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Author : Barry Bergdoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0192842226
it has an unrivalled consistency of argument... this book makes a substantial contribution to present knowledge and provides a clear window on the one art form you cannot ignore.
Author : Alan Colquhoun
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780191592645
This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the often contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition.
Author : Korydon Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136190308
This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject – such as tectonics, use, and site – as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text. He also introduces each chapter by highlighting key ideas and asking you a set of reflective questions so that you can hone your own theory, which is essential to both your success in the studio and your adaptability in the profession. These primary source texts, which are central to your understanding of the discipline, were written by such architects as Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi, and Adrian Forty. The appendices also have guides to aid your reading comprehension; to help you write descriptively, analytically, and disputationally; and to show you citation styles and how to do library-based research. More than any other architectural theory book about the great thinkers, Introducing Architectural Theory teaches you to think as well.
Author : Mark Gelernter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0719047277
Why did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1367951987
Author : Claude Mignot
Publisher : New York : Rizzoli
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951P00060638U
Author : Sigfried Giedion
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674030473
"This new edition ensures that the book will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture." -Walter Gropius "A remarkable accomplishment. . . one of the most valuable reference books for students and professionals concerned with the reshaping of our environment. " -José Luis Sert A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Architecture has been reissued many times since its first publication in 1941 and translated into half a dozen languages. In this revised edition of Sigfried Giedion’s classic work, major sections have been added and there are 81 new illustrations. The chapters on leading contemporary architects have been greatly expanded. There is new material on the later development of Frank Lloyd Wright and the more recent buildings of Walter Gropius, particularly his American Embassy in Athens. In his discussion of Le Corbusier, Mr. Giedion provides detailed analyses of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Le Corbusier’s only building in the United States, and his Priory of La Tourette near Lyons. There is a section on his relations with his clients and an assessment of his influence on contemporary architecture, including a description of the Le Corbusier Center in Zurich (designed just before his death), which houses his works of art. The chapters on Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto have been brought up to date with examples of their buildings in the sixties. There is an entirely new chapter on the Danish architect Jørn Utzon, whose work, as exemplified in his design for the Sydney Opera House, Mr. Giedion considers representative of post–World War II architectural concepts. A new essay, “Changing Notions of the City,” traces the evolution of the structure of the city throughout history and examines current attempts to deal with urban growth, as shown in the work of such architects as José Luis Sert, Kenzo Tange, and Fumihiko Maki. Mr. Sert’s Peabody Terrace is discussed as an example of the interlocking of the collective and individual spheres. Finally, the conclusion has been enlarged to include a survey of the limits of the organic in architecture.
Author : William R. Ware
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486137698
This includes tables of the Classical Orders, measured drawings of monuments, and practical instruction on classical design. 304 illustrations.
Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher : Baltimore, Penguin
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015014063575
Author : Steen Eiler Rasmussen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1964-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262680025
A classic examination of superb design through the centuries. Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence—ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace—Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience. In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pursuit, but a community undertaking. Dwellings were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use, resulting in “a remarkably suitable comeliness.” While we cannot return to a former age, Rasmussen notes, we can still design spaces that are beautiful and useful by seeking to understand architecture as an art form that must be experienced. An understanding of good design comes not only from one's professional experience of architecture as an abstract, individual pursuit, but also from one's shared, everyday experience of architecture in real time—its particular use of light, color, shape, scale, texture, rhythm and sound. Experiencing Architecture reminds us of what good architectural design has accomplished over time, what it can accomplish still, and why it is worth pursuing. Wide-ranging and approachable, it is for anyone who has ever wondered “what instrument the architect plays on.”
Author : Heinrich Hubsch
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892361991
Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.
Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195024028
This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.
Author : Colin Davies
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1786270579
Combining a fascinating, thought-provoking and – above all – readable text with over 800 photographs, plans, and sections, this exciting new reading of modern architecture is a must for students and architecture enthusiasts alike. Organized largely as a chronology, chapters necessarily overlap to allow for the discrete examination of key themes including typologies, movements, and biographical studies, as well as the impact of evolving technology and country-specific influences.
Author : Catherine Bauer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452963228
The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement Originally published in 1934, Modern Housing is widely acknowledged as one of the most important books on housing of the twentieth century, introducing the latest developments in European modernist housing to an American audience. It is also a manifesto: America needs to draw on Europe’s example to solve its housing crisis. Only when housing is transformed into a planned, public amenity will it truly be modern. Modern Housing’s sharp message catalyzed an intense period of housing activism in the United States, resulting in the Housing Act of 1937, which Catherine Bauer coauthored. But these reforms never went far enough: so long as housing remained the subject of capitalist speculation, Bauer knew the housing problem would remain. In light of today’s affordable housing emergency, her prescriptions for how to achieve humane and dignified modern housing remain as instructive and urgent as ever.
Author : Charles Percier,Pierre-Francois-Leonard Fontaine
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1616896981
Known as "Napoleon's architects," Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre Fontaine (1762-1853) were not only Emperor's official government architects, but two of the most celebrated teachers at the legendary Ecole des Beaux-Arts, responsible for developing the highly influential neoclassical Empire, or Directoire, style of design In addition to their renovations to the Louvre and the Tuileries, and construction of the Arc de Tromphe de Carttousel, they are best known for Empress Josephine's house at Malmaison, where they effectively invented the profession of interior design by crafting every detail including all the furnishings. This book collects the entire printed output of these two important architects and archeologists of Roman architecture, four volumes condensed into one, and serves as the definitive edition on their work. The Collected Works of Percier and Fontaine is introduced by critic and historian Barry Bergdoll, and published in association with the Institute for Classical Art and Architecture.