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Subject(s)

• Architecture, Modern—20th century [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 690-719) and index.

Contents

• 1. The idea of a modern architecture in the nineteenth century
• 2. Industrialization and the city: The skyscraper as type and symbol
• 3. The search for new forms and the problems of ornament
• 4. Rationalism, the engineering tradition and reinforced concrete
• 5. Arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the U.S.A.
• 6. Responses to mechanization: the Deutscher Werkbund and futurism
• 7. The architectural system of Frank Lloyd Wright
• 8. National myths and classical transformations
• 9. Cubism, de stijl and new conceptions of space
• 10. Le Corbusier's quest for ideal form
• 11. Walter Gropius, German expressionism and the Bauhaus
• 12. Architecture and revolution in Russia
• 13. Skyscraper and suburb: The U.S.A. between the wars
• 14. The ideal community: Alternatives to the industrial city
• 15. The international style, the individual talent and the myth of functionalism
• 16. The image and idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy --
• 17. The continuity of older traditions
• 18. Nature and the machine: Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s
• 19. The spread of modern architecture to Britain and Scandinavia
• 20. Totalitarian critiques of the modern movement
• 21. International, national, regional: The diversity of a new tradition
• 22. Modern architecture in the U.S.A.: Immigration and consolidation
• 23. Form and meaning in the late works of Le Corbusier
• 24. The unite d'habitation at Marseilles as a collective housing prototype
• 25. Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian developments
• 26. Disjunctions and continuities in the Europe of the 1950s
• 27. The process of absorption: Latin America, Australia, Japan
• 28. On monuments and monumentality: Louis I. Kahn
• 29. Architecture and anti-architecture in Britain
• 30. Extension and critique in the 1960s
• 31. Modernity, tradition and identity in the developing world
• 32. Pluralism in the 1970s --
• 33. Modern architecture and memory: New perceptions of the past
• 34. The universal and the local: Landscape, climate and culture
• 35. Technology, abstraction and ideas of nature
• Conclusion: Modernity, tradition, authenticity.

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ISBN

0132322730

OCLC

35598120

RCP

C - S

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