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Book Synopsis
Unprecedented in its in-depth coverage, and with over 500 illustrations, photographs, and architectural drawings the multi-volume Companion to the History of Architecture offers an indispensable resource on architectural thought and practice ranging from the 15 th century to the present day.

Table of Contents

VOLUME I

List of Illustrations

About the Editors

Contributors to Volume I

Contents of The Companions to the History of Architecture

Introduction: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
Alina Payne xxv

Part I The Building Blocks

Architecture and its Culture

1. When did the Renaissance in Architecture Begin?: From Panofskian Mythography to Vasarian History
Marvin Trachtenberg

2. Vitruvius and the Architectural Treatise in Early Modern Europe
Tod A. Marder

3. Architecture and Antique Sculpture in Early Modern Rome
Kathleen Christian

4. What Drawings did in Renaissance Italy
Cammy Brothers

5. Materiality, Ornament, and Media Overlaps: Architecture Between Art and Building Science
Alina Payne

6. Theater and Architecture: Toward a Material History of Renaissance Theater
Alice Jarrard

7. Architecture and the Sciences
Pamela O. Long

8. Vaults and Domes: Statics as an Art
Federico Bellini

City, War, and Religion

9. The Birth of the Modern City
Claudia Conforti

10. The City at War and the Semantic Armament of Renaissance Architecture
Marion Hilliges

11. Taking Place: Architecture and Religious Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Helen Hills

12. Jesuit Architecture Worldwide: A Culture of Corporate Invention
Evonne Levy

Part II Global Geographies and European Internationalism

France, the Low Countries, and Britain

13. Medici Queens as Patrons in France
Sabine Frommel

14. Classicism and Church Architecture in Early Seventeenth-Century France: Aspects and Debates
Erika Naginski

15. Religious Architecture and the Image in the Southern Netherlands after the Beeldenstorm: Shrines for Miracle-Working Statues of the Virgin Mary
Maarten Delbeke

16. British Classicism to 1700 and the Search for a National Architectural Style
Vaughan Hart

17. Understanding Roman Architecture from a Distance: Sir Christopher Wren on the Temples of Peace and of Mars the Avenger
Caroline van Eck

Iberia, Spanish Italy, the Ottomans, and Latin America

18. Al-Andalus and Castile: Art and Identity in the Iberian Peninsula
Maria Feliciano and Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza

19. The Spanish Kingdom of Southern Italy: Architecture in Naples, Lecce, L’Aquila
Daniela del Pesco

20. Architectural Dialogues across the Eastern Mediterranean: Monumental Domed Sanctuaries in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy
Gülru Necipoğlu

21. The Classical Ideal in Portugal and the Portuguese World: From Lisbon to China
Nuno Senos

22. Baroque Spain: Architecture and Urbanism for a Universal Monarchy
Jesús Escobar

23. The Architecture of the Early Modern Period “Because Vitruvius did not Recommend Square Columns”: Europe, Latin America, and the Globalization of the Renaissance
Tom Cummins

The German Lands and Bohemia

24. Northern Imaginative Antiquarianism: The Dismembered Column as Relic and Tool
Christopher P. Heuer

25. The Reception and Flowering of Classicism in the German Lands
Harry Francis Mallgrave

26. Crossbreeding Cultures: Italian and Local, Elite and Popular: Building in Bohemia, 1490–1720
Dirk De Meyer

Index

VOLUME II

Contributors to Volume II

Introduction: Eighteenth-Century Architecture
Caroline van Eck and Sigrid de Jong

Part I: The Main Actors

The Architect

1 Open to all: Architectural education in the eighteenth century
Freek Schmidt

2 Architects’ Libraries
Robin L. Thomas

3 Laugier’s Prototypal Hut, Soufflot’s Sainte-Geneviève, and the Enlightenment Theory of Representation
Neil Levine

4 Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Architecture
Jean-François Bédard

Building Portraits 1698-1731 [format of these TBC]

