Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies. Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg : : The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe / / Nicholas Adams.
In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015] ©2014 |
| Año de Publicación: | 2015 |
| Lenguaje: | English |
| Colección: | Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies ;
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 152 illustrations |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Translation
- Introduction: Public Architecture in the Modern World
- Chapter 1. Sweden: Gothenburg and Its Courthouse
- Chapter 2. Asplund’s Multiple Visions, 1913–1937
- Chapter 3. Asplund’s Building and Modern Law
- Chapter 4. Asplund’s Reputation and the Catastrophic Reception
- Chapter 5. Managing Modernisms at Home
- Chapter 6. Public Architecture After Asplund
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index