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Author : Réjean Legault,Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Anxious modernisms
ISBN : 0920785654
Author : Robert Allen Nauman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0252028910
"Nauman argues that contrary to the technological and teleological interpretations presented by the polemicists of "international style" modernism, the academy's actual production was squarely grounded in bureaucratic and political processes. He demonstrates that selection of both the site and the design firm was the result of political maneuverings involving the U.S. military leadership."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Vikramaditya Prakash,Maristella Casciato,Daniel E. Coslett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000471632
This anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks. By both revisiting the canons of modernism and seeking to decolonize and globalize those canons, the volume explores what a genuinely "global" history of architectural modernism might begin to look like. Its chapters explore the historiography and weaknesses of modernism's normative interpretations and propose alternatives to them. The collection offers essays that interrogate transnationalism in new ways, reconsiders the agency of the subaltern and the roles played by infrastructures, materials, and global institutions in propagating a diversity of modernisms internationally. Issues such as colonial modernism, architectural pedagogy, cultural imperialism, and spirituality are engaged. With essays from both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers, this is an important reference for a new understanding of this crucial and developing topic.
Author : Duanfang Lu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136895487
This set of essays challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism's part in the transnational development of building technologies and the construction of n.
Author : Gregory Castle,Patrick Bixby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107176720
This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.
Author : Timothy Parker,Monica Penick,Vladimir Kulic
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292757257
In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar reconstruction—and it eventually won widespread acceptance. But as the limitations of conventional conceptions of modernism became apparent, modern architecture has come under increasing criticism. In this collection of essays, experienced and emerging scholars take a fresh look at postwar modern architecture by asking what it meant to be "modern," what role modern architecture played in constructing modern identities, and who sanctioned (or was sanctioned by) modernism in architecture. This volume presents focused case studies of modern architecture in three realms—political, religious, and domestic—that address our very essence as human beings. Several essays explore developments in Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia and document a modernist design culture that crossed political barriers, such as the Iron Curtain, more readily than previously imagined. Other essays investigate various efforts to reconcile the concerns of modernist architects with the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian institutions. And a final group of essays looks at postwar homebuilding in the United States and demonstrates how malleable and contested the image of the American home was in the mid-twentieth century. These inquiries show the limits of canonical views of modern architecture and reveal instead how civic institutions, ecclesiastical traditions, individual consumers, and others sought to sanction the forms and ideas of modern architecture in the service of their respective claims or desires to be modern.
Author : Maiken Umbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780199557394
A study of the distinctive brand of modernism that emerged in late 19th century Germany, illustrating through a series of analyses of key buildings and urban spaces how bourgeios modernism shaped the infrastructure of social and political life in the early twentieth century and transformed German cities.
Author : Andrew Higgott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134144020
Well illustrated, Mediating Modernism demonstrates how architectural books and journals have created the architectural culture of the twentieth century and that nowhere is this truer than in Britain.
Author : Ke Song
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000865684
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign affairs, namely buildings for foreign diplomacy in Beijing, buildings for foreign trade in Guangzhou and China’s foreign aid projects overseas. The emergence of new architecture in the early 1970s is closely associated with China’s political and diplomatic shift of the time, from a radical emphasis on ideological struggle to a dynamic balance between leftist ideology and pragmatic concerns. In this context, China’s relations with the West quickly improved, culminating with American president Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. The increasing foreign affairs brought new opportunities to Chinese architects who referenced both Western modernism and Chinese architectural traditions to create a new version of Chinese modernism. The book brings dimensions of form, politics and knowledge to the analysis of architecture, to construct an understanding of architectural design as an aesthetic, political and intellectual practice. Modernism in Late-Mao China will be an enriching and useful reference for students and scholars who are interested in the global architectural history of the twentieth century, especially Cold War modernism.
Author : Ijlal Muzaffar
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781477329665
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.
Author : Sarah Williams Goldhagen,Réjean Legault
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 026257165X
A book on architecture's other modernisms that flourished and faded in the period after World War II.
Author : Miles David Samson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317119326
The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion Shrine examines this crossroads of modernism and the archetypal, and critiques its buildings and theory. The book centers on one particularly important and omnipresent type, the pavilion - a type which was the basis of major work by Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Minoru Yamasaki, and other eminent architects. While focusing primarily on the architecture culture of the United States, it also includes the work of British, European Team X, and Scandinavian designers and writers. Making connections between formal analysis, historical context, and theory, the book continues lines of inquiry which have been pursued by Neil Levine and Anthony Vidler on representation, and by Sarah Goldhagen and Alice Friedman on modernism’s 'forbidden' elements of the honorific and the visually pleasurable. It highlights the significance of 'pavilionizing' mid-century designers such as Victor Lundy, John Johansen, Eero Saarinen, and Edward Durell Stone, and shows how frequently essentialist and traditionalist types appeared in the roadside vernacular of drive-in restaurants, gas stations, furniture and car showrooms, branch banks, and motels. The book ties together the threads in mid-century architectural theory that addressed aspects of type, 'essential' structure, and primal 'humanistic' aspects of environment-making and discusses how these concerns outlived the mid-century moment, and in the designs and writings of Aldo Rossi and others they paved the way for Post-Modernism.
Author : Sarah Williams Goldhagen,Sarah Goldhagen Williams,Louis I. Kahn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300077866
She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world.".
Author : Cristiana Bartolomei,Alfonso Ippolito,Simone Helena Tanoue Vizioli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1385 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030762391
The book investigates the theme of Modernism (1920-1960 and its epigones) as an integral part of tangible and intangible cultural heritage which contains the result of a whole range of disciplines whose aim is to identify, document and preserve the memory of the past and the value of the future. Including several chapters, it contains research results relating to cultural heritage, more specifically Modernism, and current digital technologies. This makes it possible to record and evaluate the changes that both undergo: the first one, from a material point of view, the second one from the research point of view, which integrates the traditional approach with an innovative one. The purpose of the publication is to show the most recent studies on the modernist lexicon 100 years after its birth, moving through different fields of cultural heritage: from different forms of art to architecture, from design to engineering, from literature to history, representation and restoration. The book appeals to scholars and professionals who are involved in the process of understanding, reading and comprehension the transformation that the places have undergone within the period under examination. It will certainly foster the international exchange of knowledge that characterized Modernism
Author : Sandy Isenstadt,Kishwar Rizvi
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780295800301
This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's new materials, methods, and motives. Architecture, as physical infrastructure and as symbolic expression, provides an exceptional window onto the powerful forces that shaped the modern Middle East and that continue to dominate it today. Experts in this volume demonstrate the political dimensions of both creating the built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it. In revealing the tensions between achieving both international relevance and regional meaning, Modernism in the Middle East affords a dynamic view of the ongoing confrontations of deep traditions with rapid modernization. Political and cultural historians, as well as architects and urban planners, will find fresh material here on a range of diverse practices.