(P/B) THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE SINCE 1889

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Truly far-ranging - both conceptually and geographically - The Future of Architecture Since 1889 is a rich, compelling history that will shape future thinking about this period for years to come. Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today's most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an authoritative and compelling account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from industrialization through computerization, and linking architecture to developments in art, technology, urbanism and critical theory. Encompassing both well-known masters and previously neglected but significant architects, this book also reflects Cohen's deep knowledge architecture across the globe, and in places such Eastern Europe and colonial Africa and South America that have rarely been included in histories of this period.
This comprehensive history is richly illustrated not only with buildings, projects and plans, but also with publications, portraits, paintings, diagrams, film stills, and exhibitions, showing the immense diversity of architectural thought and production throughout the twentieth century. (From the publisher)

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Introduction - Architecture's expanded field
Sheds to rails: the dominion of steel
The search for modern form
Domestic innovation and tectonic expression
American rediscovered, tall and wide
The challenge of the metropolis
New production, new aesthetic
In search of a language: from classicism to Cubism
The Great War and its side effects
Expressionism in Weimar Germany and the Netherlands
Return to order in Paris
Dada, De Stijl, and Mies: from subversiveness to elementarism
Architectural education in turmoil
Architecture and revolution in Russia
The architecture of social reform
Internationalization, its networks and spectacles
Futurism and Rationalism in Fascist Italy
The spectrum of classicisms and traditionalisms
North American modernities
Functionalism and machine aesthetics
Modern languages conquer the world
Colonial experiences and new nationalisms
Architecture of a total war
Tabula rasa to horror vacui: reconstruction and renaissance
The fatal crisis of the Modern Movement and the alternatives
Le Corbusier reinvented and reinterpreted
The shape of American hegemony
Repression and diffusion of modernism
Toward new utopias
Between elitism and populism: alternative architecture
After 1968: architecture for the city
The postmodern season
From regionalism to critical internationalism
Architecture's outer boundaries
Vanishing points
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments and credits