Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright

Peter Blake

Praise for Master Builders:

“Blake has a way of opening one's eyes to architecture.”
—Thomas D. Sullivan, Washington Times

“To read it is not only to understand better a master architect, it is to understand better all architects.”
—Reyner Banham

Overview

The story of modern architecture is told here through the lives and works of three men who changed the face of the cities we live in. Le Corbusier gave to modern design a sure and brilliant sense of form; Mies brought an almost Gothic discipline of structure; and Wright heralded a new and dramatic concept of space and freedom. Through this triple focus, Peter Blake provides a perspective on the entire range of twentieth-century architecture.

About the Author

The late Peter Blake, an architect, once served as head of the architecture and design department of the Museum of Modern Art, editor in chief of Architectural Forum, and chairman of the department of architecture at Catholic University.

ISBN 10: 0-393-31504-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-31504-2
1996 / 129 photographs and 22 drawings / 430 pages / paperback