Greenwich Hospital (1698 – 1728)
Vaughan Hart

Castle Howard (1699-1712)
Neil Levine

Blenheim (1705)
Vaughan Hart

Superga (1716-1731)
Cornelia Joechner

The Public

5 Architecture and the Spectator
Caroline Van Eck

6 To Move and to be Moved: Experiencing Architectural Space
Sigrid de Jong

7 Public Debate on Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France
Richard Wittman

8 Between the Stage and the Public Space: Refiguring Spectatorship in French Theatre Architecture
Bram van Oostveldt

9 Festival architecture as well-ordered entertainment
Eric Monin

Building Portraits 1716-1732

Karlskirche (1716-1737)
Anja Schuermann

Hôtel Amelot (1717)
Freek Schmidt

Saint Mary-le-Strand (1724)
Vaughan Hart

Chiswick Villa (1726-1732)
Barbara Arciszewska

The Patron

10 The Office of the King’s Works and the Modernization of Architectural Patronage in England
Barbara Arciszewska

11 ‘The Body Natural as well as the Body Politic stands indebted’: the hospital - foundation, funding and form
Ann-Marie Akehurst

12 Denmark, Norway and Sweden: the flirt with the French and its long-term effects
Juliette Roding

13 Interiors and Patronage
Meredith Martin

14 Female Architectural Patronage in 18th-Century France
Claire Ollagnier

Residenz Würzburg (1729-1744)
Freek Schmidt

All Souls College (1735)
Vaughan Hart

Radcliffe Camera (1739-1749)
Vaughan Hart

Vierzehnheiligen (1742-1744)
Jean-François Bédard

Part II: The Architectural Discourse

The Schools and the Academies

15 The Académie Royale d’Architecture 1671-1793
Christopher Drew Armstrong

16 London, Parma, Dresden. Exposition, Competition, Exhibition
Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

17 Architectural Discourse in Rome: Academies, Ruins and Books
Heather Hyde Minor

18 Architectural Debate in Venice
Lola Kantor-Kazovsky

Sanssouci (1743-45)
Jean-François Bédard

Bayreuth (1748)
Bram Van oostveldt

Strawberry Hill (1749-1790)
Michael Snodin

Albergo dei Poveri (1751)
Robin L. Thomas

Caserta (1751)
Robin L. Thomas

Architecture and the Sciences

19 ‘An exact and irreprochable Piece of Architecture should be the Flower and Crown as it were of all the Sciences Mathematical’
Matthew Walker

20 Measuring Classical Architecture
Amalia Papaioannou

Villa Albani (1757-1759)
Lauran Schijvens

Syon House (1760-1768)
Adriano Aynonimo

Petit Trianon (1761)
Christopher Drew Armstrong

Ecole de Chirurgie (1769-1774)
Richard Wittman

History and Historiography

21 Zeitgeist, Style, and Stimmung – notes on the historiography of architecture in the late eighteenth century
Mari Hvattum

22 The Historical Experience of How it All Began: the quest for the origins of architecture
Sigrid de Jong

23 Monuments
Maarten Delbeke

Théâtre Bordeaux (1773-1782)
Christopher Drew Armstrong

Somerset House (1776-1801)
Adriano Aynonimo

Barrières (1785)
Christopher Drew Armstrong

Luscombe House (1799)
John MacArthur

VOLUME III

Contributors to Volume III

Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Architecture
Martin Bressani and Christina Contandriopoulos

Part I Historicism, the Beaux-Arts, and the Gothic

1. Revivalism
Martin Bressani

2. Antiquity Reborn: Quatremère de Quincy’s Argument for Polychromy in Le Jupiter Olympien
Nicholas Roquet

3. The French Beaux-Arts
Jean-Philippe Garric

4. Outward Forms and Inward Spirit: The Recovery of Historical Church Architecture in the Nineteenth Century
Stephen Bann

5. Romantic Historiography and the Paradoxes of Historicist Architecture
Barry Bergdoll

6. Ruskin and Victorian Gothic
Stephen Kite

7. The Search for a National Style
Ákos Moravánszky

8. Gothic Historiography: An Interdisciplinary Speculation
Cameron A. Macdonell

Part II Debates on Structure, Materials, and Tectonic Expression

9. The New Material-Based Realism of Nineteenth-Century Theory and Practice
Neil Levine

10. Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Architecture
Timothy Brittain-Catlin

11. German Tectonics
Mitchell Schwartzer

12. Gottfried Semper and Modern German Theory
Harry Francis Mallgrave

13. Viollet-le-Duc’s Rationalism
Martin Bressani

14. Between the Visible and the Legible: Iron and Reinforced Concrete in Fin-de-Siècle France
Réjean Legault

Part III The Question of the House, Social Utopias, Science, and New Technological Infrastructures

