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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 Problem 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 | |