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| Author(s): | P. Blundell Jones |
| Publisher: | Architectural Press |
| ISBN: | 0750638052 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 255pp | |
| Price: | £35.00 |
| Review Date: | 03 October 2002 |
| Review: | This book looks at the Modern Movement in architecture (covering the period roughly from 1927 to the early 1970s) through a series of case studies. Fifteen buildings, designed by 15 different architects are covered. They range form the Weissenhof Experiment in Stuttgart in 1927, which was a modern housing development, to the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, built in 1966-72. Each case study is accompanied by the theoretical ideas behind it as well as a looking at the architects. The buildings are looked at in chronological order. Among the architects’ works are those of Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. |