The Oral History of MODERN ARCHITECTURE. Interviews with Greatest Architects of Twentieth Century

1994. Large hard cover with dust cover, 320 pages. Very good condition. Over 1kg.

Looking at the development of modern architecture, this book and compact disc tell the story of the modern movement in the words of the people who created it. It comprises interviews conducted over the course of 40 years with more than 60 of the world's most prominent architects and engineers.

Interviews with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen, Oscar Niemeyer, Louis Kahn, Jose Luis Sert and I.M. Pei are prefaced by a medley of voices of 60 architects from around the world. Their articulate talks reflect the international scope of modern architecture and the extent to which many architects were influenced by modernist painting and sculpture. Accompanied by photographs of the architects and their works, these interviews mirror early modernism's social conscience, its conviction that city planning and simplified design could improve the collective well-being. The CD accompanying the volume includes excerpts from interviews with the 10 architects as well as Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto, Pier Luigi Nervi, Kenzo Tange, J.J.P. Oud and Richard Neutra.