Style Guide: Modernism and the International Style

The story of modern architecture is told here through the lives and works of three men who changed the face of the cities we live in: France' Le Corbusier, Germany's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and America's Frank Lloyd Wright.

Sets forth seven principles, or 'antirules,' to codify the new language of architecture created by Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Wright.

Rayner Banham's interests ranged from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and industrial design. This selection of essays includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos, Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus, as well as the contemporary architecture of Gehry, Stirling and Foster.

Examines the formation of attitudes, themes, and forms which were characteristic of artists and architects working primarily in Europe between 1900 and 1930 under the compulsion of new technological developments in the first machine age.

From Louis Sullivan, father of the skyscraper, to Frank Gehry, magician of the post-millennial museum, Filler emphasizes how their force of personality has had a decisive effect on everything from how we inhabit our homes to how we shape our cities.

Presents concise but authoritative studies on leading exponents of the building art from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

Examines how 'modernity' has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, how this definition has been expressed spatially and architecturally, and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives.

Explores the challenges that unconventional attitudes and ways of life have presented to architectural thinking -- and to the architects themselves. Focusing on six houses, the author investigates the roles played by both architects and clients, and describes the processes of collaboration and negotiation through which decisions about program and design were made. The houses are: Hollyhock House, the Truus Schröder House, the villa 'Les Terrasses,' the Edith Farnsworth House, the Constance Perkins House, and the Vanna Venturi House.

Features the female painters, photographers, architects, sculptors, and designers of the vanguard Bauhaus School, who helped shape the cultural history of the twentieth century.

Traces the ideas behind the Bauhaus, a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933, and describes its teaching methods, which left an indelible mark on art education throughout the world.