Twentieth-century architecture / Dennis P. Doordan.

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Twentieth-Century Architecture presents a meticulously detailed account of the many architectural orientations of the last 100 years. Taking a pluralistic approach toward the subject, the book moves beyond modernism and explores a broad spectrum of styles, several of which have been previously marginalized or ignored. The analysis, by scholar Dennis P. Doordan, is both exciting and, at the dawn of this new century, opportune.

Organized by theme -- Domestic Space, Political Architecture, Organic Form, Women in Architecture -- and building type -- department stores, skyscrapers, railroad stations, cinemas -- the material is structured in accessible "critical sets": groupings of examples that reveal different resolutions to common design challenges. Discursive captions accompany the illustrations, which include hundreds of diagrams, blueprints, and color photographs; a timeline tracks the development of architecture around the world.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I Confronting Modernity 1900-1940
• 1 The Modern City
• Responses to the Modern City
• The Emergence of the Modern Movement
• Housing
• Pieces of the City
• Women in Architecture
• Cultural Institutions
• The International Style
• Cinema Architecture
• Rockefeller Center and the General Motors
• 2 The House
• The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Prairie School
• European Developments
• Classicism
• Modernism
• American Developments
• Industrialization and the Home
• 3 The Architecture of Transportation and Industry
• Railroad Stations
• Urban Mass Transit Systems
• Automobile Service Stations
• Factory Architecture
• The German Experience
• Bridges
• 4 Architecture and Politics
• Scandinavia and the Netherlands
• The "Architecture of Empire." The Soviet Union
• Fascist Italy
• The Third Reich
• The United States
• II The ERA of Modernist Hegemony 1940-1965
• 5 The Triumph of Modernism
• The Industrialization of Design
• New Directions
• Rebuilding
• Reconfiguring Capitals
• Reconceptualizing the City
• Housing
• Skyscrapers
• Strategies of Display
• 6 Trends in Postwar Architecture
• Domestic Architecture
• Campus Architecture
• Museum Architecture
• Religious Architecture
• "The Style for the Job."
• III An ERA of Pluralism 1965-2000
• 7 Postmodernism, Deconstructivism, and Tradition
• Renewing Modernism from Within: Housing
• Silence and Light: Louis Kahn
• Postmodernism
• Deconstructivism
• The Return of Classicism
• Challenge and Adaptation
• Organic Form and Craft Building
• 8 Reconfiguring the City
• London
• Paris
• Berlin
• Frankfurt am Main
• Barcelona
• Traditional Architecture and the Reconstruction of the European City
• The New Urbanism in the United States
• 9 The Present as History
• Timeline
• Bibliography
• Index

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