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