At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture

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The most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of twentieth-century architecture ever published, this volume presents a global perspective on some of the most significant works, ideas, and directions over the past one hundred years. With more than three hundred illustrations covering the major landmarks and architects of the century, it will appeal to a wide audience. Exploring cutting-edge ideas, the book also offers the sophisticated professional reader fresh viewpoints. The broad focus of the book is the complex...
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Overview

The most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of twentieth-century architecture ever published, this volume presents a global perspective on some of the most significant works, ideas, and directions over the past one hundred years. With more than three hundred illustrations covering the major landmarks and architects of the century, it will appeal to a wide audience. Exploring cutting-edge ideas, the book also offers the sophisticated professional reader fresh viewpoints. The broad focus of the book is the complex relationship between innovation and tradition and the profound impact of technology on architecture and urbanism throughout the twentieth century. It explores the house and the city; the grand international movements and regional vernacular styles; the forces that built this century and thoughts about where the next one will take us.
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This thick catalog presents seven thematic essays by leading scholars and commentators on 20th-century architecture, covering such topics as Latin America, Japan, urbanism, regionalism, and "The Exhibitionist House." The essays vary in usefulness and value, from Beatriz Colomina's pungent commentaries on modern housing prototypes presented at international exhibitions to Anthony Vidler's highly abstract treatment of the space-time continuum. The authors have taken pains to include as much regionalist material as possible; indeed, the character of modern architecture morphs from internationalism into regionalism under the impact of this fair-sized volume. The result is a more politically correct treatment of modern architecture. The catalog accompanies an exhibition of the same name that will appear at leading museums around the world over the next two years, but the text will limit the book's appeal to serious readers.--Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780641580574
  • Publisher: Abrams, Harry N., Inc.
  • Publication date: 9/28/1998
  • Pages: 336
  • Product dimensions: 10.38 (w) x 12.08 (h) x 1.47 (d)

Table of Contents

Sponsor's Foreword 9
Foreword 11
Acknowledgments 15
Re-examining Architecture and its History at the End of the Century 22
Space, Time, and Movement 100
The Exhibitionist House 126
Internationalism Versus Regionalism 166
Cultural Intersections: Re-visioning Architecture and the City in the Twentieth Century 190
Urban Architecture and the Crisis of the Modern Metropolis 228
Latin America: The Places of the "Other" 276
Bibliography 321
Index 332
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    Posted November 19, 2004

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    its a book that can be admired for those who love architecture.. like myself!

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