15. Domestic Architecture as a Mode of Separation
Annmarie Adam

16. “The Science of the Plan.” House-Building and the Like, 1860–1930
Laurent Stalder

17. Comfort: Architecture’s Technological Dream
Georges Teyssot

18. Universal Expositions, Utopia, and Architecture
Antoine Picon

19. The Fourierist Phalanstère: Building a New Society through Architecture?
Laurent Baridon

20. From Object to Field: The Uses of Photography by Nineteenth-Century Architects
Peter Sealy

Part IV Psychology, Aesthetic, and Ornament

21. Decoration as Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Britain
David Brett

22. Ornament and Expressive Lines: Nature and Symbol in Victor Ruprich-Robert's Flore ornementale
Ralph Ghoche

23. Constructing Emotions. The Scientific Aesthetics of Architecture in France 1860–1900
Estelle Thibault

24. The Tectonics of the Soul: Animist Survivals in Nineteenth-Century Architecture and Ornamentation
Spyros Papapetros

Part V America

25. Furness, Richardson, and Sullivan, and the Anglo-French Synthesis
Michael J. Lewis

26. What American Architects Learned in Paris, 1845–1914
David Van Zanten

27. Structural Expression and Functional Representation in American Architecture 1850–1910
Joseph M. Siry

28. Canadian Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Identities in Tension
Marc Grignon and Christopher Thomas

Part VI Colonialism and Cross-Perspectives: Japan, China, Russia, India, etc.

29. Russian Architecture of the Nineteenth Century
Dmitry Shvidkovsky

30. Multiple Modernisms in Khedivial Egypt
Mercedes Volait

31. Dismembering and Remembering the Mughal Virtuous City in Nineteenth-Century British India
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer

32. Of Emperor and Empire: Architectural Constructions of Imperial Japan
Alice Y. Tseng

Index

VOLUME IV

Contributors to Volume IV

Introduction: The Project and Projects of Modern Architecture
David Leatherbarrow

Part I The Early Twentieth Century: Anticipating Modern Worlds

Introduction
Alexander Eisenschmidt

1. Schlesinger and Mayer Department Store/Carson Pirie Scott
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

2. House for an Art Lover: Reverberating Echoes
Amy Kulper

3. Postal Savings Bank: Timeless Modernity
Béla Kerékgyártó

4. AEG Turbine Factory
Gabriele H. Bryant

5. Glass House at Cologne
Markus Breitschmid

6. Città Nuova: Fast and Slow Futurism
Michelangelo Sabatino

Part II The Modern Project: Imagining New Worlds

Introduction
David Leatherbarrow

7. Monument to the Third International
Richard Anderson

8. Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper: Transfiguration through Glass, or Vertical and Horizontal Transparencies
Ufuk Ersoy

