between the wars - The ideal community: alternatives to the industrial city - The international style, the individual talent and the myth of functionalism - The image and idea of Le Corbusier's Villa savoye at Poissy - The continuity of older traditions - Nature and the machine: Mies Van Der Rohe, Wright and Le Corbusier in the 1930s - The spread of modern architecture to Britain and Scandinavia - Totalitarian critiques of the modern movement - International, national, regional: the diversity of a new tradition - Modern architecture in the U.S.A.: immigration and consolidation - Form and meaning in the late works of Le Corbusier - The Unit©♭ d'habitation at Marseilles as a collective housing prototype - Alvar Aalto and Scandinavian developments - Disjunctions and continuities in the Europe of the 1950s - The process of absorption: Latin America, Australia, Japan - On monuments and monumentality: Louis I. Responses to mechanization: the Deutscher Werkbund and futurism - The architectural system of Frank Lloyd Wright - National myths and classical transformations - Cubism, de Stijl and new conceptions of space - Le Corbusier's quest for ideal form - Walter Gropius, German expressionism and the Bauhaus - Architecture and revolution in Russia - Skyscraper and suburb: the U.S.A. The idea of a modern architecture in the nineteenth century - Industrialization and the city: the skyscraper as type and symbol - The search for new forms and the problem of ornament - Rationalism, the engineering tradition and reinforced concrete - Arts and crafts ideals in Britain and the U.S.A.
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