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Author : Garbis Armen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39076002687924
Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191068164
In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.
Author : Iain Jackson
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1780675801
Oops! Forgot to include a door! Every year new architecture students make the same mistakes, forgetting the same essential elements in their studio work. This handy guide provides basic tips and hints to help students make the most of their work. Advice ranges from the practical (how to orient a building on a site) to the thought-provoking (notions of taste) to just plain fun (how to dress, or not to dress, like an architect). All accompanied by the author's witty and beautiful illustrations. The Architecture Student's Survival Kit is a life-saving and entertaining resource for any first-year student or anyone thinking about studying architecture.
Author : Kongjian Yu,Mary Padua
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 1864702516
For thousands of years, people have struggled with the forces of nature to survive. The result is a landscape that reflects the balanced relationship between humans and the world around them. Generation after generation has been sustained by the knowledg
Author : Deyan Sudjic
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262369442
The story of Boris Iofan—designer of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Soviets—whose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture. What would an architect do for the chance to build the tallest building in the world? What would he sacrifice to stay alive in the midst of Stalin’s murderous purges? This is the first major publication on the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan (1891–1976), state architect to Joseph Stalin. Iofan’s story is an insight into the troubled relationship of all successful architects with power. A gifted designer and a committed Communist, Iofan became the Soviet Union’s most celebrated architect after Alexei Rykov, Lenin’s successor, persuaded him to return to Moscow from Rome with his aristocratic wife, Olga Sasso-Ruffo. Iofan was at the heart of political life in the Soviet Union and his work is key to understanding its official culture. When Stalin’s henchmen crushed the architectural avant-garde, it was Iofan who created the new national style, from the grand projects he realized—including the House on the Embankment, a megastructure of 505 homes for the Soviet elite—to even more ambitious unbuilt projects, in particular the Palace of the Soviets, a baroque Stalinist dream whose image was reproduced throughout the Soviet Union. His career took him to New York and Paris, and to the destroyed city of Stalingrad. He was a friend of Frank Lloyd Wright; a rival of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Erich Mendelsohn; and an enemy of Hitler’s architect Albert Speer, whose Nazi pavilion faced Iofan’s Soviet one at the Paris Expo in 1937. He kept silent when Stalin executed his friends, including Rykov; he also sacrificed his own talent by following the dictator’s instructions to the letter in creating the regime’s landmarks. Generously illustrated, with a wide range of previously unpublished material, this book is an exploration of architecture as an instrument of statecraft. It is an insight into the key moments of 20th-century politics and culture from a unique perspective, and the personal story of a remarkable individual who witnessed many of the most dramatic turning points of modern history.
Author : Kenneth Lancet Kaplan
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1878271830
Architects Ken Kaplan and Ted Krueger present a blunt criticism of present social and political conditions. In response to the "dogmatic gas" that they perceive as invading today's architectural ideology, they attempt to find an antidote to the "deluded blather" through architectural experimentation.
Author : Grant Hildebrand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520215052
This engaging study discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appealing--and useful for survival--from ancient times to the present. 119 photos. 6 line figures.
Author : Grace H. Kim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015064744660
A concise guide to the process from architectural education to internship and career development. It also covers issues related to obtaining a first professional job after graduation, and the various questions and problems involved in going fromeducation to practice.
Author : Richard Joseph Neutra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:367495141
Author : H. Leonard Weeder
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780741413543
Author : Richard Neutra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990580490
Richard Neutra's landmark publication Survival Through Design, in print again for the first time in decades, is a cycle of essays providing insights far ahead of their time. With a new introduction by Dr. Barbara Lamprecht and foreword by Dr. Raymond Neutra, it is richly illustrated and intended as a reference for years to come. Neutra's themes are wide-ranging and he extensively plumbs through history to develop his insights, however, the general theme of man-made environment and its impact on human physiological, neurological, emotional states over time, and the designer's potential role as mediator of these conditions, is a constant throughout Survival Through Design with ever greater relevance for the present day. Richard Neutra's landmark publication Survival Through Design, in print again for the first time in decades, is a cycle of essays providing insights far ahead of their time. With a new introduction by Dr. Barbara Lamprecht and foreword by Dr. Raymond Neutra, it is richly illustrated and intended as a reference for years to come.
Author : Tom Vanderbilt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226846958
On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten’s stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century. “A crucial and dazzling book, masterful, and for me at least, intoxicating.”—Dave Eggers “A genuinely engaging book, perhaps because [Vanderbilt] is skillful at conveying his own sense of engagement to the reader.”—Los Angeles Times “A retracing of Dr. Strangelove as ordinary life.”—Greil Marcus, Bookforum
Author : Adam Page
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526122605
Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled.
Author : Grant Hildebrand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520215054
This engaging study discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appealing--and useful for survival--from ancient times to the present. 119 photos. 6 line figures.
Author : Mirjam Wenzel
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 3775755969
