Modern Architecture Since 1900
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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.Library JournalThis 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.
Prefaces7Introduction111The Idea of a Modern Architecture in the Nineteenth Century212Industrialization and the City: The Skyscraper as Type and Symbol333The Search for New Forms and the Problem of Ornament534Rationalism, the Engineering Tradition and Reinforced Concrete735Arts and Crafts Ideals in Britain and the U.S.A.876Responses to Mechanization: The Deutscher Werkbund and Futurism997The Architectural System of Frank Lloyd Wright1138National Myths and Classical Transformations1319Cubism, De Stijl and New Conceptions of Space14910Le Corbusier's Quest for Ideal Form16311Walter Gropius, German Expressionism and the Bauhaus18312Architecture and Revolution in Russia20113Skyscraper and Suburb: The U.S.A. Between the Wars21714The Ideal Community: Alternatives to the Industrial City24115The International Style, the Individual Talent and the Myth of Functionalism25716The Image and Idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy27517The Continuity of Older Traditions28918Nature and the Machine: Mies Van Der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930S30519The Spread of Modern Architecture to Britain and Scandinavia32920Totalitarian Critiques of the Modern Movement35121International, National, Regional: The Diversity of a New Tradition37122Modern Architecture in the U.S.A.: Immigration and Consolidation39523Form and Meaning in the Late Works of Le Corbusier41724The Unite D'habitation at Marseilles as a Collective Housing Prototype43725Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian Developments45326Disjunctions and Continuities in the Europe of the 1950S47127The Process of Absorption: Latin America, Australia, Japan49128On Monuments and Monumentality: Louis I. Kahn51329Architecture and Anti-Architecture in Britain52930Extension and Critique in the 1960S54731Modernity, Tradition and Identity in the Developing World56732Pluralism in the 1970S58933Modern Architecture and Memory: New Perceptions of the Past61734The Universal and the Local: Landscape, Climate and Culture63535Technology, Abstraction and Ideas of Nature657Conclusion: Modernity, Tradition, Authenticity685Bibliographical Note690Notes693Index720Acknowledgements735
\ From Barnes & NobleCurtis'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.\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalThis 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.\ \ \ BooknewsNow 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.\ \
