The future of architecture, since 1889 /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Phaidon,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Architecture's expanded field
- Shed to rails: the dominion of steel
- The search for modern form
- Domestic innovation and tectonic expression
- American rediscovered, tall and wide
- The challenge of the metropolis
- New production, new aesthetic
- In search of a language: from classicism to Cubism
- The Great War and its side effects
- Expressionism in Weimar Germany and the Netherlands
- Return to order in Paris
- Dada, De Stijl, and Mies: from subversiveness to elementarism
- Architectural education in turmoil
- Architecture and revolution in Russia
- The architecture of social reform
- Internationalization, its networks and spectacles
- Futurism and rationalism in Fascist Italy
- The spectrum of classicisms and traditionalisms
- North American modernities
- Functionalism and machine aesthetics
- Modern languages conquer the world
- COlonial experiences and new nationalism
- Architecture of a total war
- Tabula rasa to horror vacui: reconstruction and renaissance
- The fatal crisis of the modern movement and the alternatives
- Le Corbusier reinvented and reinterpreted
- The shape of American hegemony
- Repression and diffusion of modernism
- Toward new utopias
- Between elitism and populism: alternative architecture
- After 1968: architecture for the city
- The postmodern season
- From regionalism to critical internationalism
- The neo-futurist optimism of high tech
- Architecture's outer boundaries
- Vanishing points.