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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Joedicke, Jürgen. History of modern architecture. New York, Praeger [1959] (OCoLC)557996245 |
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| 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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