Modern architecture since 1900 / William J.R. Curtis.

By: Curtis, William J. R [author].

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BookPublisher: London : Phaidon, 2005Edition: Third edition.Description: 736 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714833568 (paperback).Subject(s): Architecture, Modern -- 20th century

DDC classification: 724.6

Contents:

Part 1: The formative strands of modern architecture -- Part 2: The crystallization of modern architecture between the wars -- Part 3: Transformation and dissemination after 1940 -- Part 4: Continuity and change in the late twentieth century.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a comprehensive narrative which provides a setting for the detailed examination of buildings. Throughout the book the author's focus is on the individual architect, and on the qualities that give outstanding buildings their lasting value.

For the third edition, the text has been radically revised and expanded, incorporating much new material and a fresh appreciation of regional identity and variety. Seven chapters are entirely new, including expanded coverage of recent world architecture.

Described by James Ackerman of Harvard University as 'immeasurably the finest work covering this field in existence', this book presents a penetrating analysis of the modern tradition and its origins, tracing the creative interaction between old and new that has generated such an astonishing richness of architectural forms across the world and throughout the century.

Bibliography: (pages 693-719) and index.

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Library Journal Review

This third edition of the 1982 original has been greatly revisedseven additional chaptersto reflect new developments since its initial release. The volume's well-detailed text is buttressed with 650 color and black-and-white illustrations. This should be a standard volume in all architecture collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

William Curtis has won worldwide acclaim for his architectural writing. His books include Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms and Denys Lasdun , both published by Phaidon.