Description
Colquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations in the back of this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and screw ups. The book makes a speciality of the work of the primary architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, re-examining their work and shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. The writer presents a captivating analysis of architecture with regard to politics, technology, and ideology, all at the same time as offering clear descriptions of the important thing elements of the Brand new movement.
Colquhoun shows clearly the evolution of the movement from Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the mega-structures of the 1960s, revealing the incessantly-contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition.