Main entry:

Pawley, Martin.

Title & Author:

20th century architecture : a reader's guide / Martin Pawley.

Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Architectural Press, 2000.

Description:

ix, 195 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.
Books of the Century -- Pioneers -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Adolf Loos -- Le Corbusier -- Mies van der Rohe -- Berthold Lubetkin -- Anthony Bertram -- Buckminster Fuller -- Revivalists -- Prince Charles -- The Krier brothers -- Roger Scruton -- David Pearce -- The Country House Crowd -- Dictators -- The Arts of the Third Reich -- Was Mies a Nazi? -- Architecture and politics in Germany -- Exorcising Adolf -- Stars -- Bruce Goff -- Paul Nelson -- Peter Eisenman -- Ralph Erskine -- Peter Rice -- Richard Rogers -- Frank Gehry -- Leon Krier -- Christo -- Victor Papanek -- Rem Koolhaas -- Renzo Piano -- Reyner Banham -- Michael Hopkins -- Victims -- The noted and the ignored -- Albert Speer -- Lord Holford -- Paul Shepheard -- Tower blocks -- The romance of demolition -- Competitions -- Nihilism -- Lionel Breet -- American influences -- Alphabet soup -- Schools of architecture -- The education of the architect -- The jumping universe -- Buildings -- The United Nations -- Houses at Pessac -- Wright details -- Air-conditioning -- Prefabrication -- Mobile homes -- Tall buildings -- Prisons -- Architecture and order -- Buildings and power -- 'High-Tech' -- Supersheds -- Lightness -- Solar architecture -- Glass architecture -- Green architecture -- Cities -- The 100 mile city -- Cities assembled -- Great cities of history -- Crow's feat -- Blast effects on buildings -- City of quartz -- New age cities -- Cities for a small planet -- City centre to shopping mall -- TV Programmes -- Roger Graef.

Summary:

In his famously controversial style - Martin Pawley reviews a selection of books on the architecture of the 20th century. Books that we should have read, and indeed would have read - if only we'd had the time. Pawley digests and critiques them for us with an agility that has kept the readers of his newspaper and magazine columns provoked and amused for several decades. He provides us with both ammunition and armour - encouraging us to fight off the soporific PR-led commentary of today and to rekindle the passion of the architectural debate. Martin Pawley is an award-winning writer. He has written many books on architecture for UK and US based publishers and writes a regular column for national and international architectural magazines. Throughout his career he has reviewed books for The Guardian, The Observer, The London Review of Books, The Architects' Journal, Design Book Review, Blueprint, Architectural Design, Building, World Architecture, Architecture Review, Designer and The RIBA Journal many of which are published here. Gain knowledge on all the major books on 20th century architecture, by reading just one Hear the opinions of Pawley, and learn about the debates, on the development of architectural theory in the 20th century.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0750646357 (alk. paper)
9780750646352 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Book reviews.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Bibliography.
Architecture 20e siècle Recensions de livres.
Architecture 20e siècle Bibliographie.
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
USA

Form/genre:

Book reviews (document genre)
Bibliographies.
Book reviews
Comptes rendus de livres.

Added entries:

Twentieth century architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212282
Call No.: NA680 .P3 2000
Status: Available