Five North American Architects

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3037782560

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Five North American Architects by Kenneth Frampton Pdf

Five North American Architects - An Anthology brings together five architectural practices which, while all distinct, share a particularly sensitive feeling for the impact of craftsmanship and climate on the generation of form, as well as an equally shared concern for the expressive tactility of material and the articulation of structure under the impact of light. The book is an in depth survey of recent work by Steven Holl (New York), Rick Joy (Tucson), John and Patricia Patkau (Vancouver), Stanley Saitowitz (San Francisco), and Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe (Toronto). The regional specificity of the work is considered against a larger North American context, allowing one to assess the practice of architecture across the continent today.

Author : Kenneth Hafertepe,James F. O'Gorman
Publisher : Studies in Print Culture and t
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015053100254

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American Architects and Their Books to 1848 by Kenneth Hafertepe,James F. O'Gorman Pdf

Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, 12 historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period when the profession of architecture was first emerging in the United States.

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780500775929

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Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fifth) (World of Art) by Kenneth Frampton Pdf

An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton. Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of globalization and the phenomenon of international celebrity architects, this book is the definitive history of modern architecture. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition of Modern Architecture, Frampton added new chapters exploring the ongoing modernist tradition in architecture while also examining the varied responses to the urgent need to build more sustainably and create structures that will withstand changing climates. This new edition features completely redesigned interiors and an updated and expanded bibliography, making this volume more indispensable than ever.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X001788862

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American Architect by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vincent Scully
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781595341808

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American Architecture and Urbanism by Vincent Scully Pdf

A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on Vincent Scully's conviction that architecture and city planning are inseparably linked and must therefore be treated together. He defines architecture as a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time. This definitive survey extends beyond the cities themselves to the American scene as a whole, which has inspired the reasonable balanced, closed and ordered forms, and above all the probity, that he feels typifies American architecture.

Author : Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre,Richard Diamond
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0821222287

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Architecture in North America Since 1960 by Alexander Tzonis,Liane Lefaivre,Richard Diamond Pdf

Author : Esther McCoy,Randell L. Makinson
Publisher : Hennessey & Ingalls
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Architects
ISBN : 0275717208

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Five California Architects by Esther McCoy,Randell L. Makinson Pdf

"The five architects - Bernard Maybeck, Irving Gill, the brothers Charles and Henry Greene, and R.M. Schindler - whose work and lives are presented here were seminal figures in American architecture. As Californians they were less influenced than their Eastern contemporaries by the European styles that prevailed in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, and each of them devised an original style that has had a profound effect on younger generations of American architects."--The inside cover

Author : James D. Kornwolf,Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801859867

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Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America by James D. Kornwolf,Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf Pdf

Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.

Author : G.E. Kidder Smith
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568982542

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Source Book of American Architecture by G.E. Kidder Smith Pdf

This comprehensive and insightful illustrated survey of 500 of America's most distinguished buildings provides a unique overview of the thousand-year architectural development of the United States. It examines our nation's architecture from its earliest days to the present, ranging from cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Chicago to James Ingo Freed's Holocaust Museum in Washington. Indispensable in any library, it also serves as a general introduction to American architecture or as a splendid guide for tourists.

Author : Michelangelo Sabatino,Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781780236797

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Canada by Michelangelo Sabatino,Rhodri Windsor Liscombe Pdf

Canada is a country of massive size, of diverse geographical features and an equally diverse population—all features that are magnificently reflected in its architecture. In this book, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino offer a richly informative history of Canadian architecture that celebrates and explores the country’s many contributions to the spread of architectural modernity in the Americas. A distinct Canadian design attitude coalesced during the twentieth century, one informed by a liberal, hybrid, and pragmatic mindset intent less upon the dogma of architectural language and more on thinking about the formation of inclusive spaces and places. Taking a fresh perspective on design production, they map the unfolding of architectural modernity across the country, from the completion of the transcontinental railway in the late 1880s through to the present. Along the way they discuss architecture within the broader contexts of political, industrial, and sociocultural evolution; the urban-suburban expansion; and new building technologies. Examining the works of architects and firms such as ARCOP, Eric Arthur, Ernest Cormier, Brigitte Shim, and Howard Sutcliffe, this book brings Canadian architecture chronologically and thematically to life.

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350183803

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Architecture and the Public World by Kenneth Frampton Pdf

This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical–theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the “predicament” of architecture in the new Millennium. The essays explore Frampton's contention that architecture's imperative is to assume a significant responsibility for the edification and stewardship of the Arendtian 'public world.' One of the most theoretically sophisticated and politically committed architectural thinkers, Frampton's work breaks emphatically with the limits and norms of much contemporary practice and restores a sense of richness and social consequence of architecture's 'unfinished project,' while offering abiding lessons not only for architecture but for social, cultural, and design criticism alike.

Author : Sebastiaan Loosen,Rajesh Heynickx,Hilde Heynen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462702240

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The Figure of Knowledge by Sebastiaan Loosen,Rajesh Heynickx,Hilde Heynen Pdf

It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made. The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.

Author : George Everard Kidder Smith
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568980256

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Source Book of American Architecture by George Everard Kidder Smith Pdf

This survey provides a unique overview of 1,000-years of architectural development.

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037783699

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Genealogy of Modern Architecture by Kenneth Frampton Pdf

"A Genealogy of Modern Architecture" is a reference work on modern architecture by Kenneth Frampton, one of today's leading architectural theorists. Conceived as a genealogy of twentieth century architecture from 1924 to 2000, it compiles some sixteen comparative analyses of canonical modern buildings ranging from exhibition pavilions and private houses to office buildings and various kinds of public institutions. The buildings are compared in terms of their hierarchical spatial order, circulation structure and referential details. The analyses are organized so as to show what is similar and different between two paired types, thus revealing how modern tradition has been diversely inflected. Richly illustrated, "A Genealogy of Modern Architecture" is a new standard work in architectural education.

Author : Michael J. Ostwald,Josephine Vaughan
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,6 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.