The details of modern architecture

How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that every student of architecture must confront.

Partial contents: V. 1. H.H. Richardson, Ralph Adams Cram, and the Gothic revival -- McKim, Mead & White and classical rationalism -- Edwin Lutyens and the language of classicism -- Arts and crafts movement: the Greene brothers and their English contemporaries -- Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park -- Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos: Viennese rationalism -- Le Corbusier: The classic villas -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the steel frame -- Residential construction in America: Rudolf Schindler, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer -- Frank Lloyd Wright: The Usonian period. v. 2. Eliel Saarinen in Detroit: 1926-1940 -- Conversion of Erik Gunnar Asplund: 1930-1940 -- Richard Neutra and the architecture of surface: 1933-1952 -- Alvar Aalto nd Marcel Breuer: Light, industrialization and the vernacular, 1928-1963 -- Le Corbusier after 1928: 1928-1965 -- Saarinen, Eames, Fuller and the case study houses: 1940-1959 --Eero Saarinen after 1945: 1945-1962 -- Louis Kahn, Sigurd Lewerentz and the new brutalism: 1954-1974 -- Venturis, Graves, Scarpa and the layers of history: 1963-1984 -- High tech, deconstruction, and the present day: 1972-1988.