The future of architecture, since 1889

1. Sheds to rails: the dominion of steel


2. The search for modern form


3. Domestic innovation and tectonic expression


4. America rediscovered, tall and wide


5. The challenge of the metropolis


6. New production, new aesthetic


7. In search of a language: from classicism to Cubism


8. The Great War and its side effects


9. Expressionism in Weimar Germany and the Netherlands


10. Return to order in Paris


11. Dada, De Stijl, and Mies: from subversiveness to elementarism


12. Architectural education in turmoil


13. Architecture and revolution in Russia


14. The architecture of social reform


15. Internationalization, its networks and spectacles


16. Futurism and Rationalism in Fascist Italy


17. The spectrum of classicisms and traditionalisms


18. North American modernities


19. Functionalism and machine aesthetics


20. Modern languages conquer the world


21. Colonial experiences and new nationalisms


22. Architecture of a total war


23. 
    Tabula rasa to horror vacui: reconstruction and renaissance


24. The fatal crisis of the Modern Movement, and the alternatives


25. Le Corbusier reinvented and reinterpreted


26. The shape of American hegemony


27. Repression and diffusion of modernism


28. Toward new utopias


29. Between elitism and populism: alternative architecture


30. After 1968: architecture for the city


31. The postmodern season


32. From regionalism to critical internationalism


33. The neo-Futurist optimism of high-tech


34. Architecture's outer boundaries


35. Vanishing points

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Louis Cohen
• Assisted by: Nicholas Elliott (Translation), Elliott Nicholas (Translation)
• Publisher: Phaidon
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780714845982
• ISBN: 978-0-7148-4598-2
• No. of pages: 527
• Dimensions: 220 mm x 280 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 1930 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Architecture