Places the work of starchitects like Koolhaas, Eisenman, and Lyn alongside the work of prominent architectural criti
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Table of Contents
Preface xxviii
General Introduction xxix
Part I: Early Modernism 1
A. The Arts and Crafts Movement in Great Britain 3
Introduction 3
B. Continental Reforms 24
Introduction 24
C. Reforms in the United States 43
Introduction 43
D. Conceptual Underpinnings of German Modernism: Space, Form, and Realism 63
Introduction 63
Part II: The Formation of the Modern Movement: 1894–1914 85
A. The Wagner School and the German Werkbund 87
Introduction 87
B. Modernism Elsewhere in Europe 110
Introduction 110
C. The Chicago School and the American West 125
Introduction 125
Part III: The 1920s 143
A. American Modernism: 1918–32 145
Introduction 145
B. Soviet Constructivism 168
Introduction 168
C. De Stijl and Purism 180
Introduction 180
D. German Expressionism and the Bauhaus 195
Introduction 195
E. European Modernism: 1925–32 211
Introduction 211
Part IV: The Politics of Modernism: 1930–45 233
A. Totalitarianism in Europe 235
Introduction 235
B. American Academic and Architectural Reforms 255
Introduction 255
Part V: High Modernism in the Postwar Years 273
A. Postwar Theory in the United States 275
Introduction 275
B. Postwar Theory in Europe 293
Introduction 293
C. The Rise and Fall of CIAM 313
Introduction 313
Part VI: Critiques of Modernism: 1959–69 333
A. The Death of the American City 335
Introduction 335
B. Retreats and Utopianism 350
Introduction 350
C. Critiques of Modernism 368
Introduction 368
Part VII: The Prospect of a Postmodern Theory: 1969–79 393
A. Rationalism and the IAUS 395
Introduction 395
B. Semiotics and Phenomenology 420
Introduction 420
C. Alternative Strategies and Debates 435
Introduction 435
Part VIII: The 1980s 457
A. Poststructuralism and Deconstruction 459
Introduction 459
B. Postmodernism and Historicism 481
Introduction 481
C. Regionalism and Traditionalism 505
Introduction 505
Part IX: Millennial Tensions 533
A. Tectonics and Geometry 535
Introduction 535
B. The End of Theory? 562
Introduction 562
C. Beyond the New Millennium 582
Introduction 582
Acknowledgments 604
