Disjunctions and continuities in the Europe of the 1950s Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian developments The unite d'habitation at Marseilles as a collective housing prototype Form and meaning in the late works of Le Corbusier Modern architecture in the U.S.A.: Immigration and consolidation International, national, regional: The diversity of a new tradition Totalitarian critiques of the modern movement The spread of modern architecture to Britain and Scandinavia Nature and the machine: Mies van der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s The image and idea of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye at Poissy. The international style, the individual talent and the myth of functionalism The ideal community: Alternatives to the industrial city Walter Gropius, German expressionism and the Bauhaus Cubism, de stijl and new conceptions of space National myths and classical transformations The architectural system of Frank Lloyd Wright Responses to mechanization: the Deutscher Werkbund and futurism Arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the U.S.A. Rationalism, the engineering tradition and reinforced concrete The search for new forms and the problems of ornament Industrialization and the city: The skyscraper as type and symbol The idea of a modern architecture in the nineteenth century
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