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20th Century Architecture

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ISBN-10: 0131833189

ISBN-13: 9780131833180

Edition: 2002

Authors: Dennis P. Doordan

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Prentice Hall Art
Publication date: 10/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Confronting Modernity 1900-1940
The Modern City
Responses to the Modern City
The Garden City: Ebenezer Howard
The City Beautiful: Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett
The Industrial City: Tony Garnier
The Futurist City: Antonio Sant'Elia
Expressionist Schemes
The Emergence of the Modern Movement
Le Corbusier
CIAM
Housing
Europe
The United States: Catherine Bauer
Pieces of the City
Skyscrapers
Department Stores
Apartment Buildings
Women in Architecture
Wivi Lonn, Jane Drew, and Julia Morgan
Cultural Institutions
The International Style
Cinema Architecture
Rockefeller Center and the General Motors Futurama
The House
From the Arts and Crafts Movement to the Prairie Style
England: The Arts and Crafts Movement
The United States: Greene and Greene
The Prairie Style: Frank Lloyd Wright
European Developments
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Josef Hoffmann and the Werkstatten Movement
National Romanticism
Classicism
Modernism
Le Corbusier
Hans Scharoun, Alvar Aalto
American Developments
Richard Neutra
Frank Lloyd Wright
Industrialization and the Home
Grete Schutte-Lihotzky
R. Buckminster Fuller
The Architecture of Transportation and Industry
Railroad Stations
New York: Pennsylvania Station, Grand Central Station
Helsinki and Stuttgart Railroad Stations
Los Angeles: Union Station
Urban Mass Transit Systems
Paris, Vienna, and London
Automobile Service Stations
Factory Architecture
The United States: Albert and Julius Kahn, Robert Derrah
England and Holland: Thomas Wallis's Factories, the Van Nelle Tobacco Factory
The German Experience
Behrens and AEG
The German Werkbund
The Bauhaus
Bridges
San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge
Robert Maillart's Tavanasa Bridge
Architecture and Politics
Scandinavia and the Netherlands
National Romanticism, Classicism, Modernism: Stockholm, Helsinki, Hilversum
The "Architecture of Empire"
England: Herbert Baker, Edward Lutyens, Aston Webb
The 1931 "Exposition Coloniale Internationale"
The Soviet Union
Vladimir Tatlin and Constructivism
ASNOVA and OSA
VOPRA and Socialist Realism
Fascist Italy
Nationalism, Modernism, and Classicism: Marcello Piacentini, Giuseppe Terragni, and "E'42"
The Third Reich
Albert Speer's Berlin Plan
The United States
Classicism: Lincoln Memorial
Period Revivalism: Santa Barbara County Courthouse
Modernism: Nebraska State Capitol
The Tennessee Valley Authority
Modernist Hegemony 1940-1965
The Triumph of Modernism
The Industrialization of Design
New Directions
New York: United Nations Building
Hiroshima: Peace Center
Jakarta: The Monas
Tokyo: National Gymnasium
The Decline of Tradition
Rebuilding
Reconfiguring Capitals
Beijing
Berlin
Chandigarh, India
Brasilia
Saynatsalo, Finland
Reconceptualizing the City
Megastructures and Megalopolis
Housing
Sweden: New Empiricism
France: Le Corbusier
England: the Smithsons
The United States
Skyscrapers
Strategies of Display
The 1951 "Festival of Britain"
The 1959 "American National Exhibition," Moscow
Trends in Postwar Architecture
Domestic Architecture
Mies van der Rohe
Philip Johnson
Charles and Ray Eames
Bruce Goff
Frank Lloyd Wright
Suburban Developments
Central and South America: Oscar Niemeyer and Juan O'Gorman
Campus Architecture
The United States
Italy
Mexico
The USSR
Museum Architecture
New York: Guggenheim Museum
Paris: Pompidou Center
Verona: Castelvecchio Museum
Religious Architecture
Mexico City: Church of the Miraculous Virgin
England: Coventry Cathedral
France: Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp
"The Style for the Job"
An Era of Pluralism 1965-2000
Postmodernism, Deconstructivism, and Tradition
Renewing Modernism from Within: Housing
Ralph Erskine
Aldo van Eyck
Silence and Light: Louis Kahn
Postmodernism
Robert Venturi
Charles Moore
Ricardo Bofill
Michael Graves and the Walt Disney Company
Deconstructivism
Peter Eisenman
Rem Koolhaas
The Return of Classicism
Leon Krier
Thomas Gordon Smith
Challenge and Adaptation
Hassan Fathy
Charles Correa
Organic Form and Craft Building
The Pietilas
Peter Zumthor
Reconfiguring the City
London
The Docklands
Paris
Louvre Pyramid
Musee d'Orsay
Arab World Institute
La Villette
Berlin
Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA)
Zaha Hadid
"Green" Design
Frankfurt am Main
Saalgasse and Ostzeile Townhouses
Barcelona
The Historic Port, Montjuic Hill, and Nova Icaria
Traditional Architecture and the Reconstruction of the European City
Leon and Rob Krier
John Simpson: the Paternoster Square Debate
The New Urbanism in the United States
Seaside, Florida
Jaime Lerner: Curitiba, Brazil
The Present as History
Building Technologies
Coop Himmelblau and the Enduring Appeal of Novelty
Domestic Design
Glenn Murcutt
Stanley Tigerman
Frank Gehry
R. Scott Johnson
Office Buildings
Richard Rogers: Lloyd's of London
Quinlan Terry: Richmond Riverside
Ralph Erskine: The Ark
Skyscrapers
Norman Foster: Commerzbank
Kenneth Yeang: Menara Mesiniaga
Cesar Pelli: Petronas Towers
Kohn, Pederson, Fox: Shanghai World Financial Center
Antonio Ismael: Citra Niaga Center
Government Buildings
Geoffrey Bawa: Sri Jayawardenepura
Kenzo Tange: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Headquarters
Norman Foster: Reichstag
Railroad Stations
Nicholas Grimshaw: Channel Tunnel Railway Terminal
Santiago Calatrava: Lyon-Satolas TGV Railway Station
Cultural Institutions
Renzo Piano: Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center, Noumea, New Caledonia
Frank Gehry: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Thomas Beeby: Harold Washington Library, Chicago
Architecture and Memory
Fumihiko Maki: Kaze-No-Oka Crematorium
Maya Lin: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC
Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum, Berlin
Timeline
Bibliography
Credits
Index