An invaluable guide to lives and work of Frank Gehry, Atoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Maya Lin, and other important figures of 20th and 21st century architecture.
Makers of Modern Architecture: Volume Three
Provisional Table of Contents
1. Frederick Law Olmsted
2. Antoni Gaudí
3. Frank Lloyd Wright
4. Edwin Lutyens
5. Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte
6. Jan Duiker
7. Albert Speer/Gerdy Troost
8. The Norwegian Functionalists
9. The Levitt Brothers
10. Louis Kahn
11. Lina Bo Bardi
12. The New Brutalists
13. Paul Rudolph
14. Frei Otto
15. Frank Gehry
16. Renzo Piano
Martin Filler was born in 1948 and received degrees in art history from Columbia. His writings have been published in more than thirty-five journals, magazines, and newspapers in the US, Europe, and Japan. Since 1985 his essays on modern architecture have appeared regularly in The New York Review of Books. His first collection of those pieces, Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), was issued in Spanish as La arquitectura moderna y sus creadores (2012), followed by Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume 2 (2013). Filler was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He and his wife, the architectural historian Rosemarie Haag Bletter, were guest curators of the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition "High Styles- Twentieth Century American Design" (1985) and wrote the documentary films Beyond Utopia (1983), Arata Isozaki (1985), and Stirling (1987). They live in New York and Southampton.
"Martin Filler's Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III,
from Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin, is as moving as the other two
editions in the series: not only are his portraits individualized,
but their particularities are given broad and vast depth in
history….Filler has a literate writing style [that]…could be better
suited for creative literature because of the vivid word picture he
draws of individuals, their works, and the generalized historical
fabrics in which they belong….Filler carefully weighs the
religious, social, personal, aesthetic, and political strains of
his subjects, so we get a crammed-full picture, a three-dimensional
image." —Suzanne Frank, The Architects Newspaper
"Filler’s…concern is to show why these subjects remain of perennial
interest to us—or, in some cases, do not. There is a great deal of
pleasantly opinionated revisionism…Those who are interested in the
way that architecture reveals the vagaries of the human heart will
not be disappointed by this acerbic, occasionally poignant
collection." —Michael J. Lewis, Architectural Record
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