Hardback. Very Good. ISBN 0851393950 9780851393957 [GB]

ISBN10: 0851393950, ISBN13: 9780851393957, [publisher: The Architectural Press Ltd, London] Softcover No marks or inscriptions to contents. Creasing to lower corner of rear cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed/slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. 170pp. The Age of the Masters was an architectural revolution that lasted over fifty years of the last century. In the light of our discontent with this architecture, the author re-examines what the Masters were really trying to do, including, among others, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Mies van der Rohe. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.25 x 8.25 inches
[Hyde, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1978]
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Great Britain: The Architectural Press, Date: 1975. Trade Paperback. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Previous owners name written neatly to inside cover. Slight shelf wear to edges of cover. Much of our discontent with recent architecture stems from the fact that before the work of the Masters was properly understood it was widely and often insensitively copies; a case of the revolution devouring its fathers. it is time, therefore, to re-examine what the Masters were really trying to do. While they lived, this international network of friends, rivals, long distance correponsdents and even a few sworn enemies comprised some of the most powerful creative talents the western world has yet produced, and at least two men of towering genius - Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Their aspirations for the future of men, cities and society may have been thwarted - and their perceptions sometimes belied by events - but the prototypes they invented, for everything from chairs to national capitals, are enduringly reflected in the places we live and work today. Professor Banham's witty and perceptive book has the immediacy of direct reportage, for he came to know many of the Masters in their latter years. He writes of the ideas and concepts that made them revolutionary, but above all he writes of the great monuments they have left behind, from Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow Art School at the beginning of the century, to Mies van der Rohe's National Gallery in ...