Four great makers of modern architecture: Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Wright. The verbatim record of a symposium held at the School of Architecture, Columbia University, March-May, 1961.

Contributor Columbia University. School of Architecture.

Imprint:New York : Da Capo Press, 1970.

Descriptionvii, 296 p. : illus., plans ; 24 cm.

Note:Reprint of the 1963 ed.

Note:Conformity, chaos, and continuity / Charles R. Colbert - The architect and the aspirations of his day / Jacques Barzun - Architecture and the avant garde / James Marston Fitch - The continuity of idea and form / Alden Dow - FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: The fine arts and Frank Lloyd Wright / Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. - Frank Lloyd Wright and the tall building / Grant Manson - The social implications of the skyscraper / Henry S. Churchill - Broadacre City: Wright's utopia reconsidered / George R. Collins - The domestic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright / Norris Smith - Wright and the spirit of democracy / James Marston Fitch - MIES VAN DER ROHE: A conversation Mies / Peter Blake - Mies Van Der Rohe at I.I.T. / Henry T. Heald - A personal testament / Philip Johnson - Mies, the educator / Daniel Brenner - Has 'Less is More' become 'Less is nothing'? / Sybil Moholy-Nagy - Habitats for American cosmopolites / Charles Genther - Miesian space concept in domestic architecture / Howard Dearstyne - The urban space concepts of Mies Van Der Rohe / Jacques Brownson - People, mass production and the Miesian universal / Peter Blake - Mies Van Der Rohe and the Platonic verities / James Marston Fitch - LE CORBUSIER: Convocation address / Le Corbusier - A talk to students / Le Corbusier - Le Corbusier and the image of man / José Luis Sert - The Corbusian trinity / James J. Sweeney - The influences of Le COrbusier / Harry A. Anthony - Potentials of the skyscraper-studded park / Harry A. Anthony - Le Corbusier's modulor / Rudolf Wittkower - Villa, townhouse, and unite: the utopian spectrum / Ernesto Rogers - WALTER GROPIUS: Unity in diversity / Walter Gropius - The Bauhaus in Weimar / Wolf von Eckardt - The influence of the Bauhaus / Esmond Shaw - Walter Gropius and the arts / Thomas H. Creighton - Let us not make shapes: let us solve problems / Serge Chermayeff - Lessons of the Bauhaus for the second machine age / Gerhardt M. Kallman - New perspectives for the second machine age / Gerhardt M. Kallman.

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