Main entry:

Curtis, William J. R.

Title & Author:

Modern architecture since 1900 / William J.R. Curtis.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication:

Oxford : Phaidon, ©1996.

Description:

736 pages : chiefly illustrations

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 690-693) and index.
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.

Summary:

This book brings together technical, economic, social and intellectual developments to provide a setting for a detailed examination of modern architecture since 1900.

ISBN:

0714833568
9780714833569
0714835242
9780714835242

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 130981
Call No.: NA680 .C87 1996
Status: Available