Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry

by Martin Filler

Book Overview

Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590172272
• ISBN13: 9781590172278
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Mature Critic at the Top of His Game

Martin Filler has been a contributor to The New York Review of Books for the last twenty years. During that time, he produced a series of remarkable essays on the "Giants" of Modern Architecture. "Makers of Modern Architecture" is a compilation of seventeen of those essays. Filler starts with the first Modernists (Sullivan, Wright, Mies, Corbusier) and then moves on to the second (Eames,Kahn, Johnson) and third generation (Gehry, Meier, Foster and Piano) of Modernist architects. Martin Filler is one of the nation's best architectural critics and this book finds him at the top of his form. With great style, he praises the noteworthy and pillories the cynical. There is an erudition and honesty to his writing that is at times, thrilling. His chapters on Phillip Johnson's opportunism and the political wrangling over the Twin Tower re-construction are especially good. "Makers of Modern Architecture" is criticism at its finest. Highly recommended.