Modern architecture : representation & reality /
Neil Levine.
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.
- x, 364 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Castle Howard and the subject matter of history -- The appearance of truth and the truth of appearance in Laugier's primitive hut -- From imitation to abstraction in the neoclassicism of Boullée, Soane, and Schinkel -- Pugin, Labrouste, and the new realism of decorated construction -- Essays in the erosion of representation by Viollet-Le-Duc and Louis Sullivan -- Representation without history in the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright -- The reemergence of representation out of abstraction in Mies van der Rohe -- The aesthetic of the unfinished and the example of Louis Kahn.