[ebooks] The Television Genre Book by G. Creeber in Arts-Photography

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Architectural Theory of Modernism presents an overview of the discourse on function-form concepts from the beginnings; in the eighteenth century; to its peak in High Modernism. Functionalist thinking and its postmodern criticism during the second half of the twentieth century is explored; as well as todays functionalism in the context of systems theory; sustainability; digital design; and the information society.The book covers; among others; the theories of Carlo Lodoli; Gottfried Semper; Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc; Louis Sullivan; Frank Lloyd Wright; Hannes Meyer; Adolf Behne; CIAM; Jane Jacobs; Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown; Charles Jencks; William Mitchell; and Manuel Castells.