Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesThis book examines a period which is far more than a prelude to the age of steel and concrete. The first half-century culminated in the bold iron and glass of the Crystal Palace. There follows the creation of the modern styles of the era based on traditions of the past, and finally, in the 20th century, Art Nouveau and the modern architects in their generations - Perret, Wright, Gropius, Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and others in many parts of the world. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Introduction | 13 |
18001850 | 23 |
The Doctrine of J N L Durand and its Application in Northern Europe | 47 |
France and the Rest of the Continent | 75 |
Great Britain | 97 |
The New World | 121 |
The Picturesque and the Gothic Revival | 143 |
The Development of the Detached House in England and America from 1800 to 1900 | 353 |
Victor Horta | 383 |
Modern Architects of the First Generation | 419 |
Frank Lloyd Wright and his California Contemporaries | 433 |
Peter Behrens and Other German Architects | 455 |
The First Generation in Austria Holland and Scandinavia | 469 |
Later Work of the Leaders of the Second Generation | 513 |
Architecture Called Traditional in the Twentieth Century | 531 |
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18501900 | 191 |
Second Empire and Cognate Modes Elsewhere | 219 |
High Victorian Gothic in England | 247 |
Later NeoGothic Outside England | 271 |
Norman Shaw and his Contemporaries | 291 |
H H Richardson and McKim Mead White | 311 |
The Rise of Commercial Architecture in England and America | 327 |
Architecture at the Mid Century | 555 |
Epilogue | 577 |
Notes | 593 |
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