White Walls, Designer Dresses
The Fashioning of Modern Architecture
Mark Wigley

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Author(s)

Mark Wigley

Publication, year

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2001 (first published in 1995)

Scope

424 Pages, illustrated, 26 cm.

ISBN

0262731452

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Not only did almost all modern architects literally design dresses, but their arguments for a modern architecture were taken from the logic of clothing reform. Architecture was understood as a form of dress design. The white wall itself is a form of clothing, the newly athletic body of the building.

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Location

Cabinet 31 - 2: Lichaam en architectuur

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.