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Makers Of Modern Architecture (Paperback, Main)
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Makers Of Modern Architecture (Paperback, Main)
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Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few
understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged
little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even
spiritual aspirations were. Through illuminating studies of the
leading men and women who forever changed our built environment,
veteran architecture critic Martin Filler offers fresh insights
into this unprecedented cultural transformation. From Louis
Sullivan, father of the skyscraper, to Frank Gehry, magician of
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.
Why was the sudden shift in architectural fashion that wrecked the
career of the Scottish designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh not
enough to destroy the indomitable spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright, who
rose from adversity to become America's greatest architect? Why was
Philip Johnson, "dean of American architecture" during the 1980s,
so haunted by the superior talent of this less-fortunate
contemporary Louis Kahn that he could barely utter his name even at
the peak of his own success? How did Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's
dictum "Less is more" give way to Robert Venturi's "Less is a
bore"?
Surveying such current urban design sagas as the reconstruction of
Ground Zero and the reunification of Berlin, Filler also trains his
sharp eye on some of the biggest names in architecture today,
puncturing more than one overinflated reputation while identifying
the true masters who are now building for the ages.
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