Five Architects Eisenman Graves Gwathmey Hejduk Meier

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822004769576

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Five Architects by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Five Architects, originally published in 1975, grew out of a meeting of the CASE group (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. The purpose of this gathering was to exhibit and criticize the work of five architects -- Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, and Meier -- who constituted a New York school, and who are now among the most influential architects working today.The buildings shown here have more diversity than one might expect from a school, but share certain properties of form, scale, and treatment of material. Collectively, their work makes a modest claim: it is only architecture, not the salvation of man and the redemption of the earth.Providing complete drawings and photographic documentation, this collection also includes a comparative critique by Kenneth Frampton, an Introduction by Colin Rowe that suggests a still broader context for the work as a whole, and two short texts in which individual positions are outlined. Now back in,print, Five Architects serves as a reference to the early work of some of America's most important architects and provides us with a glimpse back at the direction of architecture as they saw it over twenty years ago.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195197941

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Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marco Biraghi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262519564

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Project of Crisis by Marco Biraghi Pdf

An examination of the influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri's historical construction of contemporary architecture. The influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994) invoked the productive possibilities of crisis, writing that history is a "project of crisis" (progetto di crisi). In this entry in the Writing Architecture series, Marco Biraghi explores Tafuri's multifaceted and often knotty oeuvre, using the historian's concept of a project of crisis as a lens through which to examine his historical construction of contemporary architecture. Mindful of Tafuri's statement that there is no such thing as criticism, only history, Biraghi carefully maps the influences on Tafuri's writing—Walter Benjamin, Karl Krauss, Massimo Cacciari, and the architect Ludovico Quaroni, among others—in order to create a portrait of one of the most complex minds in twentieth-century architecture and architectural history. Tracing an arc from Tafuri's first articles in the magazine Contropiano to the idea of contradiction at the center of the project of crisis, Biraghi cites Tafuri's writing on some of his contemporaries, including Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, and the "Five Architects" (Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, and Richard Meier). Tafuri's historical construction of the contemporary, Biraghi explains, is based on the idea that the past is open, providing the present with ever-changing and indeterminate form. There is no contradiction between Tafuri the historian and Tafuri the contemporary critic, only the greatest possible integration. The importance of Tafuri's interpretation of architecture goes beyond mere academic or historiographic interest, Biraghi argues; Tafuri's notion of the project of crisis is fundamentally important in understanding our present-day architectural condition

Author : Michael Brawne
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015037444372

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From Idea to Building by Michael Brawne Pdf

Both for architects and for general readers concerned with the effect of the built environment, explores how the design process influences the architectural outcome of a building, and how it fits into the overall artistic and technological state of the society. Draws on recent work in the philosophy of architecture and on case studies, many of them Brawne's own projects. Highly illustrated. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ian Volner
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781616896850

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Michael Graves by Ian Volner Pdf

One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century, Michael Graves is best known for his popular product designs, including the world-famous Alessi whistling-bird teakettle, and controversial buildings, such as the Portland Building in Oregon, Humana Building in Kentucky, and Dolphin and Swan Hotels at Walt Disney World, Florida. Graves was widely seen as the leading voice of postmodernist architecture, which reintroduced human scale, color, and, sometimes, playful forms into the stark white vocabulary of modernism. Following a devastating illness that paralyzed him from the chest down, Graves became a tireless designer and advocate of improved health-care products and facilities before his sudden death in 2015. Shortly before this, he began a series of interviews with journalist Ian Volner, which form the basis of this biography of a remarkable designer. Volner also conducted numerous interviews with Graves's family, patrons, colleagues, and friends. What emerges is a meticulously researched, anecdote-rich human story, as well as a primer on the American architecture scene of the past sixty years and a portrait of a man whose deep passion for his art brought pleasure to millions.

Author : Dana Buntrock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134725083

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Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture by Dana Buntrock Pdf

In this beautiful and perceptive book, Dana Buntrock examines, for the first time, how tradition is incorporated into contemporary Japanese architecture. Looking at the work of five architects – Fumihiko Maki, Terunobu Fujimori, Ryoji Suzuki, Kengo Kuma, and Jun Aoki – Buntrock reveals the aims influencing many wonderful works barely known in the West; the sensual side of Japanese architecture borne out of approaches often less concerned with professionalism than with people and place. The buildings described in this book illustrate an architecture that embraces uniqueness, expressing unusual stories in the rough outlines of rammed earth and rust, and demonstrating new paths opening up for architectural practice today. For some, these examples will offer new insight into expressions of tradition in Japanese architecture; for others, this book offers inspiration for their own efforts to assert the unique heritage of other regions around the world. Compelling, insightful and groundbreaking, this book is essential for everyone studying Japanese architecture and anyone trying to invoke narrative and tradition in contemporary design.

