Theory and Design in the First Machine Age

Name: Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
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ISBN: 9780262520584

ISBN-10: 0262520583

ISBN-13: 9780262520584

Edition: 2nd 1980

Authors: Reyner Banham

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First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced a generation of students and critics interested in the formation of attitudes, themes, and forms which were characteristic of artists and architects working primarily in Europe between 1900 and 1930 under the compulsion of new technological developments in the first machine age.

Book details

List price: $39.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/25/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction



Predisposing Causes: Academic and Rationalist Writers, 1900-1914


The Academic tradition and the concept of elementary composition


Choisy: Rationalism and technique


The Academic succession: Garnier and Perret


England: Lethaby and Scott


Germany: Industry and the Werkbund


The Factory aesthetic


Adolf Loos and the problem of ornament



Italy: Futurist Manifestos and Projects, 1909-1914


Futurism: the Foundation Manifesto


Futurism: theory and development


Sant'Elia and Futurist architecture



Holland: The Legacy of Berlage: De Stijl, 1917-1925


Holland: Berlage and attitudes to Wright


De Stijl: the Dutch phase


Expressionism: Amsterdam and Berlin


De Stijl: the international phase



Paris: The World of Art and Le Corbusier


Architecture and the Cubist tradition


Progressive building in Paris: 1918-1928


Vers une Architecture


Le Corbusier: town planning and aesthetics



Germany: Berlin, the Bauhaus, the Victory of the New Style


The Berlin School


The Bauhaus


Germany: the encyclopaedics


Conclusion: Functionalism and technology


Index