This work sets out to describe the aesthetic qualities intrinsic to the work of such architects as Le Corbusier, Oud, Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. The authors observed the distinguishing features that made possible a definition of a new "style": emphasis on volume as opposed to mass; regularity as opposed to symmetry; and dependence on the intrinsic elegance of materials as opposed to applied decoration. First published in 1932 to coincide with an architectural exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, this reissue contains a new foreword by Philip Johnson reflecting on the impact of these principles over 60 years after they were first set forth.
- ISBN10 0393036510
- ISBN13 9780393036510
- Publish Date 18 October 1995 (first published 17 June 1966)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 10 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English