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Contents
Picture Credits iv
Preface vi
PART ONE The Form Givers 1
1: Louis Sullivan: Skyscraper Poet 2
2: Frank Lloyd Wright: The American Architect 6
3: Auguste Perret: Pioneer in Concrete 28
4: Le Corbusier: Vision and Form 30
5: Walter Gropius: The Triumph of an Idea 46
6: Mies van der Rohe: The Architect of Steel 58
7: Alvar Aalto: Master Builder of the North 74
PART TWO Modern in Transition 85
8: Richard J. Neutra: The Nature of Habitat 86
9: Marcel Breuer: The Bauhaus Continued 92
10: Wallace K. Harrison: The Architect as Coordinalor 102
11: Edward D. Stone: The New Romanticism 110
12: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: The Team Approach 120
13: Eero Saarinen: Unity within Diversity 135
14: Minoru Yamasaki: Serenity and Delight 148
15: Philip C. Johnson: The Return of Elegance 154
16: The Second Generation: The Expanding Tradition 162
17: Rudolph and Lundy: New Talent 173
18: Louis Kahn: The Esthetic of Space 180
19: Kenzo Tange: The Meeting of East and West 186
20: Oscar Niemeyer: Builder of Bras-lia 192
PART THREE Structures in Space 203
21: Robert Maillart: The Vault through Space 204
22: Eduardo Torroja: The Art of Structure 208
23: Felix Candela: The World of Shells 216
24: Pier Luigi Nervi: Poetry in Concrete 222
25: R. Buckminster Fuller: Designer for the Space Age 230
Notes 238
Bibliography 241
Index 244

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Publication Information: Book Title: Architecture Today and Tomorrow. Contributors: Cranston Jones - author. Publisher: McGraw-Hill. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1961. Page Number: vii.
    
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