Modern Architecture

This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement from Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the often contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity, and tradition.

Oxford History of Art (共42冊), 這套叢書還有 《Art in Europe 1700-1830》,《Aegean Art and Architecture (Oxford History of Art)》,《Sculpture 1900-1945 (Oxford History of Art)》,《Indian Art (Oxford History of Art)》,《The Art of Art History》 等。