About this title: Mark Wigley offers an understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores a feature of modern architecture - white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative masquerade costumes worn by 19th-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing - the newly athletic body of the building, like that of its occupants, wears a new kind of garment and these garments are meant to match. Not only did almost all modern architects literally design dresses, Wigley points out, their arguments for a ...
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Description: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket; The MIT Press; 1995; Hardcover; Marker stripe on the bottom edge. 0262231859. Black/white illustrations throughout. Undermining the rigid distinction between fashion and functionalism that has structured the discourses of modern architecture ever since the 1920s, Wiglet revisits the 19th century origins of modernism to expose the suppressed yet crucially important problematics of fashion, dress, decoration and color that modern architecture's canonical white walls ... read more
Description: Very good. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1995. Very good clean condition. Text clean. Some general scuffs and creasing to dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1996-02-23
ISBN-13:9780262231855ISBN:0262231859
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Description: pp. 424. Book condition is AS NEW; book is tight and crisp; boards and manuscript pages are bright; no markings in text. DJ condition is AS NEW; bright and crisp. English. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780262231855ISBN:0262231859
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Near Fine in near Fine. Very minor wear to edges. Jacket in protective mylar wrap. Text block tight, clean and neat. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 424 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780262231855ISBN:0262231859
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. VG++ in VG+. Minor edge wear and light scuffing to jacket. Text block tight, clean and neat. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 424 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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