Search Results - "modern architecture"

Is Modern Architecture Dead? by Huxtable, Ada Louise

The Troubled State of Modern Architecture by Huxtable, Ada Louise

Architecture Moderne-Architecture Urbaine by Kopp, Anatole

Structure: the essence of architecture / by Wilson, Forrest

Table of Contents: “…Preface - Structure - Space - Man in space - Space communication - Structured man - Size in no accident - Structure - Optimization - Forces - Balance - Frustrating flexure - Columns and beams - Curves of compression - Vaults and domes - Encircled man - The jokers - Modern architecture - Walls - Trusses and space frames - Rigid frames - Slabs - prestressing -- Shells - Cables - Membrane structures - Breaking out of the box - The counter culture - The sense of structure - Process-systems - Conclusion…”

The Architecture of Britain / by Yarwood, Doreen

Table of Contents: “…The middle ages -- Britain before the coming of the Normans : AD 450-1066 -- The Norman Concept: Romanesque architecture 1066-1160 -- The Gothuc Style: ecclesiastical architecture 1150-1550 -- The Gothic Style: secular architecture 1150-1550 -- Classical Dominance -- Elizabethan and Jacobean 1550-1625 -- Inigo Jones and Wren 1620-1700 -- The English Baroque 1690-1730 -- Gibbs and the Palladians 1710-1760 -- The Classical Revival 1760-1790 -- Late Georgian and Regency 1775-1830 -- The Age of Revival -- The Nineteenth Century 1830-1900 -- Modern Architecture -- The Twentieth Century…”