Manfredo Tafuri, Francesco Dal Co ; translated from the Italian by Robert Erich Wolf.
New York :
Electa/Rizzoli,
1986.
2 volumes (427 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations (some color) ;
24 cm.
History of world architecture
Translation of: Architettura contemporanea.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-403) and index.
VOLUME 1 -- The rise urbanism in nineteenth century America -- The birth of modern town planning: I -- The birth of modern town planning: II -- Architecture and cities in the United States: 1870-1910 -- The architecture of northern romanticism and Catalan modernism -- The Werkbund: architecture faces the metropolis -- Modern classicism: architecture without avant garde -- Architecture and the avant garde from Cubism to the Bauhaus: 1906-1923 -- The role of the masters -- The dialectic of the European modern movement: expressionism versus rigorism -- The attempts at urban reform in Europe between the wars -- The avant garde, urbanism and planning in Soviet Russia -- Architecture and city in the United States: the Progressive era and the New Deal, 1910-1940 -- VOLUME 2 -- Architecture in Europe in the Twenties and Thirties -- Natiionalistic and totalitarian architecture in Italy and Germany -- Urbanistic administration and building policies after World War II -- Between nationalism and populism: the Bay Region style, Scandinavian neo-empiricism, Italian neo-realism, the work of Alvar Aalto -- The international panorama in the Fifties and Sixties -- The international concept of utopia -- The experience of the Seventies.
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Futurism, Geneva (Switzerland), Genoa (Italy), Walter Gropius, The Hague, Helsinki (Finland), Hilversum (Holland), international style, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Leningrad (USSR), London (England), Adolf Loos, Los Angeles (California), Lyons (France), Madison (Wisconsin), Madrid (Spain), Erich Mendesohn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Milan (Italy), Moscow (USSR), neo-classicism, neo-expressionism, neo-empiricism, neo-gothic, neo-plasticism, neo-Romanesque, neo-Romantic, Neue Sachlichkeit (New objectivity), New Haven (Connecticut), New York City (New York), Oak Park (Illinois), Paris (France), Pasadena (California), Auguste Perret, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Hans Poelzig, Prague (Czechoslovakia), Prairie School, Racine (Wisconsin), Henry Hobson Richardson, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Rome (Italy), Rotterdam (Holland), Eliel Saarinen, St. Louis (Missouri), San Francisco (California), Stockholm (Sweden), Stuttgart (Germany), Bruno Taut, Heinrich Tessenow, Tokyo (Japan), Turin (Italy), Venice (Italy), Martin Wagner, Otto Wagner, Weimar Repulbic, Frank Lloyd Wright, Zurich (Switzerland).
Modern Architecture/1 and 2 document the incredible diversity and change that have taken place in architectural and urban design during the past one hundred years. The informative text offers an in-depth analysis of societal forces shaping the landscape of modern architecture throughout Europe and the United States. Volume 1 covers issues ranging from urbanism and town planning at the turn of the century through the work of design groups such as the Deutsche Werkbund and individuals such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright to nationalistic and totalitarian architecture in Italy and Germany prior to and during the Second World War. Volume 2 traces concepts of urbanism and building theories after World War II through the 1970s, following the work of architects such as Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto as well as the younger generation of practitioners of international reputation and influence. Also includes information on Amsterdam (Holland), Barcelona (Spain), Basel (Switzerland), Peter Behrens, Berlin (Germany), Boston (Massachusetts), Brussels (Belgium), Cambridge (Massachusetts), Celle (Germany), Chandigarh (India), Chicago (Illinois), Como (Italy), Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), constructivism, Detroit (Michigan), Dusseldorf (Germany), Florence (Italy), Frankfurt (Germany).