Tower and Office From Modernist Theory to Contemporary Practice

Name: Tower and Office From Modernist Theory to Contemporary Practice
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ISBN: 9780262511902

ISBN-10: 0262511908

ISBN-13: 9780262511902

Edition: 2005

Authors: Juan Herreros, Inaki Abalos

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In "Tower and Office, Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war was the source of powerful new structural models and construction methods. The authors examine the ways these technologies have been inflected over the last half century by more subjective and integrated processes of spatial organization.In the first part of the book, Abalos and Herreros focus on the work of Le Corbusier,…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



High-Rise Construction and the Modern Movement



The Theoretical Contributions of Le Corbusier



Technological Evolution of Contemporary High-Rise Structures



Structural Development



Evolution of Glass Curtain Wall Construction



The Mechanically Regulated Environment and Its Structural Implications



Typological and Urban Evolution of the Contemporary High-Rise Building



The Evolution of Space Planning in the Workplace



Evolution of Topological Planning in the High-Rise Building: The Mixed-Use Skyscraper


Epilogue


Notes


Illustration Credits


Index of Names