"A study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism. A major scholarly achievement of immense value to teachers, researchers and students interested in the material culture of the first half of the 20th century and the relation o…
From Los Angeles to London, and Beijing to Bilbao, cities around the world have sprouted 'iconic' buildings by celebrity architects that compete for attention both on the skyline and in the media. But in recent years, much criticism of extreme 'gestural' buildings, with their of…
From around 1800, particularly in Germany, Greek tragedy has been privileged in popular and scholarly discourse for its relation to apparently timeless metaphysical, existential, ethical, aesthetic, and psychological questions. As a major concern of modern philosophy, it has fas…
People associate the term Brutalism with concrete and, in the UK, with the Welfare State - just one thin slice of the Brutalist canon. Brutalism is not a style. It reveals enduring architectural ideas and interests that have emerged at different times and in different places, pr…