9. Brick Country House Project
George Dodds

10. Stockholm Public Library
Michael Asgaard Andersen

11. Contra-Construction: Theo Van Doesburg’s Oblique View of Modern Architecture
Hilary Bryon

12. Plan Voisin and the Functional City
Flora Samuel

Part III Revisiting the Modern Project: Constructing New Worlds

Introduction
David Leatherbarrow

13. The Goetheanum
Randall Ott

14. Dymaxion House: Ship Shape
AnnMarie Brennan

15. Schocken Department Store: “The Art of a Master”
Kathleen James-Chakraborty

16. E.1027: The Art of Dialogue
Caroline Constant

17. Villa Savoye: Building on a Clear Horizon
Richard Wesley

18. Villa Müller: Building Philosophy
Christopher Long

19. The VDL Research House
Edward R. Ford

20. The PSFS Building: Modern Architecture for the Corporate Client
Grace Ong Yan

21. Fallingwater
Neil Levine

22. Danteum
Jonathan Mekinda

23. Maison du Peuple: The Craft of Industrialized Construction
Anne Beim

24. The Villa Mairea
Scott Poole

Part IV Postwar Trends: Beginning Again, But Not at the Beginning

Introduction
David Leatherbarrow

25. Endless House
William W. Braham

26. Golden Lane: The Design and Urbanism of Megastructures
Eric Mumford

27. Pajaritos Chapel, Maipu, Chile
Rodrigo Perez de Arce

28. The Naked City: Why Put a Collage in a Book on Modern Architecture?
Simon Sadler

29. Brasilia: The Pilot Plan and its Monuments
Carlos Eduardo Comas

30. Church of Christ the Worker
Stanford Anderson

31. Burgerweeshuis Orphanage: A CIty-like House
Nathaniel Coleman

32. Plan for Tokyo
Zhongjie Lin

Part V The 1960s and 1970s: Questioning Modern Worlds

Introduction
Alexander Eisenschmidt

33. Mother’s House
Martino Stierli

34. Salk Institute: Hard-won Calm
Daniel S. Friedman

35. Brion Cemetery: Between Worlds
Michael Cadwell

36. Swimming Pool on the Beach at Leça de Palmeira: The Presence of the Atlantic Ocean
Christian Gänshirt

37. Walking City: Archigram and the Pursuit of Style
Sarah Deyong

38. Kharga Market: From Vernacularism to Regionalism
Hassan Radoine

39. Marie Short House
Maryam Gusheh and Catherine Lassen

40. Centre Pompidou
Hadas A. Steiner

41. Teatro del Mondo
Mary Lou Lobsinger

42. Sangath
Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

Part VI The Present Generation: Engaging the Contemporary World

Introduction
Alexander Eisenschmidt

43. Parc de la Villette and its Afterlife
Julia Czerniak

44. Stone House: Between the Human and the Non-human
Philip Ursprung

45. The Church of the Light
Jin Baek

46. Kunsthal: The Pliable Surface
Roberto Gargiani

47. Bilbao Guggenheim: A Secular Cathedral of Art
Richard M. Sommer

48. Yokohama: International Passenger Terminal
Helene Furján

49. Sendai Mediatheque: The Fifth Plan
Ron Witte

50. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
Xavier Costa

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      Book Synopsis
      Unprecedented in its in-depth coverage, and with over 500 illustrations, photographs, and architectural drawings the multi-volume Companion to the History of Architecture offers an indispensable resource on architectural thought and practice ranging from the 15 th century to the present day.

      Table of Contents

      VOLUME I

      List of Illustrations

      About the Editors

      Contributors to Volume I

      Contents of The Companions to the History of Architecture

      Introduction: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
      Alina Payne xxv

      Part I The Building Blocks

      Architecture and its Culture

      1. When did the Renaissance in Architecture Begin?: From Panofskian Mythography to Vasarian History
      Marvin Trachtenberg

      2. Vitruvius and the Architectural Treatise in Early Modern Europe
      Tod A. Marder

      3. Architecture and Antique Sculpture in Early Modern Rome
      Kathleen Christian

      4. What Drawings did in Renaissance Italy
      Cammy Brothers

      5. Materiality, Ornament, and Media Overlaps: Architecture Between Art and Building Science
      Alina Payne

      6. Theater and Architecture: Toward a Material History of Renaissance Theater
      Alice Jarrard

      7. Architecture and the Sciences
      Pamela O. Long

      8. Vaults and Domes: Statics as an Art
      Federico Bellini

      City, War, and Religion

      9. The Birth of the Modern City
      Claudia Conforti

      10. The City at War and the Semantic Armament of Renaissance Architecture
      Marion Hilliges

      11. Taking Place: Architecture and Religious Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Italy
      Helen Hills

      12. Jesuit Architecture Worldwide: A Culture of Corporate Invention
      Evonne Levy

      Part II Global Geographies and European Internationalism

      France, the Low Countries, and Britain

      13. Medici Queens as Patrons in France
      Sabine Frommel

      14. Classicism and Church Architecture in Early Seventeenth-Century France: Aspects and Debates
      Erika Naginski

      15. Religious Architecture and the Image in the Southern Netherlands after the Beeldenstorm: Shrines for Miracle-Working Statues of the Virgin Mary
      Maarten Delbeke

      16. British Classicism to 1700 and the Search for a National Architectural Style
      Vaughan Hart

      17. Understanding Roman Architecture from a Distance: Sir Christopher Wren on the Temples of Peace and of Mars the Avenger
      Caroline van Eck

      Iberia, Spanish Italy, the Ottomans, and Latin America

      18. Al-Andalus and Castile: Art and Identity in the Iberian Peninsula
      Maria Feliciano and Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza

      19. The Spanish Kingdom of Southern Italy: Architecture in Naples, Lecce, L’Aquila
      Daniela del Pesco

      20. Architectural Dialogues across the Eastern Mediterranean: Monumental Domed Sanctuaries in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy
      Gülru Necipoğlu

