The Master Builders

Peter Blake

Overview

Literate essays on the masters of modern architecture: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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.

Acclaim

"Mr. Blake has a way of opening one's eyes to architecture."

--Thomas D. Sullivan, Washington Times

About the Author

Peter Blake, an architect, is the former 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. He has written for many professional and popular magazines and has taught and lectured in the United States and abroad.

ISBN: 0-393-31504-5
1996
448 pages, 129 photographs and 22 drawings, paper