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The details of modern architecture / Edward R. Ford.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2003, c1990-c1996.Edition: 1st MIT pbk. edDescription: 2 v. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780262562027 (v.1; hbk.) :
  • 026206121X (v.1; pbk.)
  • 9780262061216 (v.1; pbk.)
  • 0262562014 (v.2; pbk.) :
  • 9780262562010 (v.2; pbk.)
  • 0262061856 (v.2; hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA2840 .F67 2003
Contents:
VOL. 1. H.H. Richardson, Ralph Adams Cram, and the Gothic revival -- McKim, Mead & White and classical rationalism -- Edwin Lutyens and the language of classicism -- Arts and crafts movement: the Greene brothers and their English Contemporaries -- Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park -- Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos: Viennese rationalism -- Le Corbusier: the classic villa -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the steel frame -- Residential construction in America: Rudolph Schindler, Walater Gropius, and Marcel Breuer -- Frank Lloyd Wright: the usonian period -- VOL. 2. 1928 to 1988: -- Introduction: the artifacts of industrialization -- Eliel Saarinen in Detroit: 1926-1940 -- Conversion of Erik Gunnar Asplund: 1930-1940 -- Richard Neutra and the architecture of surface: 1933-1952 -- Alvar Aalto and Marcel Breuer: light, industrialization, and the vernacular, 1928-1963 -- Le Corbusier after 1928: 1928-1965 -- Saarinen, Eames, Fuller, and the case study houses: 1940-1959 -- Eero Saarinen after 1945: 1945-1962 -- Louis Kahn, Sigurd Lewerentz, and the new brutalism: 1954-1974 --The Venturis, Graves, Scarpa, and the layers of history: 1963-1984 -- High tech, deconstruction, and the present day: 1972-1988.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection NA 2840 .F67 2003 v.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 604385

Vol. 2 has subtitle: 1928-1988.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

VOL. 1. H.H. Richardson, Ralph Adams Cram, and the Gothic revival -- McKim, Mead & White and classical rationalism -- Edwin Lutyens and the language of classicism -- Arts and crafts movement: the Greene brothers and their English Contemporaries -- Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park -- Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos: Viennese rationalism -- Le Corbusier: the classic villa -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the steel frame -- Residential construction in America: Rudolph Schindler, Walater Gropius, and Marcel Breuer -- Frank Lloyd Wright: the usonian period -- VOL. 2. 1928 to 1988: -- Introduction: the artifacts of industrialization -- Eliel Saarinen in Detroit: 1926-1940 -- Conversion of Erik Gunnar Asplund: 1930-1940 -- Richard Neutra and the architecture of surface: 1933-1952 -- Alvar Aalto and Marcel Breuer: light, industrialization, and the vernacular, 1928-1963 -- Le Corbusier after 1928: 1928-1965 -- Saarinen, Eames, Fuller, and the case study houses: 1940-1959 -- Eero Saarinen after 1945: 1945-1962 -- Louis Kahn, Sigurd Lewerentz, and the new brutalism: 1954-1974 --The Venturis, Graves, Scarpa, and the layers of history: 1963-1984 -- High tech, deconstruction, and the present day: 1972-1988.

Originally published in 1996.

"Library carries only volume 2".

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