Style Guide: Modernism and the International Style

Examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific versions of modernism advanced by their historical narratives. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

The book is amply illustrated and features the most prominent and influential people in 20th-century modernist architecture. The profiles of individual architects include critical analysis of their major buildings and projects. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the career and legacy of Reyner Banham (1922-88), a prolific, iconoclastic critic of modern architecture, cities, and mass culture in Britain and the United States. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Presents studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines significant moments and phenomena in the historical and social history of British design, from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space, with case studies on designed spaces and objects. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores positions that are vital to ideas of national belonging through the history of colonial, bourgeois self-fashioning and post colonial identity construction in Sri Lanka. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. This book offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines the history of the Bauhaus and its continuing legacy. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Through a series of beautiful reproductions, this work provides an overview of the Bauhaus era, including the history, influence, and major figures of this revolutionary movement, which turned everyday life into art. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Breslau boasted a thriving modern arts scene and one of the premier German arts academies of the day until the Nazis began their assault on so-called degenerate art. This book charts the cultural production of Breslau-based artists, architects, art collectors, urban designers, and arts educators who operated in the margins of Weimar-era cultural debates. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the evolution of international modernism from Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the often contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition, and examines the work of leading architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).