Modern Architecture

The Basics

Graham Livesey

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040229330
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century. Broad definitions of modernity and postmodernity introduce the book, which comprises 24 short thematic chapters looking at the concepts behind the development of modern and postmodern architecture. These include major historical movements, key figures, and evolving building typologies. There is also an emphasis on the changing city during the 19th and 20th centuries. Approaches to representation and its impacts on architecture are studied, along with the changing global role of architecture as cultural expression. The book introduces new topics, including gender, race, postcolonialism, and indigeneity. An undaunting, contemporary, and inclusive account of modern architectural history, this is a must-read for all students of architecture as well as those outside the discipline approaching the subject for the first time.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Modernism and Postmodernism
• 2 Revolution and Republicanism
• 3 Picturesque and Sublime
• 4 Technology and Materials
• 5 Functionalism and Rationalism
• 6 Style and Nationalism
• 7 Urbanization and Landscape
• 8 Arts and Crafts
• 9 Ornament and Structure
• 10 Space and Form
• 11 Avant-Garde and Representation
• 12 Internationalism and Universalism
• 13 Machines and Systems
• 14 Authoritarianism and Monumentality
• 15 Vernacular and Tradition
• 16 Education and Professionalism
• 17 Gender and Discrimination
• 18 History and Order
• 19 Regionalism and Tectonics
• 20 Place and Invention
• 21 Theory and Practice
• 22 Postcolonialism and Hybridity
• 23 Race and Resistance
• 24 Environmentalism and Indigeneity
• Index