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An Introduction to Modern Architecture, which was first published in 1940, sets out to explain what modern architecture is all about.
In these days, when preparations are being made for an immense building program to begin as soon as capital expenditure is permissible, it is specially important that everyone should have an understanding of the principles of architecture, and the author, disapproving of the treatment of architecture as a professional mystery or merely a matter of correct taste, asks and tries to answer the simple question - Conventions and habits apart, what sort of architecture does our time really require?
With the help of 44 gravure illustrations and numerous line drawings, he explains how modern buildings come to look as they do, discussing the technical practices and the changing needs and ideals on which modern architects work is based.
Also, believing that architecture can only be explained as part of a continous growth, he shows modern architecture against the background out of which it grew, giving an outline history of the struggle to produced a sane architecture which has been going on throughout the past hundred years.
CONDITION: Soft Cover, Pelican books paperback, 156 pages, back cover cracked, 1948 reprint - Great Britain
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