Title: Modern architecture since 1900 /
Authors: Curtis, William J. R.
Date: 1996
Publisher: Phaidon Press,
Physical description: 736 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: A survey of twentieth-century architecture, tracing the origins of the modern forms of architecture; looking at the crystallization of modern architecture between the wars; examining the global dissemination of modern architecture between the 1940s and the 1970s; and discussing the development of world architecture since 1980.
Contents: The Idea of a Modern Architecture in the Nineteenth Century -- Industrialization and the City: The Skyscraper as Type and Symbol -- The Search for New Forms and the Problem of Ornament -- Rationalism, the Engineering Tradition and Reinforced Concrete -- Arts and Crafts Ideals in Britain and the U.S.A. -- Responses to Mechanization: The Deutscher Werkbund and Futurism -- The Architectural System of Frank Lloyd Wright -- National Myths and Classical Transformations -- Cubism, De Stijl and New Conceptions of Space -- Le Corbusier's Quest for Ideal Form -- Walter Gropius, German Expressionism and the Bauhaus -- Architecture and Revolution in Russia -- Skyscraper and Suburb: The U.S.A. Between the Wars -- The Ideal Community: Alternatives to the Industrial City -- The International Style, the Individual Talent and the Myth of Functionalism -- The Image and Idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy -- The Continuity of Older Traditions -- Nature and the Machine: Mies Van Der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930S -- The Spread of Modern Architecture to Britain and Scandinavia -- Totalitarian Critiques of the Modern Movement -- International, National, Regional: The Diversity of a New Tradition -- Modern Architecture in the U.S.A.: Immigration and Consolidation -- Form and Meaning in the Late Works of Le Corbusier -- The Unite D'habitation at Marseilles as a Collective Housing Prototype -- Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian Developments -- Disjunctions and Continuities in the Europe of the 1950S -- The Process of Absorption: Latin America, Australia, Japan -- On Monuments and Monumentality: Louis I. Kahn -- Architecture and Anti-Architecture in Britain -- Extension and Critique in the 1960S -- Modernity, Tradition and Identity in the Developing World -- Pluralism in the 1970S -- Modern Architecture and Memory: New Perceptions of the Past -- The Universal and the Local: Landscape, Climate and Culture -- Technology, Abstraction and Ideas of Nature -- Conclusion: Modernity, Tradition, Authenticity.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Architecture, Modern--20th century.; Architecture, Modern--21st century