Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

After several pages of prologue summing up 18th century highlights--especially the rise in importance of geometry--some forty pages cover 1784-1916, focusing on the heavily fenestrated high-rises of the Chicago School and the iron and glass pavilions of Europe. The chapter spanning 1892-1925 concentrates on the many disputes over the trajectory of modernism: Nieuwe Kunst, Stile Liberty, Jugendstil, and Art Nouveau, all arguing the direction that the boom of prisons, hospitals, schools, town halls, and other institutional buildings would take. Three more time divisions follow and a concise compendium of architect biographies ends the volume. Along with an array of great pictures (par for Taschen), Gossel and Leuthauser--both active in the private sector--add a strong prose style attentive to debates among architects and the socioeconomic stage on which architects act. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1784-1916
• Prologue (p. 10)
• Of Iron Giants and Glass Virgins (p. 16)
• The Chicago School (p. 32)
• 1892-1925
• L'Entree du siecle (p. 42)
• In the Far Landscape (p. 66)
• Circle and Square (p. 78)
• The Modern Factory (p. 90)
• Creative in Concrete (p. 104)
• 1912-1939
• The Return of Art (p. 118)
• Volumetric Experiments (p. 136)
• Housing Estates (p. 152)
• Machines for Living In (p. 164)
• The International Style (p. 174)
• New Deal (p. 204)
• 1944-1971
• Case Studies (p. 216)
• Less is More (p. 224)
• Stonebound (p. 238)
• The Flying Roof (p. 248)
• Concrete Containers (p. 256)
• 1956-2000
• Learning from Las Vegas (p. 270)
• The Whites (p. 280)
• Work on Modernism (p. 292)
• The Rational South (p. 306)
• Open Structures (p. 318)
• The Post-Modern City (p. 338)
• Bellevue (p. 350)
• Concrete Poems (p. 362)
• The New Pleasure in Materials (p. 380)
• The Curvature of Space (p. 390)
• Biographies (p. 406)