Joedicke devotes his Introduction to a survey of styles since 1917, giving an entirely fresh picture and interpretation of architectue in the thirties and forties. Since architecture of the fifties is dominated by such modern masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier, Joedicke devotes a good part of his book to a discussion of their work and that of ... the so-called International School. In the sixties, architecture is marked by a movement away from the International School as illustrated by ... architects in such ... countries as Japan and Great Britain ... Joedicke shows the connections between such advanced concepts and the late work of such architects as Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Frei Otto, and Egon Eiermann ...