This new account of global modernism explores the advanced motivations at the back of this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and screw ups. The work of the principle architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new gentle on their roles as acknowledged masters.
Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau within the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the steadily contradictory demands of shape, serve as, social engagement, modernity and tradition.
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