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Modernism on trial: An analysis of historic preservation debates in Chicago.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modernism on trial: An analysis of historic preservation debates in Chicago./
Author:	Mitchell, Stephen M.
Description:	124 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International53-04(E).
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1562602
ISBN:	9781321100495

Modernism on trial: An analysis of historic preservation debates in Chicago.
Mitchell, Stephen M.

Modernism on trial: An analysis of historic preservation debates in Chicago. - 124 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 53-04.

Thesis (M.S.)--Illinois State University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis explores preservation issues regarding modernist architecture in Chicago. As urban and public history research, the project examines the new questions brought to the forefront by recent controversies over the preservation of modernist architecture. Modernism, and an "all concrete" variant known as "Brutalism," popular in the mid-twentieth century, aimed to remove ornament and historical references common in neoclassical, neo-Gothic, Beaux Arts, and Art Deco architecture and replace them with minimal, clean, glass-and-steel buildings. Modernists who, on principle, did not believe in preservation of past forms are now in the unlikely position of making such an argument for their own buildings. Never widely embraced in the first place, Brutalism's concrete facades seemed less and less to reflect aesthetic tastes as architects turned back toward historicist styles by the 1980s. As such buildings have grown older, they have become a part of debates within cities across the United States about preservation and the built environment, frequently becoming entangled with city politics and economic interests.

ISBN: 9781321100495Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Modernism on trial: An analysis of historic preservation debates in Chicago.
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