This book on 20th-century architecture places the emphasis on individual architects, and on the qualities that give outstanding buildings their lasting value. It also provides treatment of technical, economic, social and intellectual developments, incorporating new knowledge and research. It places a greater emphasis on regional identity and variety, and this edition includes three new chapters on recent developments, and considerably more illustrations than the previous edition.

Modern Architecture Since 1900

Arts & Photography

William J.R. Curtis

Architecture

Prentice Hall College Div.

Modern Architecture was evolved less than a century ago to reconcile an idealized vision of society with the force of the industrial revolution.

Modern Architecture since 1900

Phaidon Press

Analyzes newly-released archival material to examine the architect's projects as they relate to his philosophy of life, his social visions, and his cultural milieu

Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms

Rizzoli

Le Corbusier has been one of the dominant forces in 20th-century architecture, and many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. This book provides a comprehensive survey that puts Le Corbusier's career into a more balanced perspective.

Le Corbusier Ideas & Forms

Book by William J.R. Curtis, Pulitzer Foundation For the Arts

Abstractions in space: Tadao Ando, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra

Pulitzer Foundation For the Arts

The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

The story of Mexican architecture in the second half of the 20th century cannot be told without the work of Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, whose complete works are collected in this definitive book. His banks, civic buildings, museums, corporate headquarters and office complexes have contributed to defining the urban texture of a large part of Mexico. Architect, urbanist, painter and sculptor, Gonzalez de Leon is also a tireless promoter of architecture as a cultural phenomenon. This third edition of his Collected Works compiles more than 60 years of militant commitment to the discipline, giving rise to a language as modern as it is timeless. Essays by William J.R. Curtis and Miquel Adria shed light on the evolution and complexity of the architect's work. Also includes texts by the architect himself.

Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon: Collected Works (English and Spanish Edition)

Miquel Adrià

Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon

Arquine

The team of architects consisting of Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta forms part of the new generation of Spanish architects whose emphatic work is making the running on the Spanish architectural scene of recent years. Undertaken from their office in the town of Olot (in the Province of Girona, Spain), their work pays vigorous attention to the landscape (natural or artificial), which is accomodated, framed and nuanced from the implantation of the building itself--as the originating concept of the project--to the choice of materials. The intensity of the implantation is transposed to clean and forceful volumetries that house spaces of an enormous richness within them, all this resolved with an exquisite professionalism and care in the material execution of the detailing. This book presents the complete works of RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta from 1990 to 2002, profusely illustrating every facet of this and even incorporating those constructional themes and details most relevant to resolving the execution of a series of buildings with immaculate lines.

RCR Aranda, Pigem ,Vilalta Architects (Spanish and English Edition)

Gustavo Gili

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