Modern Architecture : A Critical History

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Introduction

Pt. 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 Pt. 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. Miesvan 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

Pt. 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 Acknowledgments

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Index

Éditeur : Thames & Hudson (1992) Format : Broché - 376 pages 3rd édition ISBN : 0500202575 Dimensions (en cm) : 3 x 15 x 21