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Modernist Architecture

Modernism is the architecture that decided history was over. From roughly 1910 to roughly 1970, an international generation of architects argued that the...

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Modernism is the architecture that decided history was over. From roughly 1910 to roughly 1970, an international generation of architects argued that the new materials of industry — steel, glass, reinforced concrete — required a new architectural language without historical reference, applied ornament, or regional inflection. They were partly right and partly catastrophically wrong, and the buildings they made now... Key sections include: Modern ism.; Opening The break.; Chapter I The Bauhaus.; Chapter II Mies van der Rohe.; Chapter III Mies's principles.; Chapter IV Le Corbusier.; Chapter V Le Corbusier's writing.; Chapter VI Frank Lloyd Wright.; Chapter VII Organic architecture.; Chapter VIII The 1932 catalogue..

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  1. 01Modern ism.
  2. 02Opening The break.
  3. 03Chapter I The Bauhaus.
  4. 04Chapter II Mies van der Rohe.
  5. 05Chapter III Mies's principles.
  6. 06Chapter IV Le Corbusier.
  7. 07Chapter V Le Corbusier's writing.
  8. 08Chapter VI Frank Lloyd Wright.
  9. 09Chapter VII Organic architecture.
  10. 10Chapter VIII The 1932 catalogue.
  11. 11Chapter IX Walter Gropius.
  12. 12Chapter X Alvar Aalto.
  13. 13Chapter XI Brasília.
  14. 14Chapter XII The American postwar.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Case Study Houses.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The postwar diffusion.
  17. 17Chapter XV The postmodern reaction.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Late modernism, neo-modernism.
  19. 19Chapter XVII Asian modernism.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII The counter-traditions.
  21. 21Chapter XIX The failures.
  22. 22Chapter XX What survives.
  23. 23Chapter XXI The pilgrimage.
  24. 24Chapter XXII The library.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV The case for and against.
  27. 27Chapter XXV Where it goes.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI The argument's end.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII Looking at modernism.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII Where modernism still lives.
  31. 31The end of the deck.
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