Modern architecture : a critical history /

Title:

Modern architecture : a critical history /

Author:

Frampton, Kenneth.

Published:

London ; New York : 2007.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Wentworth Institute of Technology, MassArt, Emerson College

Contents:

Pt. I. Cultural developments and predisposing techniques 1750-1939 -- 1. Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical architecture 1750-1900 -- 2. Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800-1909 -- 3. Technical transformations: structural engineering 1775-1939 -- Pt. II. A critical history 1836-1967 -- 1. News from Nowhere: England 1836-1924 -- 2. Adler and Sullivan: the Auditorium and the high rise 1886-95 -- 3. Frank Lloyd Wright and the myth of the Prairie 1890-1916 -- 4. Structural Rationalism and the influence of Viollet-le-Duc: Gaudi, Horta, Guimard and Berlage 1880-1910 -- 5. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School 1896-1916 -- 6. The Sacred Spring: Wagner, Olbrich and Hoffmann 1886-1912 -- 7. Antonio Sant'Elia and Futurist architecture 1909-14 -- 8. Adolf Loos and the crisis of culture 1896-1931 -- 9. Henry van de Velde and the abstraction of empathy 1895-1914 -- 10. Tony Garnier and the Industrial City 1899-1918 -- 11. Auguste Perret: the evolution of Classical Rationalism 1899-1925 -- 12. The Deutsche Werkbund 1898-1927 -- 13. The Glass Chain: European architectural Expressionism 1910-25 -- 14. The Bauhaus: the evolution of an idea 1919-32 -- 15. The New Objectivity: Germany, Holland and Switzerland 1923-33 -- 16. De Stijl: the evolution and dissolution of Neo-Plasticism 1917-31 -- 17. Le Corbusier and the Esprit Nouveau 1907-31 -- 18. Mies van der Rohe and the significance of fact 1921-33 -- 19. The New Collectivity: art and architecture in the Soviet Union 1918-32 -- 20. Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse 1928-46 -- 21. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Disappearing City 1929-63 -- 22. Alvar Aalto and the Nordic tradition: National Romanticism and the Doricist sensibility 1895-1957 -- 23. Giuseppe Terragni and the architecture of Italian Rationalism 1926-43 -- 24. Architecture and the State: ideology and representation 1914-43 --

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Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
NA500 .F75 2007 – Available

MassArt Main
NA500 .F75 2007 – Available

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