      21. The Classical Ideal in Portugal and the Portuguese World: From Lisbon to China
      Nuno Senos

      22. Baroque Spain: Architecture and Urbanism for a Universal Monarchy
      Jesús Escobar

      23. The Architecture of the Early Modern Period “Because Vitruvius did not Recommend Square Columns”: Europe, Latin America, and the Globalization of the Renaissance
      Tom Cummins

      The German Lands and Bohemia

      24. Northern Imaginative Antiquarianism: The Dismembered Column as Relic and Tool
      Christopher P. Heuer

      25. The Reception and Flowering of Classicism in the German Lands
      Harry Francis Mallgrave

      26. Crossbreeding Cultures: Italian and Local, Elite and Popular: Building in Bohemia, 1490–1720
      Dirk De Meyer

      Index

      VOLUME II

      Contributors to Volume II

      Introduction: Eighteenth-Century Architecture
      Caroline van Eck and Sigrid de Jong

      Part I: The Main Actors

      The Architect

      1 Open to all: Architectural education in the eighteenth century
      Freek Schmidt

      2 Architects’ Libraries
      Robin L. Thomas

      3 Laugier’s Prototypal Hut, Soufflot’s Sainte-Geneviève, and the Enlightenment Theory of Representation
      Neil Levine

      4 Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Architecture
      Jean-François Bédard

      Building Portraits 1698-1731 [format of these TBC]

      Greenwich Hospital (1698 – 1728)
      Vaughan Hart

      Castle Howard (1699-1712)
      Neil Levine

      Blenheim (1705)
      Vaughan Hart

      Superga (1716-1731)
      Cornelia Joechner

      The Public

      5 Architecture and the Spectator
      Caroline Van Eck

      6 To Move and to be Moved: Experiencing Architectural Space
      Sigrid de Jong

      7 Public Debate on Architecture in Eighteenth-Century France
      Richard Wittman

      8 Between the Stage and the Public Space: Refiguring Spectatorship in French Theatre Architecture
      Bram van Oostveldt

      9 Festival architecture as well-ordered entertainment
      Eric Monin

      Building Portraits 1716-1732

      Karlskirche (1716-1737)
      Anja Schuermann

      Hôtel Amelot (1717)
      Freek Schmidt

      Saint Mary-le-Strand (1724)
      Vaughan Hart

      Chiswick Villa (1726-1732)
      Barbara Arciszewska

      The Patron

      10 The Office of the King’s Works and the Modernization of Architectural Patronage in England
      Barbara Arciszewska

      11 ‘The Body Natural as well as the Body Politic stands indebted’: the hospital - foundation, funding and form
      Ann-Marie Akehurst

      12 Denmark, Norway and Sweden: the flirt with the French and its long-term effects
      Juliette Roding

      13 Interiors and Patronage
      Meredith Martin

      14 Female Architectural Patronage in 18th-Century France
      Claire Ollagnier

      Residenz Würzburg (1729-1744)
      Freek Schmidt

      All Souls College (1735)
      Vaughan Hart

      Radcliffe Camera (1739-1749)
      Vaughan Hart

      Vierzehnheiligen (1742-1744)
      Jean-François Bédard

      Part II: The Architectural Discourse

      The Schools and the Academies

      15 The Académie Royale d’Architecture 1671-1793
      Christopher Drew Armstrong

      16 London, Parma, Dresden. Exposition, Competition, Exhibition
      Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

      17 Architectural Discourse in Rome: Academies, Ruins and Books
      Heather Hyde Minor

      18 Architectural Debate in Venice
      Lola Kantor-Kazovsky

      Sanssouci (1743-45)
      Jean-François Bédard

      Bayreuth (1748)
      Bram Van oostveldt

      Strawberry Hill (1749-1790)
      Michael Snodin

      Albergo dei Poveri (1751)
      Robin L. Thomas

      Caserta (1751)
      Robin L. Thomas

      Architecture and the Sciences

      19 ‘An exact and irreprochable Piece of Architecture should be the Flower and Crown as it were of all the Sciences Mathematical’
      Matthew Walker

