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Presents 30 current projects through photos, plans and diagrams that communicate a modern language of form, helping to create and shape contemporary living spaces. A provocative plea for genuinely barrier-free building and an illustrated commentary on the DIN 18025 norms round off this new standard work.
The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions in the form of a program or manifesto. The most influential of these are collected here in chronological order from 1903 to 1963. Taken together, they constitute a subjective history of modern architecture; compared with one another, their great diversity of style reveals in many cases the basic differences of attitude and temperament that produced a corresponding divergence in architectural style.
