527 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.

Machine generated contents note: Two thresholds in time -- The carousel of hegemonies -- The continuity of type -- Historians versus architects, or the problem of inclusion -- 01.Sheds to rails: the dominion of steel -- The lamp of style -- The eminence of the Beaux-Arts -- Programs of modernization...

Contents note continued: 05.The challenge of the metropolis -- An explosion without precedent -- The planners' toolbox -- Town, square, and monument -- The Idyll of the garden city -- Zoning for the colonies and for Europe's metropoles -- 06.New production, new aesthetic -- The AEG model in Berlin -...

Contents note continued: 10.Return to order in Paris -- Purist forms and urban compositions -- Le Corbusier and the modern house -- Grand vessels in Paris and Geneva -- Perret and the "sovereign shelter" -- Paris Art Deco -- Mallet-Stevens, or elegant modernism -- The extent of French modernism -- 1...

Contents note continued: Modernizing cities -- Red Vienna -- The new Frankfurt -- Taut's housing developments in Berlin -- French suburbs -- Echoes overseas -- Equipping the suburbs -- 15.Internationalization, its networks and spectacles -- The journal as printed stage -- Model cities and open-air e...

Contents note continued: Industrial products: between factory and market -- The New Deal's housing reform and the European immigration -- 19.Functionalism and machine aesthetics -- Taylorism and architecture -- From ergonomics to standard dimensions -- Poetic functionalism: Chareau and Nelson -- Dyn...

Contents note continued: Air raid protection -- Constructive and destructive techniques -- Mobility and flexibility -- Architecture of military occupation -- Imagining the postwar world -- Converting to peace -- Memory and memorials -- 23.Tabula rasa to horror vacui: reconstruction and renaissance -...

Contents note continued: 26.The shape of American hegemony -- The second skyscraper age -- Mies the American -- Wright's last return -- Research out west -- Gropius and Breuer: the assimilation of the Bauhaus -- Saarinen's lyricism and Johnson's anxiety -- The solitude of Kahn -- From experimentatio...

Contents note continued: 30.After 1968: architecture for the city -- 1968, annus mirabilis -- Observing the extended city -- The shape of the city -- The input of the user -- 31.The postmodern season -- From nostalgia to play -- The "end of prohibitions" -- Retrieving urbanity's figures -- America t...

Contents note continued: Koolhaas, or fantastic realism -- Nouvei, or mystery recovered -- Herzog and de Meuron, or the principle of the collection -- Deconstructivists and rationalists -- Fragmentation and poetry in Japan -- 35.Vanishing points -- Strategic geographies -- Reinvented materials -- Su...