Envisioning Architecture

by Mcquaid, Matilda

• ISBN13: 9780810962217
• ISBN10: 0810962217
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-25
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

The first in a series of three titles that will showcase selected works from The Museum of Modern Art's superlative holdings in the fields of architecture and design, this hand-some volume features a wide range of drawings by great architects of the modern age, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as contemporary practitioners Rem Koolhaas, Frank O. Gehry, and Zaha Hadid. Their drawings and watercolors combine exacting detail with astonishing beauty. The full-page illustrations, expertly reproduced in color or black-and-white according to the original drawing, reveal not only the range of aesthetic viewpoints but also the development of architecture over the last century.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(2)
Acknowledgments	8	(2)
Drawn into a Collection: A Context of Practices	10	(8)
Terence Riley
Acquiring Architecture: Building a Modern Collection	18	(20)
Matilda McQuaid
Plates	38	(215)
Paola Antonelli
Bevin Cline
Tina di Carlo
Melanie Domino
Luisa Lorch
Matilda McQuaid
Peter Reed
Terence Riley
Index	253	(3)
Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art	256