William Morris's News from Nawhere and H. G. Wells's WhentheSleeper Wakes, published in 1890 and 1899 respectively,depict afuture society - a socialist utopia in the former case,a capitalistdystopia in the latter - encountered by the novels'protagonistsafter a long period of sleep. If the contemporaryinhabitants of theplanet had awakened in the early twenty-firstcentury, they wouldhave been at a loss to recognize not justthe cities constellatingthe world's surface, but also the build-ings making them up. Bothcities and buildings have under-gone fundamentaltransformations,more so than at any timein the past. Likewise, the quantity ofbuilding stock producedsince 1900 has surpassed the sum total ofthat which existedin all previous human history.Not only did thepopulation of urban areas exceed that of thecountryside for thefirst time shortly after the year 2000, butalso the very forms ofhuman presence on the face of the earthreflected tharoughgoingchanges. In the nineteenth century, thetrain station and departmentstore joined the hause, palace,and temple in the existing inventoryof building types. In thetwentieth century, office and apartmenttowers, large housingdevelopments, vast hangars enclosing factoriesand shoppingcenters, and a wide variety of infrastructures rangingfromdams to airports followed. Contradicting the BritishhistorianNikolaus Pevsner, who famously wrote that "a bicycle shedisa building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture," . 1themost prosaic programs came to be considered objectsworthy ofaesthetic altention. This unprecedented surge in con-struction wasmeager compensation for a previously unim-aginable level ofdestructian ot natural resources and culturaltreasures, the effectsot industrialization, urbanization, and war.
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From the Publisher. Truly far-ranging, both conceptually and geographically, The Future of Architecture Since 1889 is a rich, compelling history that will shape future thinking about this period for years to come. Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today's most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an authoritative and compelling account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from industrialization through computerization, and linking architecture to developments in art, technology, urbanism and critical theory. Encompassing both well-known masters and previously neglected but significant architects, this book also reflects Cohen's deep knowledge of architecture across the globe, and in places such Eastern Europe and colonial Africa and South America that have rarely been included in histories of this period. It is richly illustrated not only with buildings, projects and plans, but also with publications, portraits, paintings, diagrams, film stills, and exhibitions, showing the immense diversity of architectural thought and production throughout the twentieth century. 2ff7e9595c
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