The History of Architecture From the Avant-Garde Towards the Present
A Comprehensive Chronicle of 20th and 21st Century Buildings
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi
ADOMpublishers i Modern Architecture
Precursors 010-031 1918-1925 A Commingling of Languages 084-117 The Arts & Crafts Movement oil Comminglings 085
Sullivan and Wright 012 Between Formalism and Constructivism 086 Wagner, Olbrich, Hoffmann 016 Austro-American, Oriental and
Mackintosh 019 Meso-American Languages 090
Berlage 022 Architecture and Expressionism 093
Gaudi 026 Order and Disorder 095
Perret 027 The Bauhaus: Act One 097
Gamier 030 The Tower of Babel:
Two Competitions for Two Skyscrapers 099
1905-1914 The Avant-Garde 032-049 ABC and Constructivism 102
The Acceleration of Technology and Science 033 Poetism and Constructivism: Teige 104
A New Vision of Time 034 The Lesson of De Stijl 105
The Artistic Revolution: Expressionism 036 Toward a New Architecture 109 The Artistic Revolution: Cubism 038 The Exposition Internationale in Paris 110 Architecture and Cubism 039 Behne and the Synthesis between
Art and Life, Form and Abstraction 041 Expressionism and Rationalism 114
Upside Down 044
The Avant-Gardes 047 1925-1933 Maturation and the Crisis of Languages 118-173
Futurism 047 Loos-dada 119 The Birth and Death of Der Ring 122
1905-1914 Industry and Ornament 050-061 Dutch Rationalism 124
Ornament is Crime 051 The Bauhaus: Act Two 128
The Werkbund 052 Neutra, Schindler, Wright and Mendelsohn 131
Loos in Vienna 053 The Architectural Zoo: The Weissenhofsiedlung 133
Behrens and the AEG, Gropius and the Fagus Factory 056 The Italians at the Weissenhof 137 Wright in Europe 058 The Wittgenstein House 138
The Werkbund Exhibition of 1914 060 The Bauhaus: Act Three 140
Le Corbusier, Mies and the "Spirit of the Times" 142
1914-1918 Ideas arWar 062-083 Soviet Synthesis 147
The Mechanical War 063 The CIAM 150 Pure Visibility and Formalisms 065 The Architecture of Light 154 Philosophy in the Form of Architecture: The Tractatus 066 Skyscrapers 156
Language and Form 067 Chareau and the Maison de Verre 159 Malevich, Tatlin and the Zero Degree of Form 068 Fuller and the Dymaxion 162 Dada and the Impossibility of Defining Art 071 Ten Years of the Fascist Revolution 165
Theo van Doesburg and De Stijl 074 The Bauhaus: Final Act 168 Purism and a Return to Order 080 The International style 169 Epilogue 171 2 The Decline and Rebirth of Modern Architecture
1933-1944 Between Nature and Technology 176-203
After Classicism 177
Le Corbusier at the Crossroads 178 Wright and the Season of Masterpieces 184 Asplund, Aalto and Organic Architecture in Europe 189
Prouve: High-Tech Exercises 193
Contradictions in Italian Architecture 194
The World of Tomorrow 200
Kicsler and Correalism 203
1945-1955 Reawakenings 204-235
A New Monumentality 205
Le Corbusier and Brutalism 206
Eames House 210
Wright: Late Works 211
Mies in America 215
Endless House 218
Niemeyer 220 The Organic Architecture of Scharoun 222
A New Life for Louis Kahn 224
Aalto. Two Masterpieces 227 Italy, between Organicism, Neorealism and a Nostalgia for History 228
Urban Design, Team 10, New Brutalism 232 3 From Modern to Contemporary
1956-1965 A New Era 238-279 1970-1975 The Obsession with Language 300-317
A New Era 239 Five Architects, NY 301
This is Tomorrow 240 Learning from Las Vegas 304 Situations 241 SITE 306
Gutai and Metabolism 242 The New Domestic Landscape: 1972 307 Saarinen: Between History and Technology 245 Anarchitccture 31(5 Utzon and the Sydney Opera House 248 Aldo Rossi and La Tendenza 313 Scharoun: Two Masterpieces 250 Post-Modern 315
