A major showdown between a leading contemporary architect and a historian, exploring 20th-century architecture in a seven-round match. Revised new edition of GA JAPAN's special issue "Verifying 20th-Century Modern Architecture: ○ and ×" With added footnotes and index, it's even easier to understand! A 20th-century architectural history as interesting as a novel is here! Newly includes a special edition "Aftermath" by Arata Isozaki at the end. Chapter 1: From Neoclassicism to the Birth of Modernism Chapter 2: Technology and Its Meaning Chapter 3: Houses That Remain in History Chapter 4: Avant-garde or Establishment? Chapter 5: Before and After the Great War Chapter 6: North and South America, Europe: Their Respective Developments Chapter 7: The Last Masters, and Japan Aftermath: Arata Isozaki