20th C architecture : the structures that shaped the century / by Jonathan Glancey

Woodstock, N. Y. : Overlook Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 400 pages; Description: 400 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Includes index. Subjects: Architecture, Modern --20th century --Architecture, Postmodern --Deconstructivism (Architecture). Summary: Twentieth-Century Architecture covers the entire spectrum of modern architecture. Every major movement of the craft is represented along with every major architect of the twentieth century, including Sir Edwin Lutyens, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Richard Rogers, Berthold Lubetikin, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, Alvar Aalto, Norman Foster, Antoni Gaudi and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Architecture illustrates the history of the twentieth century and the buildings and structures to be found in this book symbolize the diversity and scope of twentieth-century life, covering the political, industrial, environmental and traditional influences on modern building. Included within are landmarks as diverse as the Chrysler Building, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, Le Corbusier's Unite de Habitation, London's Lloyd's Building and the Sydney Opera House.