Aalto and His Late Works 253
Kahn and Nostalgia 254 1975-1980 Rhizomes 318-337 Restless Italy 257 Rhizomes 319 Other Trends in Italy 260 From Archigram to High Tech 322
Two Poets: Scarpa and Michelucci 261 Neo-Functionalism or Post-Functionalism? 324 Brasilia 264 Tschumi: Between Eroticism and
Le Corbusier: Toward a New Architecture 266 the Poetic of the Body 325 Fun Palace 267 Koolhaas and the Culture of Congestion 326 Johansen and the Informel 268 The Layers of the Architectural Association 328 Archigram: The Beginning (1961-1964) 270 Ito and the Notion of Architecture as a Virtual Interior.... 331 The Archaic-Ecological Line 272 Gehry: A California Striptease 332 Tange between East and West 273 Death in Venice: 1980 334
Kahn's Last Works 274 Restless Englishmen: Stirling and Lasdun 276 1980-1989 Architecture is Now 338-355 An End to Mourning 339 1966-1970 The Poetics of Protest 280-299 Jameson and the Logic of Late Capitalism 340 Against Interpretation 281 The Aesthetic of the Sublime 342 Contradictions and Complexity 281 Architecture and Nature 347 Archigram 1966: The New Line 283 Architecture is Now 349
The Avant-Garde and a Time of Protest 284 Choral Works 352
Mega-Structures: Between Habitat 67 and Osaka 288 Electronic ecology 354 Ecology and the Refusal of Urban Values 295 Between Land Art and Conceptual Art:
Architecture as a Mental Exercise 296 4 Toward the Present
1988-1992 After Deconstructivism 358-399 1998-2001 A Season of Masterpieces 430-475 Precedents 359 The Guggenheim in Bilbao by Frank O. Gehry 431
Deconstructivist Architecture 363 The House in Floirac by Rem Koolhaas 434 A New Paradigm 365 The Jewish Museum in Berlin by Daniel Libeskind 436
Zaha and the Game of Opposites 368 The KKL in Lucerne by Jean Nouvel 440
Rem Koolhaas: Method and its Paradoxes 372 The Un-Private House 441
Frank O. Gehry: New Compositions 374 The Mobius House 443
Disjunction and De-Localisation 377 A Dutchness in the State of Architecture 445
Between Gesture and Perception: Fuksas and Holl 379 New Landscapes, New Language 449 The Minimalist Approach: Herzog & de Meuron 383 New Landscape: The West and East Coast 460 Minimalism in England, France and Japan 386 A New Avant-Garde 464
The Development of High Tech 389 Landscapes or Aesthetic Objects? 466
Postmodernism and Modernism Continued 393 Aesthetics, Ethics and Mutations 472
The Legacy of Deconstructivism 398 The Eleventh of September Two Thousand and One 473
Starting Over 475 1993-1997 New Directions 400-429
The Turning Point 401 2002-2007 Trends 476-509
Explosive Buildings 4°2 The World Trade Center 477 Los Angeles, Graz and Barcelona 405 Clouds and Monoliths 480 Radicals and Coop Himmelb(l)au 408 The Star System 482 Nouvel: Beyond Transparency 410 The Crisis of the Star System 485
Herzog & de Meuron and the Skin of the Building 411 The Crisis of Architectural Criticism 487 Minimalisms 413 The End of the Star System? 488
Questions of Perception 413 Ten Projects 490
Koolhaas: Euralille 415 Super-Creativity and Ultra-Minimalism 501
The Poetics of the Electronic: Back to Basics 5°4 Between the Blob the and Metaphor 417 The Next Stop 507 Kco-Tcch 418
Renzo Piano's Soft-Tech 422 2008-2018 Latest History 510-519 PAYS-BAS Perspectives 423 Pro and Versus a New Architecture 425 Appendix 520-528 The MoMA Extension 427 Index of Architects 522-526
The Beginnings of a New Season 429 Acknowledgements 527