Urban Design And The 20th Century Archite/ Ullmann H.F.Ullmann

With an emphasis on the indelible stamp of modernism, this large and abundantly illustrated book surveys 20th-century urban planning and architecture-the most radically innovative century of building ever seen-and considers how they reflect the era`s social upheavals. Their development is traced decade by decade, from the functional purity of the Bauhaus style in the 1920s, and the national image-building of Brazil`s new capital in the 1950s, to the inside-out construction of Paris`s Centre Pompidou and the repurposing of outmoded structures like London`s Tate Modern, transformed from a power plant to an art museum.