The Story of Modern Architecture

The Story of Modern Architecture
Author: Paolo Favole
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture, Modern
ISBN: 9783791346410

History of modern architecture from 1900 through 1945.

The Look of Architecture

The Look of Architecture
Author: Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780195156331

A bestselling author offers a highly entertaining and insightful look at the meaning and importance of style to architecture. This is a book brimming with sharp observations as it shows the connection between architecture, interior decoration, and fashion. 10 line illustrations.

Modern Architecture

Modern Architecture
Author: Alan Colquhoun
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2002-04-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0191592641

This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the often contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition.

House Styles in America

House Styles in America
Author: James C. Massey
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture, American
ISBN: 9780140281125

This beautifully illustrated tour of America's houses begins in 1640 with the early roots of American style -- a combination of European skill and attitude combined with American know-how. This architectural journey continues on through the 18th and 19th centuries, through the Greek Revival, the Americanization of the Gothic Revival, and the early Colonial Revival. The houses of the 20th century are the main attraction as House Styles in America delves into the major movements in the Romantic Revivals of the 1920s and 1930s: English, French, and Spanish. Replete with 200 color photographs, this architectural journey is an essential and beautiful guide for realtors, tourists, and students of architecture.

Modern Architecture

Modern Architecture
Author: Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1986
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Photographs, plans, diagrams, and historical and critical commentaries review the architectural developments, styles, and monuments of India and Ceylon, Indochina and Indonesia, the Himalayan region, Central Asia, China, Korea, and Japan.