Environmental design : architecture, politics, and science in postwar America / Avigail Sachs.

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Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate architectural practice to evolving scientific knowledge about humans and environments, thus elevating the discipl...

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Main Author: Sachs, Avigail (Author)
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Series:Midcentury (Charlottesville, Va.)
Subjects:
Architecture and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Architecture > Human factors > United States > History > 20th century.
Democracy and architecture > United States > History > 20th century.
Architecture > Study and teaching > United States > History > 20th century.
Architecture and society.
Architecture > Human factors.
Architecture > Study and teaching.
Democracy and architecture.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Format: Book

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Call Number: NA2543.S6 S225 2018
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