This is a book about architecture, which is to say, a book about buildings: in particular, buildings conceived and constructed from a perspective that I call "the modern impulse." By the modern impulse, I mean a set of principles that has animated the long history of architectural modernism and continues to inform the best buildings of our time. Although we may fail to realize them in practice, these principles represent the design imperatives appropriate to the age we live in and are therefore worth striving to fulfill.

introduction

acknowledgments

by peter I. gluck

the modern impulse

by peter I. gluck

modern continuities

by joseph giovannini

history

oeach house 1

beach house 2

sheltered house

centered nouse

facetea nouse

staggered house

cluster housing

modular housing system

museum of modern art exhibition

hillside hotel      

waterfront resort

medical center

farmhouse renovation

two-sided house

three-gable house

house for music

jewelry boutique

vault house

corporate headouarters

high rise apartment

university business school

suburban church

suburban synagogue

first composite nouse

early learning center

featured works

adding to the masters

01 mies house addition 

02 usonian house addition

country houses

03 farmhouse with lap pool

04 linear house

05 bridge house 

composite houses

06 lake house with court

07 double house

08 bar house

09 floating box house

spec houses

10 cube house     

11 zinc house

12 affordable housing   

special uses

13 scholar's library

14 inverted outbuilding  

urban works

15 corner house

16 charter school

17 social services center

documentation

featured works drawings and models

construction

floating box house case study

work in progress

urban development

high-tech offices

community center

synagogue school    

harlem school

house in historic district

glass veil house

house on the bluff 

lakeside retreat

pool pavilion

tower house

urban condo

urban tower

play structure

appendices

firm profile

list of selected projects

bibliography

credits  

copyright