Joze Plecnik: Architect 1872-1957
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9780262521765
ISBN:0262521768
Pub Date: 1992Publisher: MIT Press Summary: The Yugoslavian architect Joze Plecnik followed what he believed to be a coherent language of architecture in trying to "build a better world through architecture." He cannot be classified in terms of any of the movements - modernism, classicism, secessionism, eclecticism, regionalism, and the like that characterize the turbulent aesthetic tendencies of this century. Instead, as these essays by leading European schol [read more]
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9780262521765
ISBN:
0262521768
Pub Date: 1992
Publisher: MIT Press
The Yugoslavian architect Joze Plecnik followed what he believed to be a coherent language of architecture in trying to "build a better world through architecture." He cannot be classified in terms of any of the movements - modernism, classicism, secessionism, eclecticism, regionalism, and the like that characterize the turbulent aesthetic tendencies of this century. Instead, as these essays by leading European scholars and the 300 accompanying illustrations of his work show, Plecnik's long career offers an invaluable example of the richness and diversity of early modern architecture. Francois Burkhardt is Advisor to the President of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
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