The Details of Modern Architecture

Ford examines Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House and Fallingwater and Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, as well as buildings by McKim, Mead & White, Lutyens, Mies van der Rohe and Schindler from a point of view that acknowledges the importance of tradition, precendent, style and ideology in architectural construction. He discusses critical details from a technical and contextual standpoint, considering how they perform, how they add to or detract from the building as whole and how some have persisted and been adapted through time.