An Introduction to Modern Architecture
Penguin Books | 1962 | English | 244 pages | PDF | 24 MB

An Introduction to Modern Architecture, sets out to explain what 'modern' architecture is all about. In these days, when the need for new buildings is so great and so many building plans are being made, it is specially important that everyone should have an understanding of the principles of architecture, and the author, disapproving of the treatment of architecture as a professional mystery or merely a matter of correct taste, asks (and tries to answer) the simple question: 'Conventions and habits apart, what sort of architecture does our time really require?'