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Architecture and cubism / edited and with an introduction by Eve Blau and Nancy J. Troy ; essays by David Cottington [and others].

Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1997.

xi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

A fundamental tenet of the historiography of modern architecture holds that cubism forges a vital link between avant-garde practices in early twentieth-century painting and architecture.

Cubism (Architecture) -- Europe.

Cubism -- Europe -- Influence.

Blau, Eve.

Troy, Nancy J.

Cottington, David.

Centre canadien d'architecture.

"Many of the essays in this book were originally presented at a colloquium organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Maison Cubiste and the meaning of modernism in pre-1914 France / David Cottington -- The burden of Cubism : the French imprint on Czech architecture, 1910-1914 / Irene Žantovská Murray -- Cubism and the Gothic tradition / Kevin D. Murphy -- "Architecture" in Léger's essays, 1913-1933 / Robert L. Herbert -- Architecture of the Cubist poem / Jay Bochner -- The cell in the city / Paul Overy -- Where are we? / Beatriz Colomina -- Unnatural acts : propositions for a new French garden, 1920-1930 / Dorothée Imbert -- Cubistic, Cubic, and Cubist / Yve-Alain Bois -- Jeanneret-Le Corbusier, painter-architect / Bruno Reichlin -- Anything but literal : Sigfried Giedion and the reception of Cubism in Germany / Detlef Mertins.

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