Modern Architecture Since 1900

by Curtis, William J R

• ISBN13: 9780714835242
• ISBN10: 0714835242
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-27
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

This work on 20th-century architecture combines a clear general outline withnalysis and interpretation of particular buildings. While technical,conomic, social and intellectual developments are fully treated, the finalmphasis is on individuals and on the qualities that give buildings theirasting value.;For this revised and updated third edition, an appreciation ofegional identity and variety has been incorporated, and also a section onecent architecture. There are many new colour illustrations, plans andrawings. The bibliography and notes have also been extended. This book setshe Modern tradition in perspective, relating it to earlier traditions, andnalyzing its richness and complexity.

Author Biography

William Curtis has won worldwide acclaim for his architectural writing. His books include Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms and Denys Lasdun, both published by Phaidon.

Table of Contents

Prefaces	p. 7
Introduction	p. 11
The Idea of a Modern Architecture in the Nineteenth Century	p. 21
Industrialization and the City: The Skyscraper as Type and Symbol	p. 33
The Search for New Forms and the Problem of Ornament	p. 53
Rationalism, the Engineering Tradition and Reinforced Concrete	p. 73
Arts and Crafts Ideals in Britain and the U.S.A.	p. 87
Responses to Mechanization: The Deutscher Werkbund and Futurism	p. 99
The Architectural System of Frank Lloyd Wright	p. 113
National Myths and Classical Transformations	p. 131
Cubism, De Stijl and New Conceptions of Space	p. 149
Le Corbusier's Quest for Ideal Form	p. 163
Walter Gropius, German Expressionism and the Bauhaus	p. 183
Architecture and Revolution in Russia	p. 201
Skyscraper and Suburb: The U.S.A. Between the Wars	p. 217
The Ideal Community: Alternatives to the Industrial City	p. 241
The International Style, the Individual Talent and the Myth of Functionalism	p. 257
The Image and Idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy	p. 275
The Continuity of Older Traditions	p. 289
Nature and the Machine: Mies Van Der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930S	p. 305
The Spread of Modern Architecture to Britain and Scandinavia	p. 329
Totalitarian Critiques of the Modern Movement	p. 351
International, National, Regional: The Diversity of a New Tradition	p. 371
Modern Architecture in the U.S.A.: Immigration and Consolidation	p. 395
Form and Meaning in the Late Works of Le Corbusier	p. 417
The Unite D'habitation at Marseilles as a Collective Housing Prototype	p. 437
Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian Developments	p. 453
Disjunctions and Continuities in the Europe of the 1950S	p. 471
The Process of Absorption: Latin America, Australia, Japan	p. 491
On Monuments and Monumentality: Louis I. Kahn	p. 513
Architecture and Anti-Architecture in Britain	p. 529
Extension and Critique in the 1960S	p. 547
Modernity, Tradition and Identity in the Developing World	p. 567
Pluralism in the 1970S	p. 589
Modern Architecture and Memory: New Perceptions of the Past	p. 617
The Universal and the Local: Landscape, Climate and Culture	p. 635
Technology, Abstraction and Ideas of Nature	p. 657
Conclusion: Modernity, Tradition, Authenticity	p. 685
Bibliographical Note	p. 690
Notes	p. 693
Index	p. 720
Acknowledgements	p. 735
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