and revolution | 162 |
The rural poor | 203 |
Brave new world | 213 |
Select bibliography | 246 |
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