Modern architecture /

Main Author: Colquhoun, Alan, 1921-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series:Oxford history of art
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Art Nouveau 1890-1910
  • Chapter 2. Organicism versus Classicism: Chicago 1890-1910
  • Chapter 3. Culture and industry: Germany 1907-14
  • Chapter 4. The Urn and the Chamberpot: Adolf Loos 1900-30
  • Chapter 5. Expressionism and Futurism
  • Chapter 6. The Avant-gardes in Holland and Russia
  • Chapter 7. Return to order: Le Corbusier and modern architecture in France 1920-35
  • Chapter 8. Weimar Germany: the dialectic of the modern 1920-33
  • Chapter 9. From Rationalism to Revisionism: architecture in Italy 1920-65
  • Chapter 10. Neoclassicism, Organicism, and the welfare state: Architecture in Scandinavia 1910-65
  • Chapter 11. From Le Corbusier to megastructures: urban visions 1930-65
  • Chapter 12. Pax Americana: architecture in America 1945-65
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Timeline
  • List of illustrations
  • Index