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this is a book that is enjoyed by those who read and view things in an aritstic way.. also for others:P
Curtis's expansive and exhaustive look at the greatest architecture of the last century is widely considered a seminal architecture work. Effectively placing the century's major movements and most important masters in historical context, Curtis allows us to see not only where we've been but where we're going.
This third edition of the 1982 original has been greatly revisedseven additional chaptersto reflect new developments since its initial release. The volume's well-detailed text is buttressed with 650 color and black-and-white illustrations. This should be a standard volume in all architecture collections.
More Reviews and RecommendationsCurtis's expansive and exhaustive look at the greatest architecture of the last century is widely considered a seminal architecture work. Effectively placing the century's major movements and most important masters in historical context, Curtis allows us to see not only where we've been but where we're going.
This third edition of the 1982 original has been greatly revisedseven additional chaptersto reflect new developments since its initial release. The volume's well-detailed text is buttressed with 650 color and black-and-white illustrations. This should be a standard volume in all architecture collections.
Now established as the standard work on 20th-century architecture, this text combines a general outline of the growth of a modern tradition with analysis and interpretation of individual buildings. The author blends practical, aesthetic, and social dimensions while emphasizing the formal and symbolic aspects of the art. Three of seven new chapters are included at the end of a section on recent world developments, placing contemporary architecture in a historical and cultural perspective. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Loading...| Prefaces | 7 | |
| Introduction | 11 | |
| 1 | The Idea of a Modern Architecture in the Nineteenth Century | 21 |
| 2 | Industrialization and the City: The Skyscraper as Type and Symbol | 33 |
| 3 | The Search for New Forms and the Problem of Ornament | 53 |
| 4 | Rationalism, the Engineering Tradition and Reinforced Concrete | 73 |
| 5 | Arts and Crafts Ideals in Britain and the U.S.A. | 87 |
| 6 | Responses to Mechanization: The Deutscher Werkbund and Futurism | 99 |
| 7 | The Architectural System of Frank Lloyd Wright | 113 |
| 8 | National Myths and Classical Transformations | 131 |
| 9 | Cubism, De Stijl and New Conceptions of Space | 149 |
| 10 | Le Corbusier's Quest for Ideal Form | 163 |
| 11 | Walter Gropius, German Expressionism and the Bauhaus | 183 |
| 12 | Architecture and Revolution in Russia | 201 |
| 13 | Skyscraper and Suburb: The U.S.A. Between the Wars | 217 |
| 14 | The Ideal Community: Alternatives to the Industrial City | 241 |
| 15 | The International Style, the Individual Talent and the Myth of Functionalism | 257 |
| 16 | The Image and Idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy | 275 |
| 17 | The Continuity of Older Traditions | 289 |
| 18 | Nature and the Machine: Mies Van Der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930S | 305 |
| 19 | The Spread of Modern Architecture to Britain and Scandinavia | 329 |
| 20 | Totalitarian Critiques of the Modern Movement | 351 |
| 21 | International, National, Regional: The Diversity of a New Tradition | 371 |
| 22 | Modern Architecture in the U.S.A.: Immigration and Consolidation | 395 |
| 23 | Form and Meaning in the Late Works of Le Corbusier | 417 |
| 24 | The Unite D'habitation at Marseilles as a Collective Housing Prototype | 437 |
| 25 | Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian Developments | 453 |
| 26 | Disjunctions and Continuities in the Europe of the 1950S | 471 |
| 27 | The Process of Absorption: Latin America, Australia, Japan | 491 |
| 28 | On Monuments and Monumentality: Louis I. Kahn | 513 |
| 29 | Architecture and Anti-Architecture in Britain | 529 |
| 30 | Extension and Critique in the 1960S | 547 |
| 31 | Modernity, Tradition and Identity in the Developing World | 567 |
| 32 | Pluralism in the 1970S | 589 |
| 33 | Modern Architecture and Memory: New Perceptions of the Past | 617 |
| 34 | The Universal and the Local: Landscape, Climate and Culture | 635 |
| 35 | Technology, Abstraction and Ideas of Nature | 657 |
| Conclusion: Modernity, Tradition, Authenticity | 685 | |
| Bibliographical Note | 690 | |
| Notes | 693 | |
| Index | 720 | |
| Acknowledgements | 735 |
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