Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture

Description

• Connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins – analysing in straightforward and jargon-free language the genesis of modernism and the complex reactions to it
• Provides students with a clear understanding of the history of twentieth-century architecture, written with close critical attention to the theories that lie behind the built works described
• Illustrated with 200 colour and black and white illustrations, it is an enormously clear and accessible resource for any student of architecture