Modern architecture since 1900 /
"This book fills a long-felt need by providing a sound, readable and balanced overall view of the history of modern architecture. Dr Curtis examines the origins of the modern tradition in the late nineteenth century, and sets its development in a broad context that includes changing social and...
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Modern architecture since 1900 / |c William J.R. Curtis. |
| 260 | |a Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : |b Prentice-Hall, |c 1983, ©1982. | ||
| 300 | |a 416 pages : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-405) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g [Table of Contents] -- |t Preface -- |t Introduction -- |g PART 1. |t The Formative Strands of Modern Architecture -- |g 1. |t The Idea of a Modern Architecture in the Nineteenth Century -- |g 2. |t The Search for New Forms and the Problem of Ornament -- |g 3. |t Rationalism, the Engineering Tradition, and Reinforced Concrete -- |g 4. |t Arts and Crafts Ideals in England and the USA -- |g 5. |t Responses to Mechanization: the Deutscher Werkbund and Futurism -- |g 6. |t The Architectural System of Frank Lloyd Wright -- |g 7. |t Cubism and New Conceptions of Space -- |g PART 2. |t The Crystallization of Modern Architecture between the Wars -- |g 8. |t Le Corbusier's Quest for Ideal Form -- |g 9. |t Walter Gropius, German Expressionism, and the Bauhaus -- |g 10. |t Architecture and Revolution in Russia -- |g 11. |t Skyscraper and Suburb: American between the Wars -- |g 12. |t The Ideal Community: Alternatives to the Industrial City -- |g 13. |t The International Style, the Individual Talent, and the Myth of Functionalism -- |g 14. |t The Image and Idea of Le Corbuiser's Villa Savoye at Poissy -- |g 15. |t Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s -- |g 16. |t Totalitarian Critiques of the Modern Movement -- |g 17. |t The Spread of Modern Architecture to England and Scandinavia -- |g 18. |t The Continuity of Older Traditions -- |g PART 3. |t Transformation and Dissemination after 1940 -- |g 19. |t Modern Architecture in America: Immigration and Consolidation -- |g 20. |t Form and Meaning in the Late Works of Le Corbusier -- |g 21. |t The Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles as a Collective Housing Prototype -- |g 22. |t Alvar Aalto and the Scandinavian Tradition -- |g 23. |t Louis I. Kahn and the Challenge of Monumentality -- |g 24. |t Architecture and Anti-Architecture in England -- |g 25. |t The Problem of Regional Identity -- |g 26. |t Crises and Critiques in the 1960s -- |g 27. |t Modern Architecture and Developing Countries since 1960 -- |g 28. |t The Traditions of Modern Architecture in the Recent Past -- |t Conclusion: Modernity, Tradition and Authenticity -- |t Bibliographical note -- |t Notes -- |t Acknowledgements -- |t Index. |
| 520 | |a "This book fills a long-felt need by providing a sound, readable and balanced overall view of the history of modern architecture. Dr Curtis examines the origins of the modern tradition in the late nineteenth century, and sets its development in a broad context that includes changing social and technical conditions. Within this framework he emphasizes the variety of personal and regional strands within modern architecture. In developing his central theme of the growth of a modern tradition the author adopts an integrated approach that blends the practical, aesthetic and social dimensions - yet the stress is on the formal and symbolic aspects of the art. Attention is concentrated on major works of the century, and in some chapters individual architects and individual buildings are given the detailed analysis the author believes they deserve. The book is divided into three parts which deal with the period of formation (up to about 1918), the period of crystallization (c. 1918-1940), and the period of dissemination (from about 1940 to the present). The scope is deliberately varied from chapter to chapter as the author traces movements (like Art Nouveau), building types (like the skyscraper), style phases (like the 'International Style'), and political uses and critiques of architecture (as in the Soviet Union and Germany between the wars). The treatment of the major figures such as Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Aalto is thus set in context. The final section of the book examines the history of modern architecture since World War II, and includes the late works of the modern masters as well as the ideas and buildings of their successors. In conclusion , the author casts a critical eye on contemporary fashions, and stresses the emergence of new human needs and cultural problems in the so-called "Third World'. Modern Architecture since 1900 is a wide-ranging yet critical account of a tradition which has been shaped by individual genius as well as by social forces. William Curtis has produced a clear, sympathetic and just appreciation of the main outline, and the rich variety, of modern architecture." -- Book Jacket. | ||
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