| Edition |
3rd ed |
| Description |
736 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
KH-AUL-1. |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 690-719). |
| Contents |
Prefaces 7;Introduction 11;1 The Idea of a Modern Architecture in the Nineteenth Century 21;2 Industrialization and the City: The Skyscraper as Type and Symbol 33;3 The Search for New Forms and the Problem of Ornament 53;4 Rationalism, the Engineering Tradition and Reinforced Concrete 73;5 Arts and Crafts Ideals in Britain and the U.S.A. 87;6 Responses to Mechanization: The Deutscher Werkbund and Futurism 99;7 The Architectural System of Frank Lloyd Wright 113;8 National Myths and Classical Transformations 131;9 Cubism, De Stijl and New Conceptions of Space 149;10 Le Corbusier's Quest for Ideal Form 163;11 Walter Gropius, German Expressionism and the Bauhaus 183;12 Architecture and Revolution in Russia 201;13 Skyscraper and Suburb: The U.S.A. Between the Wars 217;14 The Ideal Community: Alternatives to the Industrial City 241;15 The International Style, the Individual Talent and the Myth of Functionalism 257;16 The Image and Idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy 275;17 The Continuity of Older Traditions 289;18 Nature and the Machine: Mies Van Der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930S 305;19 The Spread of Modern Architecture to Britain and Scandinavia 329;20 Totalitarian Critiques of the Modern Movement 351;21 International, National, Regional: The Diversity of a New Tradition 371;22 Modern Architecture in the U.S.A.: Immigration and Consolidation 395;23 Form and Meaning in the Late Works of Le Corbusier 417;24 The Unite D'habitation at Marseilles as a Collective Housing Prototype 437;25 Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian Developments 453;26 Disjunctions and Continuities in the Europe of the 1950S 471;27 The Process of Absorption: Latin America, Australia, Japan 491;28 On Monuments and Monumentality: Louis I. Kahn 513;29 Architecture and Anti-Architecture in Britain 529;30 Extension and Critique in the 1960S 547;31 Modernity, Tradition and Identity in the Developing World 567;32 Pluralism in the 1970S 589;33 Modern Architecture and Memory: New Perceptions of the Past 617;34 The Universal and the Local: Landscape, Climate and Culture 635;35 Technology, Abstraction and Ideas of Nature 657;Conclusion: Modernity, Tradition, Authenticity 685;Bibliographical Note 690;Notes 693;Index 720;Acknowledgements 735. |
| Subject |
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
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| ISBN |
0714833568 (pbk.) |
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0714835242 |
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