Paul Overy es un distinguido estudioso de la historia del arte, la arquitectura y el diseño, cuyo trabajo profundiza en los matices de la cultura visual con una profunda perspicacia. Habiendo impartido extensas conferencias y contribuido como crítico de arte para publicaciones destacadas, se ha establecido como un agudo comentarista del panorama artístico. Su análisis a menudo explora la intrincada relación entre la forma y el significado, iluminando cómo los elementos visuales transmiten ideas y emociones más profundas. La escritura de Overy se caracteriza por su accesibilidad, haciendo que los complejos conceptos artísticos sean atractivos para un amplio público lector.
This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between the modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s and that eras preoccupations with health, cleanliness, fresh air and sunshine, exploring how utopian notions of the clean machine and the hygienist movement inspired the pure geometric forms and sparkling surfaces of early modernist buildings. Anyone with an interest in architecture and/or modernism will find this original approach to a popular theme both engaging and enlightening.
The ideas that later had such a marked influence on the architecture of Walter Gropius and others of the Bauhaus movement, and subsequently on commercial art and graphic design, were first advocated by the Dutch magazine De Stijl.