Theory and design in the first machine age

Banham, Reyner. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780262520584
ISBN: 0262520583
Physical Description: print
338 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
Edition: 1st MIT Press paperback ed.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1980, c1960.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"2d ed."

Includes index.

Reprint of the ed. published by the Architectural Press, London.

Formatted Contents Note:

The academic tradition and the concept of elementary composition -- Choisy : rationalism and technique -- The academic succession : Garnier and Perret -- England : Lethaby and Scott -- Germany : industry and the Werkbund -- The factory aesthetic -- Adolf Loos and the problem of ornament -- Futurism : the foundation manifesto -- Futurism : theory and development -- Sant'Elia and futurist architecture -- Holland : Berlage and attitudes to Wright -- De Stijl : the dutch phase -- Expressionism : Amsterdam and Berlin -- De Stijl : the international phase -- Architecture and the Cubist tradition -- Progressive building in Paris : 1918-1928 -- Vers une architecture -- Le Corbusier : town planning and aesthetics -- The Berlin school -- The Bauhaus -- Germany : the encyclopaedics -- Conclusion : functionalism and technology.