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When modern architecture was first practiced, it was an avant-garde movement with moral, philosophical, and aesthetic underpinnings. Immediately after World War I, pioneering modernist architects sought to develop a completely new style appropriate for a new post-war social and economic order, focused on meeting the needs of the middle and working classes. They rejected the architectural practice of the academic refinement of historical styles which served the rapidly declining aristocratic order. The approach of the Modernist architects was to reduce buildings to pure forms, removing historical references and ornament in favor of functional details. Buildings displayed their functional and structural elements, exposing steel beams and concrete surfaces instead of hiding them behind decorative forms. Architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright developed organic architecture, in which the form was defined by its environment and purpose, with an aim to promote harmony between human habitation and the natural world with prime examples being Robie House and Fallingwater.

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With over 4000 images representing different styles and elements of aesthetics arranged in chronological order, this edition of the book brings a complete summary of diverse key style features. Each chapter gives the synopsis of major components specific to that era with a brief introduction. Covering varied aspects of building, some of which are doors, windows, staircases to aesthetical components such as moldings and embellishments are elaborated appropriately. From past to present, this book displays detailed case studies of building styles portrayed in a system of color-coded tabs. Additional information on biographies, restoration and maintenance make it an ideal encyclopedia of every architectural style. 2ff7e9595c