Part I. Cultural developments and predisposing techniques 1750-1939 : Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical architecture 1750-1900 -- Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800-1909 -- Technical transformations: structural engineering 1775-1939 -- Part II. A critical history 1836-1967 : News from nowhere: England 1836-1967 -- Adler and Sullivan: the Auditorium and the high rise 1886-95 -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the myth of the Prairie 1890-1916 -- Structural rationalism and the influence of Viollet-le-Duc: Gaudí, Horta, Guimard and Berlage 1880-1910 -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School 1896-1916 -- The sacred spring: Wagner, Olbrich and Hoffmann 1886-1912 -- Antonio Sant'Elia and Futurist architecture 1909-14 -- Adolf Loos and the crisis of culture 1896-1931 -- Henry van de Velde and the abstraction of empathy 1895-1914 -- Tony Garnier and the Industrial City 1899-1918 -- Auguste Perret: the evolution of Classical Rationalism 1899-1925 -- The Deutsche Werkbund 1898-1927 -- The glass chain: European architectural Expressionism 1910-25 -- The Bauhaus: the evolution of an idea 1919-32 -- The New Objectivity: Germany, Holland and Switzerland 1923-33 -- De Stijl: the evolution and dissolution of Neo Plasticism 1917-31 -- Le Corbusier and the Esprit Nouveau 1907-31 -- Mies van der Rohe and the significance of fact 1921-33 -- The New Collectivity: art and architecture in the Soviet Union 1918-32 -- Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse 1928-46 -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the disappearing city 1929-63 -- Alvar Aalto and the Nordic tradition: National Rationalism and the Doricist sensibility 1895-1957 -- Giuseppe Terragni and the architecture Italian Rationalism 1926-43 -- Architecture and the state: ideology and representation 1914-43 -- Le Corbusier and the monoumentalization of the vernacular 1930-60 -- Mies van der Rohe and monumentalization of technique 1933-67 -- The eclipse of the New Deal: Buckminster Fuller, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn 1934-64 -- Part III. Critical assessment and extension into the present 1925-91 : The International Style: theme and variation 1925-65 -- New Brutalism and the architecture of the welfare state: England 1949-59 -- The vicissitudes of ideology: CIAM and Team X, critique and counter-critique 1928-68 -- Place, production and scenography: international theory and practice since 1962 -- Critical Regionalism: modern architecture and cultural identity -- World architecture and reflective practice -- Architecture in the age of globalization: topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality, habitat and civic form 1975-2007
