New aesthetic potential was released at the end of the eighteenth century inthe wake of the Enlightenment. The natural sciences were declared a recog-nized means of explaining the world, and geometric axioms competed withanatomic rules of proportion.

1773-1916 Preporina for Modernism in the Industrial Aqe

Prologue

Of Iron Giants and Glass Virgins

The Chicago School

1884-1925 Setting Off to Unknown Realms

L'Entree du Siecle

In the For Landscape

Circle and Square

The Modern Factory

Creative in Concrete

1912-1941 The Turbulence and Upsurge of Modernism

The Return of Art

Volumetric Experiments

Housing Estates

Machines for Living In

The International Style

The New Deal

1944-1971 An Art Form in its Prime

Case Studies

Less is More

Stonebound

The Flying Roof

Bubbles

Concrete Containers

1947-2004 Criticizing the Establishment

Learning from Las Vegas

The Whites

Work on Modernism

The Rational South

Open Structures

The Post-Modern City

Bellevue

Concrete Poems

The New Pleasure in Materials

The Curvature of Space

Biographies

Index