Modern architecture A critical history
Book - 2007
- Subjects
- Published
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London ; New York :
Thames & Hudson
2007.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 4th ed
- Physical Description
- 424 p. : ill., plans ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-412) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780500203958
- Introduction
- Part I. Cultural developments and predisposing techniques 1750-1939
- 1. Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical architecture 1750-1900
- 2. Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800-1909
- 3. Technical transformations: structural engineering 1775-1939
- Part II. A critical history 1836-1967
- 1. News from Nowhere: England 1836-1924
- 2. Adler and Sullivan: the Auditorium and the high rise 1886-95
- 3. Frank Lloyd Wright and the myth of the Prairie 1890-1916
- 4. Structural Rationalism and the influence of Viollet-le-Duc: Gaudi, Horta, Guimard and Berlage 1880-1910
- 5. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School 1896-1916
- 6. The Sacred Spring: Wagner, Olbrich and Hoffmann 1886-1912
- 7. Antonio Sant'Elia and Futurist architecture 1909-14
- 8. Adolf Loos and the crisis of culture 1896-1931
- 9. Henry van de Velde and the abstraction of empathy 1895-1914
- 10. Tony Garnier and the Industrial City 1899-1918
- 11. Auguste Perret: the evolution of Classical Rationalism 1899-1925
- 12. The Deutsche Werkbund 1898-1927
- 13. The Glass Chain: European architectural Expressionism 1910-25
- 14. The Bauhaus: the evolution of an idea 1919-32
- 15. The New Objectivity: Germany, Holland and Switzerland 1923-33
- 16. De Stijl: the evolution and dissolution of Neo-Plasticism 1917-31
- 17. Le Corbusier and the Esprit Nouveau 1907-31
- 18. Mies van der Rohe and the significance of fact 1921-33
- 19. The New Collectivity: art and architecture in the Soviet Union 1918-32
- 20. Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse 1928-46
- 21. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Disappearing City 1929-63
- 22. Alvar Aalto and the Nordic tradition: National Romanticism and the Doricist sensibility 1895-1957
- 23. Giuseppe Terragni and the architecture of Italian Rationalism 1926-43
- 24. Architecture and the State: ideology and representation 1914-43
- 25. Le Corbusier and the monumentalization of the vernacular 1930-60
- 26. Mies van der Rohe and the monumentalization of technique 1933-67
- 27. The Eclipse of the New Deal: Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn 1934-64
- Part III. Critical assessment and extension into the present 1925-91
- 1. The International Style: theme and variations 1925-65
- 2. New Brutalism and the architecture of the Welfare State: England 1949-59
- 3. The vicissitudes of ideology: CIAM and Team X, critique and counter-critique 1928-68
- 4. Place, Production and Scenography: international theory and practice since 1962
- 5. Critical Regionalism: modern architecture and cultural identity
- 6. World architecture and reflective practice
- 7. Architecture in the Age of Globalization: topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality, habitat and civic form 1975-2007
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index