Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1

Name: Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 1
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ISBN: 9780262562010

ISBN-10: 0262562014

ISBN-13: 9780262562010

Edition: 1990

Authors: Edward R. Ford

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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. The Details of Modern Architecture, the first comprehensive analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of architecture, provides not one answer but many. The more than 500 illustrations are a major contribution in their own right. Providing a valuable collective resource, they present the details of notable architectural works drawn in similar styles and formats, allowing comparisons between works of different scales, periods, and styles. Covering the…

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List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/21/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 451
Size: 11.00" wide x 11.06" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 3.432



Preface



Introduction



H. H. Richardson, Ralph Adams Cram, and the Gothic Revival



McKim, Mead & White and Classical Rationalism



Edwin Lutyens and the Language of Classicism



The Arts and Crafts Movement: The Greene Brothers and Their English Contemporaries



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



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index