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THE FUNDAMENTALS OF...
Explore the building blocks of modern architecture— from first idea to finished building. The Fundamentals of Architecture, like the other books in the successful "Fundamentals "series, gives a comprehensive introduction to the basics of its subject— the building-block ideas behind architecture, interior design, and the graphic language of planning space.
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
May 1884 saw the publication in Paris of a fin de siècle novel that became a perverse sensation on the European cultural scene. A ReboursAgainst the Grain and Against Nature) by Joris-Karl Huysmans was written as a seductive textbook of decadence, an antidote to the "banality" of the dominant literary styles, Naturalism and Realism. Symbolism, whose influence would endure well into the modernist era, was an artistic religion-substitute, a spiritually charged cult of beauty.