Introduction
PART I – Cultural Developments and Predisposing Techniques 1750 – 1939
Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical Architecture 1750 – 1900
Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800 – 1909
Technical transformations: structural engineering 1775 – 1939
PART II – A Critical History 1836 – 1967
News from Nowhere: England 1836 – 1924
Adler and Sullivan: the Auditorium and the high rise 1886 – 95
Frank Lloyd Wright and the myth of the Prairie 1890 – 1916
Structural Rationalism and the influence of Viollet-le-Duc; Gaudí, Horta, Guimard and Berlage 1880-1910
Charles Rennie Mackinstosh and the Glasgow School 1896 – 1916
The Sacred Spring: Wagner, Olbrich and Hoffman 1886 – 1912
Antonio Sant‘Elia and Futurist Architecture 1909 – 14
Adolf Loos and the crisis of culture 1896 – 1931
Henry van de Velde and the abstraction of empathy 1895 – 1914
Tony Garnier and the Industrial City 1899 – 1918
Auguste Perret: the evolution of Classical Rationalism 1899 – 1925
The Deutsche Werkbund 1898 – 1927
The Glass Chain: European architectural Expressionism 1910 – 25
The Bauhaus: the evolution of an idea 1919 – 32
The New Objectivity: Germany, Holland and Switzerland 1923 – 33
De Stijl: the evolution and dissolution of Neo-Plasticism 1917 – 31
Le Corbusier and the Esprit Nouveau 1907 – 31
Mies van der Rohe and the significance of fact 1921 – 33
The New Collectivity: art and architecture in the Soviet Union 1918 - 32
Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse 1928 – 46
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Disappearing City 1929 – 63
Alvar Aalto and the Nordic tradition: National Romanticism and the Doricist sensibility 1895 – 1957
Giuseppe Terragni and the architecture of Italian rationalism 1926 – 43
Architecture and the State: ideology and representation 1914 – 43
Le Corbusier and the monumentalization of the vernacular 1930 - 60
Mies van der Rohe and the monumentalization of technique 1933 – 67
The Eclipse of the New Deal: Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn 1934 – 64
PART III – Critical assessment and extension into the present 1925 - 91
The International Style: theme and variations 1925 – 65
New Brutalism and the architecture of the Welfare State: England 1949 – 59
The vicissitudes of ideology: CIAM and Team X, critique and counter-critique 1928 – 68
Place, Production and Scenography: international theory and practice since 1962
Critical Regionalism: modern architecture and cultural identity
World architecture and reflective practice
NEW: Architecture in the Age of Globalization: topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality, habitat and civic form 1975 - 2007
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Acknowledgments
Index
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