Author : Jordan Kauffman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262037372

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Drawing on Architecture by Jordan Kauffman Pdf

How architectural drawings emerged as aesthetic objects, promoted by a network of galleries, collectors, and institutions, and how this changed the understanding of architecture. Prior to the 1970s, buildings were commonly understood to be the goal of architectural practice; architectural drawings were seen simply as a means to an end. But, just as the boundaries of architecture itself were shifting at the end of the twentieth century, the perception of architectural drawings was also shifting; they began to be seen as autonomous objects outside the process of building. In Drawing on Architecture, Jordan Kauffman offers an account of how architectural drawings—promoted by a network of galleries and collectors, exhibitions and events—emerged as aesthetic objects and ultimately attained status as important cultural and historical artifacts, and how this was both emblematic of changes in architecture and a catalyst for these changes. Kauffman traces moments of critical importance to the evolution of the perception of architectural drawings, beginning with exhibitions that featured architectural drawings displayed in ways that did not elucidate buildings but treated them as meaningful objects in their own right. When architectural drawings were seen as having intrinsic value, they became collectible, and Kauffman chronicles early collectors, galleries, and sales. He discusses three key exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York; other galleries around the world that specialized in architectural drawings; the founding of architecture museums that understood and collected drawings as important cultural and historical artifacts; and the effect of the new significance of architectural drawings on architecture and architectural history. Drawing on interviews with more than forty people directly involved with the events described and on extensive archival research, Kauffman shows how architectural drawings became the driving force in architectural debate in an era of change.

Author : John Hejduk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047433548

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John Hejduk, 7 Houses by John Hejduk Pdf

Author : Léon Krier
Publisher : Papadakis Publisher
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 9781901092035

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Architecture by Léon Krier Pdf

This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.

Author : Michael J. Ostwald,Josephine Vaughan
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319324265

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The Fractal Dimension of Architecture by Michael J. Ostwald,Josephine Vaughan Pdf

Fractal analysis is a method for measuring, analysing and comparing the formal or geometric properties of complex objects. In this book it is used to investigate eighty-five buildings that have been designed by some of the twentieth-century’s most respected and celebrated architects. Including designs by Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi, Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier and Kazuyo Sejima amongst others, this book uses mathematics to analyse arguments and theories about some of the world’s most famous designs. Starting with 625 reconstructed architectural plans and elevations, and including more than 200 specially prepared views of famous buildings, this book presents the results of the largest mathematical study ever undertaken into architectural design and the largest single application of fractal analysis presented in any field. The data derived from this study is used to test three overarching hypotheses about social, stylistic and personal trends in design, along with five celebrated arguments about twentieth-century architecture. Through this process the book offers a unique mathematical insight into the history and theory of design.

Author : Stan Allen,Peter Eisenman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architects
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127472087

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Tracing Eisenman by Stan Allen,Peter Eisenman Pdf

A complete monograph of legendary and cult architect Peter Eisenman that sums up and fully illustrates his lifetime's achievement, from his first work, House I (1960), to his most recent projects, currently under construction in the US, Spain and Germany. The book is centred on 63 of Eisenman's most significant projects, interspersed by essays from international architects.

Author : Suzanne Shulof Frank
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015033330468

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Peter Eisenman's House VI by Suzanne Shulof Frank Pdf

Author : Michael J. Crosbie,The Images Publishing Group
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864703962

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New York Dozen by Michael J. Crosbie,The Images Publishing Group Pdf

Features New York's most celebrated architects

Author : Peter Eisenman
Publisher : New York : Rizzoli
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015018288590

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House X by Peter Eisenman Pdf

Author : Franca Trubiano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317510338

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Building Theories by Franca Trubiano Pdf

Building Theories speaks to the value of words in architecture. It addresses the author’s fascination with the voices of architects, engineers, builders, and craftspeople whose ideas about building have been captured in text. It discusses the content of treatises, essays, articles, and letters by those who have been, throughout history, committed to the art of building. In this, Building Theories argues for the return of a practice of architectural theory that is set amongst building, buildings, and builders. This journey of close reading reinterprets the words of Vitruvius, Alberti, de L’Orme, Le Camus de Mézières, Boullée, Laugier, Rondelet, Semper, Viollet-le-Duc, Hübsch, Bötticher, Berlage, Muthesius, Wagner, Behrendt, Gropius, and Arup. With chapters dedicated to texts from antiquity, the Renaissance, and the nineteenth century, and with a critical eye on architectural theory popularized in the Anglo-Saxon world post-1968, readers are introduced to a wider, more inclusive definition of architectural ideas. Building Theories considers how contemporary scholarship has steered away from the topic of building in its reluctance to admit that both design and construction are central to its concerns. In response, it argues for a realignment of architecture with the concept of techné, with a dual commitment to fabrica e ratio, with a productive return to l’art de bien bastir, with the accurate translation of the term Baukunst, and with an appeal to the architect’s ‘composite mind.’ Students, practitioners, and educators will identify in Building Theories ways of thinking that strive for the integration of design with construction; reject the supposed primacy of the former over the latter; recognize how aesthetics are an insufficient scaffold for subtending the subject of architectural ethics; and accept, without reservation, that material transformations have always been at the origins of built form.