Introduction
         PART I – Cultural Developments and Predisposing Techniques 1750 – 1939
         Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical Architecture 1750 – 1900
         Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800 – 1909
         Technical transformations: structural engineering 1775 – 1939
         PART II – A Critical History 1836 – 1967
         News from Nowhere: England 1836 – 1924
         Adler and Sullivan: the Auditorium and the high rise 1886 – 95
         Frank Lloyd Wright and the myth of the Prairie 1890 – 1916
         Structural Rationalism and the influence of Viollet-le-Duc; Gaudí, Horta, Guimard and Berlage 1880-1910
         Charles Rennie Mackinstosh and the Glasgow School 1896 – 1916
         The Sacred Spring: Wagner, Olbrich and Hoffman 1886 – 1912
         Antonio Sant‘Elia and Futurist Architecture 1909 – 14
         Adolf Loos and the crisis of culture 1896 – 1931
         Henry van de Velde and the abstraction of empathy 1895 – 1914
         Tony Garnier and the Industrial City 1899 – 1918
         Auguste Perret: the evolution of Classical Rationalism 1899 – 1925
         The Deutsche Werkbund 1898 – 1927
         The Glass Chain: European architectural Expressionism 1910 – 25
         The Bauhaus: the evolution of an idea 1919 – 32
         The New Objectivity: Germany, Holland and Switzerland 1923 – 33
         De Stijl: the evolution and dissolution of Neo-Plasticism 1917 – 31
         Le Corbusier and the Esprit Nouveau 1907 – 31
         Mies van der Rohe and the significance of fact 1921 – 33
         The New Collectivity: art and architecture in the Soviet Union 1918 - 32
         Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse 1928 – 46
         Frank Lloyd Wright and the Disappearing City 1929 – 63
         Alvar Aalto and the Nordic tradition: National Romanticism and the Doricist sensibility 1895 – 1957
         Giuseppe Terragni and the architecture of Italian rationalism 1926 – 43
         Architecture and the State: ideology and representation 1914 – 43
         Le Corbusier and the monumentalization of the vernacular 1930 - 60
         Mies van der Rohe and the monumentalization of technique 1933 – 67
         The Eclipse of the New Deal: Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn 1934 – 64
         PART III – Critical assessment and extension into the present 1925 - 91
         The International Style: theme and variations 1925 – 65
         New Brutalism and the architecture of the Welfare State: England 1949 – 59
         The vicissitudes of ideology: CIAM and Team X, critique and counter-critique 1928 – 68
         Place, Production and Scenography: international theory and practice since 1962
         Critical Regionalism: modern architecture and cultural identity
         World architecture and reflective practice
         NEW: Architecture in the Age of Globalization: topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality, habitat and civic form 1975 - 2007
         Select Bibliography
         Acknowledgments
         Index
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