H.H. Richardson, Ralph Adams Cram, and the Gothic revival -- McKim, Mead & White and classical rationalism -- Edwin Lutyens and the language of classicism -- Arts and crafts movement : the Greene brothers and their English counterparts -- Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park -- Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos : Viennese rationalism -- Le Corbusier : the classic villas -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the steel frame -- Residential construction in America : Rudolf Schindler, Walter Gropius, and Marcel Breuer -- Frank Lloyd Wright : the Usonian period.
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How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that every student of architecture must confront.