How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that every student of architecture must confront.
Ford is a practicing architect in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia..
About the Author: Edward R.
He discusses critical Details from a technical and contextual standpoint, considering how they perform how they add to or detract from the building as a whole, and how some have persisted and been adapted through time.
Ford examines Frank Lloyd Wright\'s Robie House and Fallingwater Le Corbusier\'s Villa Savoye, and buildings by Mc Kim, Mead & White, Lutyens, Mies van der Rohe, and Schindler from a point of view that acknowledges the importance of tradition, precedent, style, and ideology in architectural construction.
He looks at the source of each architect\'s ideas, the translation of those ideas into practice, and the success or failure of the technical execution.
Covering the period 1890-1932, Ford focuses on various recognized masters, explaining the detailing and construction techniques that distort, camouflage, or enhance a building.
Providing a valuable collective resource, they present the Details of notable architectural works drawn in similar styles and formats, allowing comparisons between works of different scales, periods, and styles.
The more than 500 illustrations are a major contribution in their own right.
The Details of Modern Architecture, the first comprehensive analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of Details in the development of architecture, provides not one answer but many.
How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that every student of architecture must confront
