ARCHITECTURE IN THE 20th CENTURY

Παρουσίαση

New aesthetic potential was released at the end of the eighteenth century in the wake of the Enlightenment. The natural sciences were declared a recognized means of explaining the world, and geometric axioms competed with anatomic rules of proportion. The definition of units of measurement based on natural constants was one of the products of the French Revolution; the metre became a valid unit of measurement when the standard metre, one forty-millionth of the earth's circumference, was stored in the Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris on 22 June 1 799. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

1773-1916: Preparing for Modernism in the Industrial Age
Prologue
Of Iron Giants and Glass Virgins
The Chicago School
1884-1925: Setting Off to Unknown Realms
L'Entree du Siecle
In the Far Landscape
Circle and Square
The Modern Factory
Creative in Concrete
1912-1941: The Turbulence and Upsurge of Modernism
The Return of Art
Volumetric Experiments
Housing Estates
Machines for Living In
The International Style
The New Deal
1944-1971: An Art Form in its Prime
Case Studies
Less is More
Stonebound
The Flying Roof
Bubbles
Concrete Containers
1947-2004: Criticizing the Establishment
Learning from Las Vegas
The Whites
Work on Modernism
The Rational South
Open Structures
The Post-Modern City
Bellevue
Concrete Poems
The New Pleasure in Materials
The Curvature of Space
Biographies
Index