The Details of Modern Architecture
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Details of Modern Architecture
By (Author) Edward R Ford
MIT Press Ltd
MIT Press
21st November 2003
21st November 2003
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
724
Physical Properties
Paperback
451
Width 279mm, Height 279mm, Spine 19mm
1560g
Description
How did the great architects of the 20th century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building This is a crucial question that students of architecture confront. This volume provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of architecture, and provides not one answer but many. Ford examines Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House and Fallingwater and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, as well as buildings by McKim, Mead & White, Lutyens, Mies van der Rohe and Schindler from a point of view that acknowledges the importance of tradition, precendent, style and ideology in architectural construction. He discusses critical details from a technical and contextual standpoint, considering how they perform, how they add to or detract from the building as whole and how some have persisted and been adapted through time.
Reviews
An exceptional book.
-- Witold Rybczynski * New York Review of Books *Author Bio
Edward R. Ford is a practicing architect in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia.
