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Prefaces | |
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Introduction | |
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The idea of a modern architecture in the nineteenth century | |
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Industrialization and the city: The skyscraper as type and symbol | |
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The search for new forms and the problems of ornament | |
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Rationalism, the engineering tradition and reinforced concrete | |
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Arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the U.S.A. | |
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Responses to mechanization: the Deutscher Werkbund and futurism | |
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The architectural system of Frank Lloyd Wright | |
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National myths and classical transformations | |
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Cubism, de stijl and new conceptions of space | |
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Le Corbusier's quest for ideal form | |
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Walter Gropius, German expressionism and the Bauhaus | |
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Architecture and revolution in Russia | |
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Skyscraper and suburb: The U.S.A. between the wars | |
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The ideal community: Alternatives to the industrial city | |
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The international style, the individual talent and the myth of functionalism | |
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The image and idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy | |
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The continuity of older traditions | |
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Nature and the machine: Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s | |
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The spread of modern architecture to Britain and Scandinavia | |
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Totalitarian critiques of the modern movement | |
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International, national, regional: The diversity of a new tradition | |
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Modern architecture in the U.S.A.: Immigration and consolidation | |
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Form and meaning in the late works of Le Corbusier | |
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The unite d'habitation at Marseilles as a collective housing prototype | |
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Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian developments | |
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Disjunctions and continuities in the Europe of the 1950s | |
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The process of absorption: Latin America, Australia, Japan | |
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On monuments and monumentality: Louis I. Kahn | |
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Architecture and anti-architecture in Britain | |
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Extension and critique in the 1960s | |
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Modernity, tradition and identity in the developing world | |
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Pluralism in the 1970s | |
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Modern architecture and memory: New perceptions of the past | |
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The universal and the local: Landscape, climate and culture | |
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Technology, abstraction and ideas of nature | |
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Conclusion: Modernity, tradition, authenticity | |
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Bibliographical note | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |
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Acknowledgements | |