Architecture in Play: Intimations of Modernism in Architectural Toys

Author:   Tamar Zinger
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
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9780813937724


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 December 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Tamar Zinger
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
Imprint:   University of Virginia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.903kg
ISBN:  

9780813937724


ISBN 10:   0813937728
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Written in a clear, readable style, refreshingly free of jargon, Architecture in Play uses a number of prominent construction toys in Europe and the United States as examples of an interconnectedness between such toys and mainstream architectural thought. Tamar Zinguer's book broadens our understanding of the larger contextual field of architectural discourse.--Dietrich Neumann, Brown University, coeditor of Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination


Written in a clear, readable style, refreshingly free of jargon, Architecture in Play uses a number of prominent construction toys in Europe and the United States as examples of an interconnectedness between such toys and mainstream architectural thought. Tamar Zinguer's book broadens our understanding of the larger contextual field of architectural discourse. Dietrich Neumann, Brown University, coeditor of Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination .Tamar Zinguer is Associate Professor at the Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.Tamar Zinger (author)


Written in a clear, readable style, refreshingly free of jargon, Architecture in Play uses a number of prominent construction toys in Europe and the United States as examples of an interconnectedness between such toys and mainstream architectural thought. Tamar Zinguer's book broadens our understanding of the larger contextual field of architectural discourse. Dietrich Neumann, Brown University, coeditor of Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination.


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Tamar Zinguer is Associate Professor at the Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.

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