PEVSNER, NIKOLAUS
"No one but Dr Pevsner could have packed so much information into so compact a work or illustrated it more effectively."-The Times Literary Supplement
The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, with two contrasting styles emerging-Art Nouveau and the International Style. Professor Pevsner brings a new clarity to an often confusing period, tracing-with the aid of nearly two hundred carefully chosen illustrations-the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.