Architectural Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Examines key texts in the history of architecture since the 1800s. Contrasts texts by architects with their actual work and places them into the social, political, and art historical context of their time. Texts by Schinkel, Semper, Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Otto Wagner, Le Corbusiser, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Robert Venturi, and others.