The details of modern architecture
By: Edward R. Ford.
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Architecture -- Details.; Architecture, Modern -- 19th century.; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
Description: v.1, covering 1890-1932, focuses on various recognized architects, explaining the detailing and construction techniques that distort, camouflage, or enhance a building. v.2 continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction in modern architecture from the late 1920s to the present.
Notes: Vol. 2 has subtitle: 1928-1988.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: V. 1. H.H. Richardson, Ralph Adams Cram, and the Gothic revival; title: McKim, Mead & White and classical rationalism; title: Edwin Lutyens and the language of classicism; title: Arts and crafts movement: the Greene brothers and their English contemporaries; title: Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park; title: Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos: Viennese rationalism; title: Le Corbusier: The classic villas; title: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the steel frame; title: Residential construction in America: Rudolf Schindler, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; title: Frank Lloyd Wright: The Usonian period. v. 2. Eliel Saarinen in Detroit: 1926-1940; title: Conversion of Erik Gunnar Asplund: 1930-1940; title: Richard Neutra and the architecture of surface: 1933-1952; title: Alvar Aalto nd Marcel Breuer: Light, industrialization and the vernacular, 1928-1963; title: Le Corbusier after 1928: 1928-1965; title: Saarinen, Eames, Fuller and the case study houses: 1940-1959; title: Eero Saarinen after 1945: 1945-1962; title: Louis Kahn, Sigurd Lewerentz and the new brutalism: 1954-1974; title: Venturis, Graves, Scarpa and the layers of history: 1963-1984; title: High tech, deconstruction, and the present day: 1972-1988.