For this revised and updated third edition, an appreciation of regional identity and variety has been incorporated, and also a section on recent architecture. While technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are fully treated, the final emphasis is on individuals and on the qualities that give buildings their lasting value. This work on 20th-century architecture combines a clear general outline with analysis and interpretation of particular buildings. Part 4 Changing ideals in the late 20th century: modern architecture and the historical sense architectural types and urban fragments - new directions in the 1970s.modernity and tradition in the Third World.architecture and anti-architecture in Britain.the process of absorption - Latin America, Australia, Japan.disjunctions and continuities in the Europe of the 1950s.Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian developments.the Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles as a collective housing prototype.form and meaning in the late works of Le Corbusier.Part 3 Transformation and dissemination after 1940: modern architecture in the USA - immigration and consolidation universal models, national inflections and regional accents.the spread of modern architecture to Britain and Finland.totalitarian critiques of the Modern movement.nature and the machine - Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s.the image and idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy.the international style, the individual talent, and the myth of functionalism.the ideal community - alternatives to the industrial city.skyscraper and suburb - the USA between the wars.Walter Gropius, German expressionism, and the Bauhaus.Part 2 The crystallization of Modern architecture between the wars: Le Corbusier's quest for ideal form national romanticism and classical transformations.the architectural system of Frank Lloyd Wright.responses to mechanization - the Deutscher Werkbund and futurism.arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the USA.rationalism, the engineering tradition, and reinforced concrete.the search for new forms and the problem of ornament.industrialization and the city - the skyscraper as type and symbol.Part 1 The formative strands of Modern architecture: the idea of a Modern architecture in the 19th century.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
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