Introduction -- -- 1. Rotating L-Shapes -- Schindler Chace House, Rudolph Schindler 1922 -- 2. Manipulating Volumes -- Bauhaus Master Houses, Walter Gropius 1926 -- 3. Sliding Planes -- Barcelona Pavilion, Mies Van Der Rohe 1929 -- 4. Shifting Space -- Lovell Beach House, Rudolph Schindler 1929 -- 5. Moving Perspectives -- Villa Savoy, Le Corbusier 1931 -- 6. Compressing Horizontals -- Jacobs House, Frank Lloyd Wright 1936 -- 7. Expanding Volumes -- Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright 1937 -- 8. Extending Rectangles -- Kaufmann House, Richard Neutra 1947 -- 9. Splitting Zones -- Eames House, Charles and Ray Eames 1949 -- 10. Offsetting Interior/Exterior -- Glass House, Philip Johnson 1949 -- 11. Layering Planes -- Farnsworth House, Mies Van Der Rohe 1951 -- 12. Undulating Forms -- House of Canoas, Oscar Niemeyer 1951 -- 13. Manipulating Light -- Ronchamp, Le Corbusier 1955 -- 14. Interlocking Cubes -- Trenton Bath House, Louis Kahn 1955 -- 15. Connecting Forms -- Miller House, Eero Saarinen 1957 -- 16. Lengthening Views -- Stahl House, Pierre Koenig 1960 -- 17. Overlapping Circles -- Pavilion for Pre-Columbian Art, Philip Johnson 1963 -- 18. Rotating Blocks -- Fisher House, Louis Kahn 1967 -- 19. Embedding Components -- Koshino House, Tadao Ando 1984 -- 20. Clustering Objects -- Winton Guest House, Frank Gehry 1987 -- 21. Engaging Procession -- Church on the Water, Tadao Ando 1988 -- 22. Lifting Elements -- Maison Bordeaux, Rem Koolhaas 1998 -- 23. Branching Masses -- Y House, Steven Holl 1999 -- 24. Stacking Shapes -- Tokyo Apartment House, Sou Fujimoto 2006 -- 25. Nesting Rectangles -- House N, Sou Fujimoto 2008 -- -- Bibliography -- Index

Designed to appeal to visual thinkers, 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture explores the fundamental ideas behind architectural design, through easy-to-follow sketches, drawings and succinct explanations. Twenty-five concepts - each of which are key to architectural design thinking - are accessibly explained by examining twenty-five different masterworks of modern architecture. For example, the concept of `movement' in architectural design is explained through a close look at a Le Corbusier building; `transparency' is examined in Philip Johnson's seminal Glass House; `asymmetry' is understood through the work of Zaha Hadid - and so on, through twenty-five core concepts and twenty-five of the most significant buildings of the modern era. Taking a highly-visual approach, this simple yet visually-powerful guide is an essential companion in the design studio and to introductory courses in modern architecture, interior architecture, and interior design. Understanding these concepts will provide a key to demystifying the greatest works in modern architectural history, inspire new ways to think about new design projects, and reveal how drawing and sketching are used as tools for the visual analysis of architecture.