Master Builders: Le Corbusier Vander Rohe F Lloyd WrightThe story of modern architecture is told here through the lives and works of three men who changed the face of the cities we live in. Le Corbusier gave to modern design a sure and brilliant sense of form; Mies brought an almost Gothic discipline of structure; and Wright heralded a new and dramatic concept of space and freedom. Through this triple focus, Peter Blake provides a perspective on the entire range of twentieth-century architecture. |
Contents
LE CORBUSIER and the Mastery of Form | xix |
MIES VAN DER ROME and the Mastery of Structure | 161 |
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and the Mastery of Space | 281 |
PROSPECT | 409 |
Index | 419 |
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