The Future of Architecture Since 1889

Argumento de The Future of Architecture Since 1889

An authoritative text surveying arcchitects, movements and events. Exhaustively illustrated with photographs, drawings. publications and more.0Indice:
01 Sheds to rails: the dominion of steel
02 The search for modern form
03 Domestic innovation and tectonic expresssion
04 America resdiscoverd, tall and wide
05 The challenge of the metropolis
06 New production, new aesthetic
07 In searche of a language: from classicism to Cubism
08 The Great War and its side effects
09 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
13Architecture and revolution in Russia
14 The architecture of social reform
15 Internationalization, its networks an spectacles
16 Futurism ans Rationalism in Fascist italy
17 The Spectrum os classicisms and traditionalisms
18 North American modernities
19 Functionalism and machine aesthetics
20 Modern Languages conquer the world
21 Colonial experiences and the new nationalisms
22 Architecture of a total war
23 Tabula rasa horror vacui: Reconstrution and renacissance
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 Architecure´s outer boundaries
35 Vanishing Points