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TitleGuild House

Creator nameVenturi, Robert

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1963

Object typeArchitecture

LocationPhiladelphia

SubjectsApartment buildingsArchitecture, American--20th centuryArchitecture, Postmodern--United StatesPublic housing--United States

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Conclusion: To Postmodernism and Back Again

Alice T. Friedman

American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture

The postwar decades clearly offered significant new opportunities for American architects—including Wright, Neutra, Lapidus, and a handful of younger men who were either born in the United States or had spent most of their lives there—to experiment with unconventional and innovative approaches to modern design. These challenges to established practice and to the hierarchy of the profession were clearly not welcomed by European modernism’s old guard. In the introduction to the fifth edition …

Author

Alice T. Friedman

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.225-231

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00012.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15081&redirecttoanchor=14904

Chapter subject tags:Architecture--United States--History--20th centuryArchitecture and society--United StatesAesthetics, Modern--20th centuryArchitecture, PostmodernMidcentury modern (Architecture)Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968

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