In Search of Modern Architecture

Download or read book In Search of Modern Architecture written by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and published by New York : Architectural History Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tribute contains 18 papers on Henry-Russell Hitchcock and his lasting influence on architects practicing during the last decades, as well as on the critics and historians who have been following and at times leading the architects. They are arranged chronologically in three main areas of Hitchcock's interest: "The Age of Romanticism -- Rationalism, Revivalism and Eclecticism 1740-1900"; "American Architecture to 1900: Romanticism and Reintegration"; and "Twentieth Century Architecture -- The New Tradition and the New Pioneers."