      20 Measuring Classical Architecture
      Amalia Papaioannou

      Villa Albani (1757-1759)
      Lauran Schijvens

      Syon House (1760-1768)
      Adriano Aynonimo

      Petit Trianon (1761)
      Christopher Drew Armstrong

      Ecole de Chirurgie (1769-1774)
      Richard Wittman

      History and Historiography

      21 Zeitgeist, Style, and Stimmung – notes on the historiography of architecture in the late eighteenth century
      Mari Hvattum

      22 The Historical Experience of How it All Began: the quest for the origins of architecture
      Sigrid de Jong

      23 Monuments
      Maarten Delbeke

      Théâtre Bordeaux (1773-1782)
      Christopher Drew Armstrong

      Somerset House (1776-1801)
      Adriano Aynonimo

      Barrières (1785)
      Christopher Drew Armstrong

      Luscombe House (1799)
      John MacArthur

      VOLUME III

      Contributors to Volume III

      Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Architecture
      Martin Bressani and Christina Contandriopoulos

      Part I Historicism, the Beaux-Arts, and the Gothic

      1. Revivalism
      Martin Bressani

      2. Antiquity Reborn: Quatremère de Quincy’s Argument for Polychromy in Le Jupiter Olympien
      Nicholas Roquet

      3. The French Beaux-Arts
      Jean-Philippe Garric

      4. Outward Forms and Inward Spirit: The Recovery of Historical Church Architecture in the Nineteenth Century
      Stephen Bann

      5. Romantic Historiography and the Paradoxes of Historicist Architecture
      Barry Bergdoll

      6. Ruskin and Victorian Gothic
      Stephen Kite

      7. The Search for a National Style
      Ákos Moravánszky

      8. Gothic Historiography: An Interdisciplinary Speculation
      Cameron A. Macdonell

      Part II Debates on Structure, Materials, and Tectonic Expression

      9. The New Material-Based Realism of Nineteenth-Century Theory and Practice
      Neil Levine

      10. Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Architecture
      Timothy Brittain-Catlin

      11. German Tectonics
      Mitchell Schwartzer

      12. Gottfried Semper and Modern German Theory
      Harry Francis Mallgrave

      13. Viollet-le-Duc’s Rationalism
      Martin Bressani

      14. Between the Visible and the Legible: Iron and Reinforced Concrete in Fin-de-Siècle France
      Réjean Legault

      Part III The Question of the House, Social Utopias, Science, and New Technological Infrastructures

      15. Domestic Architecture as a Mode of Separation
      Annmarie Adam

      16. “The Science of the Plan.” House-Building and the Like, 1860–1930
      Laurent Stalder

      17. Comfort: Architecture’s Technological Dream
      Georges Teyssot

      18. Universal Expositions, Utopia, and Architecture
      Antoine Picon

      19. The Fourierist Phalanstère: Building a New Society through Architecture?
      Laurent Baridon

      20. From Object to Field: The Uses of Photography by Nineteenth-Century Architects
      Peter Sealy

      Part IV Psychology, Aesthetic, and Ornament

      21. Decoration as Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Britain
      David Brett

      22. Ornament and Expressive Lines: Nature and Symbol in Victor Ruprich-Robert's Flore ornementale
      Ralph Ghoche

      23. Constructing Emotions. The Scientific Aesthetics of Architecture in France 1860–1900
      Estelle Thibault

      24. The Tectonics of the Soul: Animist Survivals in Nineteenth-Century Architecture and Ornamentation
      Spyros Papapetros

      Part V America

      25. Furness, Richardson, and Sullivan, and the Anglo-French Synthesis
      Michael J. Lewis

      26. What American Architects Learned in Paris, 1845–1914
      David Van Zanten

      27. Structural Expression and Functional Representation in American Architecture 1850–1910
      Joseph M. Siry

      28. Canadian Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Identities in Tension
      Marc Grignon and Christopher Thomas

      Part VI Colonialism and Cross-Perspectives: Japan, China, Russia, India, etc.

