CONTENTS Photographic Acknowledgements Introduction1 Nikolaus Pevsner Hector Guimard9 Sherban Cantacuzino ------------------------------------ Preface vi Acknowledgements viii Introduction - Dannis Sharp 1 Peter Behrens - P. Morton Shand 6 Auguste Perret - Peter Collins 16 Adolf Loos : Ornament and crime - Reyner Banham 26 Frank Lioyd Wright's peaceful penetration of Europe - Nikolaus Pevsner 34 Walter Gropius - Herman George Scheffauer 42 Mies van der Rohe - Peter Carter 58 Le Corbusier: 20th century living and 20th century building- if I had to teach you architecture - Le Corbusier 72 Where do we stand? - Marcel Breuer 84 Wells Coates 1893-1958 - J. M. Richards 92 Berhold Lubetkin - R. Furneaux Jordan 100 The Italian Rationalists - Bruno Zevi 118 Towards a rational aesthetic - J. M. Richards 130 The rational and the functional - Geoffrey Broadbent 142 Rationality in architecture and in design process - Henryk Skolimowski 160 Mannerism and modern architecture - Colin Rowe 174 A master plan for London - Arthur Korn and Felix J. Samuely 190 Irrational Rationalism : the Rats since 1960 - Charles Jencks 208 Art Nouveau in Italy 32 Manjredo Nicoletti Berenguer63 David Mackay Luis Domenech 71 Oriol Bohigas Wagner and the Vienna School 85 Otto Antonia Graf Odon Lechner 97 Ferenc Vamos Aladar Arkay 102 Balazs Dercsenyi Bohemian Cubism 106 Jaroslav Vokoun Mackmurdo Gleanings 111 Edward Pond The Early Works of Mackintosh116 David Walker Mackintosh and Vienna136 Eduard F. Sekler The Soft Jewellery of Art Nouveau 143 Robert Melville Liberty Metalwork 152 Shirley Bury Art Nouveau in Essex 159 John Malton Watts Chapel170 Elisabeth Beazley The Black Friar 181 Nicholas Taylor The Glass Paradise187 Reyner Banham Poelzig193 Julius Posener Nine Swallows - No Summer 203 Nikolaus Pevsner Index 209