Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism eBook

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The phase of American architectural history we call ‘mid-century modernism,’ 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Hut Pavilion Shrine examines this crossroads of modernism and the archetypal, and critiques its buildings and theory. The book centers on one particularly important and omnipresent type, the pavilion – a type which was the basis of major work by Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Minoru Yamasaki, and other eminent architects. While focusing primarily on the architecture culture of the United States, it also includes the work of British, European Team X, and Scandinavian designers and writers. Making connections between formal analysis, historical context, and theory, the book continues lines of inquiry which have been pursued by Neil Levine and Anthony Vidler on representation, and by Sarah Goldhagen and Alice Friedman on modernism

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Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism is written by Samson, Miles David, Assoc Prof and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism are 9781409465850, 1409465853 and the print ISBNs are 9781409465836, 1409465837.