Fagus Works and Cologne Werkbund Exhibition -- aims and buildings of the Bauhaus -- hous- ing -- Gropius and England -- buildings in America -- a new conception of the architect's role.
Pupil of Behrens -- studies in glass, reinforced concrete and domestic architecture -- "flowing space" -- Barcelona pavilion and Tugendhat house -- Illinois Institute of Technology recent buildings by Mies van der Rohe: the glass cube and the single space.
His architectural and aesthetic philosophy -- the "machine to live in" -- houses and projects -- Rio de Janeiro -- from the plastic detail to the plastic building -- the "Unité d'Habitation" -- Le Corbusier and town-planning.
Surfaces, cubes, the relationship of the stereometric (building) mass to its site -- "De Stijl" and its intellectual and historical bases -- parallels with Suprematism -- "De Stijl" buildings.
Declining emphasis on formal and functional factors -- C.I.A.M. -- changes in the planning of housing schemes: Dammerstock and New Kensington -- Competition for the Trades Union School at Bernau sets the new critical standard -- Aalto's sanatorium at Paimio.
Neo-classicism and monumentality in the thirties -- Aalto as a counterblast dynamic space the new significance of landscape -- architecture for everyman.
Visible and "perceptible" skeleton construction -- transverse and longitudinal beam systems and their aesthetic consequences -- the fashionable form of the horizontal ribbon window -- Erich Mendelsohn's progress -- the curtain wall -- visible and "perceptible" skeleton frame construction reaches a new stage: Lever House and Inland Steel building -- a synthesis achieved with Mies van der Rohe.
The Century Hall at Breslau --n Eugène Freyssinet development of reinforced concrete shells -- Torroja and Maillart -- master of reinforced concrete: Pier Luigi Nervi -- Felix Candela -- the construction of hanging roofs -- space frames with metal struts -- idiosyncrasies of modern architecture.
England in the nineteenth century -- Influence of Gropius and Mendelsohn -- Maxwell Fry and Owen Williams -- the idea of the satellite town -- English school design -- the Festival of Britain.
Engineer-architects of the nineteenth century -- Perret, France's teacher -- Le Corbusier's atelier and worldwide influence -- prefabrication and rationalization -- French architects in North Africa.
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Publication Information: Book Title: A History of Modern Architecture. Contributors: Jürgen Joedicke - author. Publisher: Frederick A. Praeger. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1959. Page Number: 6.
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