The Details of modern architecture : 1928 to 1988 /

Ford, Edward R.

The Details of modern architecture : 1928 to 1988 / Edward R. Ford - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, c2003 - 447 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. - Volume 2 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Abbreviations and sources -- 1. Introduction: the artifacts of industriazation -- 2. Eliel Saarinen in Detroit: 1926-1940 -- 3. The conversion of Erik Gunnar Asplund: 1930-1940 -- 4. Richard Neutra and the architecture of surface: 1933-1952 -- 5. Alvar Aalto and Marcel Breuer: light, industrialization, and the vernacular, 1928-1963 -- 6. Le Corbusier after 1928:1928-1965 -- 7. Saarinen, Eames, Fuller, and the case study houses: 1940-1959 -- 8. Eero Saarinen after 1945: 1945-1962 -- 9. Louis Kahn, Sigurd Lewerntz, and the new brutalism: 1954-1974 -- 10. The Venturis, Graves, Scarpa, and the layers of history: 1963-1984 -- 11. High tech, deconstruction, and the present day: 1972-1988 -- 12. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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