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Summary
Summary
Shattering the common presumption of modernistic homogeneity, this volume presents modern architecture designed prior to the First World War. The articles and projects are selected from the Berlin journal Architecture of the Twentieth Century, a trilingual magazine that recorded and commented on the work of leading architects in Europe and the US. This volume reduces the original magazine entries, and the stylized Eckmann type is all but unreadable, as are many of the plans. But the architectural structures themselves, photographed in b&w, are magnificent in their beauty and variety. Indexed only by place. Oversized (9 1/2 x13"). Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Library Journal Review
This lavish reprint of selections from the German periodical, The Architecture of the Century: Journal of Modern Architecture, is intriguing for several reasons. First, in its time--between 1901 and 1914--the journal documented extensively the best of European and American architecture; as such, it provides an invaluable record of many buildings and architects that have been forgotten. Second, the journal was trilingual (as is the reprint) and thus truly international in scope and impact. Finally, the examples illustrated in this volume provide a very different picture of what was considered modern in 1900: many landmark buildings and architects are missing from its pages. Although the lack of an index makes this difficult to use as a reference, as a whole it provides a revealing picture of architecture in the first decades of this century.--H. Ward Jandl, National Park Service, Washington, D.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
