384 pages
Purchase Details
Paperback, 0-500-20234-6
Publication date: 1996
Readership: for anyone interested in today's built environment

The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture is a wide ranging and authoritative coverage of the whole spectrum of architecture and urban planning in the 20th century, and of leading architects and engineers the world over. It is fully cross-referenced and indexed, with key biographical references for further reading.

It contains:

Entries by such distinguished authorities as Reyner Banham, Robin Middleton and Joseph Rykwert
Biographies of the most significant architects
Surveys of the progress of developments in individual countries
Overviews of the impact and importance of all the influential movements and schools, from the Bauhaus to New Brutalism and beyond, up to, and including Post-Modernism