      29. Russian Architecture of the Nineteenth Century
      Dmitry Shvidkovsky

      30. Multiple Modernisms in Khedivial Egypt
      Mercedes Volait

      31. Dismembering and Remembering the Mughal Virtuous City in Nineteenth-Century British India
      Santhi Kavuri-Bauer

      32. Of Emperor and Empire: Architectural Constructions of Imperial Japan
      Alice Y. Tseng

      Index

      VOLUME IV

      Contributors to Volume IV

      Introduction: The Project and Projects of Modern Architecture
      David Leatherbarrow

      Part I The Early Twentieth Century: Anticipating Modern Worlds

      Introduction
      Alexander Eisenschmidt

      1. Schlesinger and Mayer Department Store/Carson Pirie Scott
      Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

      2. House for an Art Lover: Reverberating Echoes
      Amy Kulper

      3. Postal Savings Bank: Timeless Modernity
      Béla Kerékgyártó

      4. AEG Turbine Factory
      Gabriele H. Bryant

      5. Glass House at Cologne
      Markus Breitschmid

      6. Città Nuova: Fast and Slow Futurism
      Michelangelo Sabatino

      Part II The Modern Project: Imagining New Worlds

      Introduction
      David Leatherbarrow

      7. Monument to the Third International
      Richard Anderson

      8. Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper: Transfiguration through Glass, or Vertical and Horizontal Transparencies
      Ufuk Ersoy

      9. Brick Country House Project
      George Dodds

      10. Stockholm Public Library
      Michael Asgaard Andersen

      11. Contra-Construction: Theo Van Doesburg’s Oblique View of Modern Architecture
      Hilary Bryon

      12. Plan Voisin and the Functional City
      Flora Samuel

      Part III Revisiting the Modern Project: Constructing New Worlds

      Introduction
      David Leatherbarrow

      13. The Goetheanum
      Randall Ott

      14. Dymaxion House: Ship Shape
      AnnMarie Brennan

      15. Schocken Department Store: “The Art of a Master”
      Kathleen James-Chakraborty

      16. E.1027: The Art of Dialogue
      Caroline Constant

      17. Villa Savoye: Building on a Clear Horizon
      Richard Wesley

      18. Villa Müller: Building Philosophy
      Christopher Long

      19. The VDL Research House
      Edward R. Ford

      20. The PSFS Building: Modern Architecture for the Corporate Client
      Grace Ong Yan

      21. Fallingwater
      Neil Levine

      22. Danteum
      Jonathan Mekinda

      23. Maison du Peuple: The Craft of Industrialized Construction
      Anne Beim

      24. The Villa Mairea
      Scott Poole

      Part IV Postwar Trends: Beginning Again, But Not at the Beginning

      Introduction
      David Leatherbarrow

      25. Endless House
      William W. Braham

      26. Golden Lane: The Design and Urbanism of Megastructures
      Eric Mumford

      27. Pajaritos Chapel, Maipu, Chile
      Rodrigo Perez de Arce

      28. The Naked City: Why Put a Collage in a Book on Modern Architecture?
      Simon Sadler

      29. Brasilia: The Pilot Plan and its Monuments
      Carlos Eduardo Comas

      30. Church of Christ the Worker
      Stanford Anderson

      31. Burgerweeshuis Orphanage: A CIty-like House
      Nathaniel Coleman

      32. Plan for Tokyo
      Zhongjie Lin

      Part V The 1960s and 1970s: Questioning Modern Worlds

      Introduction
      Alexander Eisenschmidt

      33. Mother’s House
      Martino Stierli

      34. Salk Institute: Hard-won Calm
      Daniel S. Friedman

      35. Brion Cemetery: Between Worlds
      Michael Cadwell

      36. Swimming Pool on the Beach at Leça de Palmeira: The Presence of the Atlantic Ocean
      Christian Gänshirt

      37. Walking City: Archigram and the Pursuit of Style
      Sarah Deyong

      38. Kharga Market: From Vernacularism to Regionalism
      Hassan Radoine

      39. Marie Short House
      Maryam Gusheh and Catherine Lassen

      40. Centre Pompidou
      Hadas A. Steiner

      41. Teatro del Mondo
      Mary Lou Lobsinger

      42. Sangath
      Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

      Part VI The Present Generation: Engaging the Contemporary World

      Introduction
      Alexander Eisenschmidt

      43. Parc de la Villette and its Afterlife
      Julia Czerniak

      44. Stone House: Between the Human and the Non-human
      Philip Ursprung

      45. The Church of the Light
      Jin Baek

      46. Kunsthal: The Pliable Surface
      Roberto Gargiani

      47. Bilbao Guggenheim: A Secular Cathedral of Art
      Richard M. Sommer

      48. Yokohama: International Passenger Terminal
      Helene Furján

      49. Sendai Mediatheque: The Fifth Plan
      Ron Witte

      50. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
      Xavier Costa

      Index

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