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Author : Alison Smithson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040563432
Ed: University of Sheffield, 300 illustrations in color & b/w, New essays.
Author : Alison Margaret Smithson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1337310464
Author : Hilton Judin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000367119
This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative and policing mechanisms of the regime. It considers how this process reflected the usurpation of a regional modernism and looks to contribute to wider discourses on international postwar modernism in architecture. Buildings in Pretoria that came to embody ambitions of the apartheid state for industrialisation and progress serve as case studies. These were widely acclaimed projects that embodied for apartheid officials the pursuit of modernisation but carried latent apprehensions of Afrikaners about their growing economic prospects and cultural estrangement in Africa. It is a less known and marginal story due to the dearth of material and documents buried in archives and untranslated documents. Many of the documents, drawings and photographs in the book are unpublished and include classified material and photographs from the National Nuclear Research Centre, negatives of 1960s from Pretoria News and documents and pamphlets from Afrikaner Broederbond archives. State architecture became the most iconic public manifestation of an evolving expression of white cultural identity as a new generation of architects in Pretoria took up the challenge of finding form to their prospects and beliefs. It was an opportunistic faith in Afrikaners who urgently needed to entrench their vulnerable and contested position on the African continent. The shift from provincial town to apartheid capital was swift and relentless. Little was left to stand in the way of the ambitions and aim of the state as people were uprooted and forcibly relocated, structures torn down and block upon block of administration towers and slabs erected across Pretoria. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of architectural history as well as those with an interest in postcolonial studies, political science and social anthropology.
Author : Peter Blundell Jones,Eamonn Canniffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135144098
Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence and role have been overlooked by conventional histories of the subject, is discussed. The case study structure allows each example to be discussed and used as a springboard to explore different theoretical approaches. Filled with beautiful photographs, plans and architect's drawings, this is a clear and accessible discussion on a period of architecture that engages many questions still under debate in architecture today.
Author : Corinne Saunders,David Fuller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137426741
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.
Author : Avery Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000026462585
Author : Dirk van den Heuvel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 9052694125
Author : Sven-Olov Wallenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9197724750
Author : Iain Boyd Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134325191
This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual and educational phenomenon, shifting the focus of scholarly interest towards the often-neglected emotional and aesthetic aspects of post-war planning. Each essay is grounded in original archival research and sheds new light on this critical era in the development of modern town planning. This collection is a valuable resource for architectural, social and urban historians, as well as students and researchers offering new insights into the development of the mid-twentieth century city.
Author : Jonathan Bell,Ellie Stathaki
Publisher : Laurence King
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822036582443
Modern architecture is a story of movements, styles and genres. But what of the work that remains defiantly unique, refusing to submit to a label or genre? This book looks at the emerging trend of architecture that favours substance over style, combining functional design and sustainable processes with a straightforward, honest aesthetic.
Author : Alison Margaret Smithson,Alison Smithson,Peter Smithson
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006356573
"When le Corbusier assembled "Vers Une Architecture,"" write the Smithsons, "he gave to young architects everywhere a way of looking at the emergent machine-served society, and from that, a way of looking at antiquity and a rationale to support his personal aesthetic. Viollet-le-Duc had performed the same service to architects before le Corbusier: the role they played is traditional to the development of architecture. In this essay, based on material written between 1955 and 1972, we try to do the same as these architects before us."We write to make ourselves see what we have got in the inescapable present...to give another interpretation of the same ruins...to show a glimpse of another aesthetic."The Smithsons gained an international reputation in the early 1950s, both for their buildings and for being instrumental in the development of the "thoughtful" approach to modern architecture. Their theoretical accommodation of the economic and social context in which the architect/urbanist works was set out as succinctly as possible in "Urban Structuring, " published in 1967. "Team 10 Primer, " first published in a special issue of "Architectural Design" in 1962, and subsequently brought up to date and published by The MIT Press in book form in 1968, documented the Smithsons' search with other leading architect/urbanist/teachers for a technique of working together, a skill or way of thinking that past cultures obviously had but that seemed to be lost to the builders in our present cities."Without Rhetoric"--concerned with architectural form and its material embodiment--is a parallel volume to "Ordinariness and Light" (The MIT Press, 1970), which contained those essays concerning urban form written over the years 1952-1960. Architecture tends to be long-lasting, which makes thoughtful architects cautious, anxious to try to understand, to respond intelligently. They tend to dig into things, so that their intuition has as sound a base as possible to work on. "Without Rhetoric" is a refinement of the results of twenty years of such digging, intended to give the reader a real feeling for these particular architects' interests and obsessions. Among the many subjects discussed in word and image are The New Brutalism...the role of advertising in shaping what we think we need...The Rocket, a statement on the present state of architecture...Mies van der Rohe, a homage...some meditations on Braun...The use of repetition....
Author : Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson,Beatriz Colomina,Design Museum (London, England)
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9789064505287
Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth century. As younger members of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) and as founding members of Team 10 they were at the heart of the debate on the future course of Modern Architecture. Their polemics and designs - addressing issues such as the rising consumer society and the orientation of urban planning - laid the foundations for New Brutalism and the Pop Art Movement of the 1960s. An important adaptation made by the Smithsons and their generation was the rejection of modernism's machine aesthetics. The new notions of place and territory were juxtaposed to Le Corbusier's machine à habiter. To the Smithsons a house was a particular place, which should be suited to its location and able to meet the ordinary requirements of everyday life and to accommodate its inhabitants' individual patterns of use. This exhibition examines the evolution of the Smithsons' approach to this everyday "art of inhabitation." It does this by extensively documenting most of their designs for individual dwellings, especially their optimistic House of the Future of 1956 and the series of renovations of and additions to the fairy-tale-like Hexenhaus in Germany from the late 1980s onward
Author : Ian Abley,James Heartfield
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055449782
In this age of ever-increasing environmental awareness, the issue of sustainability is set to become the dominant factor in architectural design. At a time when, like most professions, architectural practice is increasingly governed by legal guidelines and requirements, competing policy demands require architects to aim for economic, social and environmental sustainability whilst also trying to effect social progress. Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age asks whether these two ambitions can be reconciled. Featuring contributions from architects, journalists, academics and legal consultants, the book takes a balanced look at the subject, giving the full range of sometimes opposing views. Examining all the key issues, it considers why the industrial development of town and country is considered unsustainable rather than socially imperative, and whether the aim of raising the level, standard and performance of arhcitectural production conflicts with the promotion of sustainability. Over the last decade the profession and practice of architecture has changed rapidly. Sir Michael Latham's 'Constructing the team' and Sir John Egan's 'Rethinking Construction' attempted to turn the building industry from labour-intensive trade contracting the capital intensity of manufacturing. Paul Hyett, the current president of the Royal Institue of british architects, has a mandate to establish an environmental duty of care. Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age considers what these initiatives mean for architects.
Author : Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1580930506
The Smithsons have also added contemporary commentary to provide a context for the work."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1131385610