Main entry:

Tafuri, Manfredo.

Title & Author:

Modern architecture / Manfredo Tafuri and Francesco Dal Co ; translated from the Italian by Robert Erich Wolf.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams, 1979.

Description:

448 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Series:

History Of World Architecture.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-421) and index.
Preface / by Pier Luigi Nervi -- Introduction -- The rise of urbanism in nineteenth-century America -- The birth of modern town planning : I -- The birth of modern town planning : II -- Architecture and cities in the United States : 1870-1910 -- The architecture of northern Romanticism and Catalan modernism -- The Werkbund : architecture faces the metropolis -- Modern classicism : architecture without avant-garde -- Architecture and the Avant-Garde from Cubism to the Bauhaus : 1906-1923 -- The role of the masters -- The dialectic of the European modern movement : expressionism versus rigorism -- The attempts at urban reform in Europe between the wars -- The Avant-Garde, urbanism, and planning in Soviet Russia -- Architecture and city in the United States : the Progressive Era and the New Deal, 1910-1940 -- Architecture in Europe in the twenties and thirties -- Nationalistic and totalitarian architecture in Italy and Germany -- Urbanistic administration and building policies after World War II -- The activity of the masters after World War II -- Between nationalism and populism : the Bay Region style, Scandinavian Neo-Empiricism, Italian Neo-Realism, the work of Alvar Aalto -- The international panorama in the fifties and sixties -- The international concept of utopia -- The experience of the seventies.
Translation of Architettura contemporanea. Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

Modern architecture is a broad philosophical inquiry into the political, social, and technological forces of the last 100 years as embodied in the buildings around us. This far-ranging volume in Abrams "History of World Architecture" series surveys the residences, exhibitions, communities, and industrial and office buildings in the United States and Europe that have endowed twentieth-century architecture with its power to restructure our visual perceptions.

ISBN:

0810910063
9780810910065

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 19th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
City planning.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture moderne 20e siècle.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Bouwkunst.

Added entries:

Dal Co, Francesco, 1945- author.
Nervi, Pier Luigi, writer of preface.
Wolf, Robert Erich, translator.
History of world architecture (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 179832
Call No.: 3013 NA680.T2513; ID:98-B371
Status: Available