Modern Architecture

Romanticism and Reintegration

Originally published in 1929, this book demonstrates the architecture of the 1920s as the product of over a century of architectural development, despite the visual evidence that seemed to indicate that it had made a radical break with the past. This book crystallized the history and theories behind the "international style" for an American audience. The author was only 27 at the time, and this was his first book; yet it would substantially reshape the way subsequent generations would view modern architecture and its history. This is also the book that established Henry-Russell Hitchcock as a pre-eminent American historian of modern architecture.

This is also the book that established Henry-Russell Hitchcock as a pre-eminent American historian of modern architecture.