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A history of modern architecture.

Author: Jürgen Joedicke
Publisher: New York, Praeger [1959]
Series: Books that matter
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Joedicke, Jürgen.
History of modern architecture.
New York, Praeger [1959]
(OCoLC)557996245
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jürgen Joedicke
OCLC Number: 856149
Description: 243 p. illus. 26 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
The age of the pioneers --
Steel in nineteenth-century buildings --
The Chicago school --
Frank Lloyd Wright --
The trend away from eclecticism --
The beginnings of reinforced concrete in building --
Monumentalism and expression --
Masters of modern architecture --
Walter Gropius --
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe --
Le Corbusier --
Extension and development --
Accentuation of formal elements --
De Stijl --
The mellowing and refinement of form --
Alvar Aalto --
Evolution of skeleton frame construction --
New spatial conceptions --
The contribution of the nations --
Great Britain --
France --
Holland --
Germany --
Switzerland --
Sweden --
Denmark --
Finland --
Italy --
Brazil --
U.S.A.
Series Title: Books that matter
Responsibility: [Translated from the German by James C. Palmes]

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