Architecture in the twentieth century / Peter Gössel, Gabriele Leuthäuser ; [English translation, Judith Vachon]

Gössel, Peter (1956-)

1991, First Edition. Köln : Benedikt Taschen. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #447937
ISBN: 3822805505

Physical description: 432 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. Notes: Translation of L'architecture du vingtième siécle. Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-429) and index. Text in English. Translated from German.
Contents: 1784-1916: Prologue. Of iron giants and glass virgins. The Chicago School -- 1892-1925: L'Entree du siecle. In the far landscape. Circle and square. The modern factory. Creative in concrete -- 1912-1939: The return of art. Volmetric experiments. Housing estates. Machines for living in. The international style. The new deal -- 1944-1971: Case studies. Less is more. Stonebound. The flying roof. Concrete containers -- 1956-1990: Learning from Las Vegas. The whites. Work on Modernism. The rational south. Open structures. The post-modern city. Bellevue. Concrete poems. Architecture for the arts.
Biographies: Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalton (1898-1976) -- Arquitectonica -- Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) -- Peter Behrens (1868-1940) -- Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934) -- Mario Botta (1943-) John Gerard Dinkeloo (1918-1981) -- Willen Marinus Dudok (1884-1974) -- Egon Eiermann (1904-1970) -- Peter Eisenman (1932- ) -- Norman Foster (1935- ) -- Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) -- Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) -- Frank O. Gehry (1929- ) -- Irving John Gill (1870-1936) -- Michael Graves (1934- ) -- Vittorio Gregotti (1927- ) -- Walter Gropius (1883-1969) -- Hector Guimard (1867-1942) -- Robert van't Hoff (1887-1979) -- Josef Hoffman (1870-1956) -- Hans Hollein (1934- ) -- Victor Horta (1861-1947) -- Helmut Jahn (1940- ) -- Philip Cortelyou Johnson (1906- ) -- Albert Kahn (1869-1942) -- Louis Isidore Kahn (1901-1974) -- Le Corbusier (1887-1965) -- Adolf Loos (1870-1933) -- Hans Luckhardt (1890-1954) and Wassili Luckhardt (1889-1972). Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1869-1928) -- Ernst May (1886-1970) -- Richard Alan Meier (1934- ) -- Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (1890-1974) -- Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) -- Charles Willard Moore (1925- ) -- Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) -- Richard Josef Neutra (1892-1970) -- Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908) -- Frei Otto (1925- ) -- Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (1890-1963) -- Gustav Peichl (1928- ) -- Auguste Perret (1874-1954) -- Renzo Piano (1937- ) -- Hans Poelzig (1869-1936) -- Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888-1964) -- Kevin Eamonn Roche (1922- ) -- Richard Rogers (1933- ) -- Aldo Rossi (1931- ) -- Paul Marvin Rudolph (1918- ) -- Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) -- Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) -- Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) -- Rudolf Michael Schindler (1887-1953) -- Vladimir Grigorevich Schuchov (1853-1939) -- SITE / James Wines (1932- ) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- James Stirling (1926- ) -- Louis Henry Sullivan (1856-1924)
Kenzo Tange (1913- ) -- Bruno Taut (1880-1938) -- Giuseppe Terragni (1904-1943) -- Bernard Tschumi (1944- ) -- Henry-Clement van de Velde (1863-1957) -- Robert Venturi (1925- ) -- Otto Koloman Wagner (1841-1918) -- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Subjects: 1900-1999. Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.

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