Marcel Breuer Bauhaus Tradition Brutalist Invention

Author : Barry Bergdoll,John H. Beyer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781588396112

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"Marcel Breuer: Bauhaus Tradition, Brutalist Invention" by Barry Bergdoll,John H. Beyer Pdf

Following the opening of The Met Breuer, this fascinating Bulletin contextualizes the architectural masterpiece now dedicated to displaying The Met’s collection of modern and contemporary art. Designed by one of the twentieth century’s most visionary architects, the Breuer building is a Brutalist icon and a work of art in its own right, known for its monumentality and stark purity of materials. Providing not just a history of the building commission, but also charting the artistic journey of Marcel Breuer from Bauhaus-educated furniture designer to world-renowned architect, this informative publication both records and contributes to the rich history surrounding Breuer and his landmark museum.

Author : Barry Bergdoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959207837

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Marcel Breuer by Barry Bergdoll Pdf

Author : Alan Powers
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500774656

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Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America by Alan Powers Pdf

An exploration of the Bauhaus school and its legacy in the context of the modernist period, including its wider influence on art, design, and education. Bauhaus Goes West is the story of cultural and artistic exchange between Germany and the West over a period of seventy years. It presents a view of the influential Bauhaus school in relation to the wider modernist period, distinguishing between the received idea of the Bauhaus and the documented reality. Initially, the Bauhaus was seen as an educational experiment, only later was it recognized as a style and a movement. Working from meticulous research, Alan Powers reexamines speculations about the reception and understanding of individuals connected with the Bauhaus school and what they ultimately achieved. Looking in greater detail at the theory and practice of art, design, and architecture between the arts and crafts movement and modernism, this book challenges the assumption that the 1920s represented a void of reactionary conservatism. Bauhaus Goes West offers an opportunity to recover some of the overlooked aspects of avant-garde that ran parallel with the work of the Bauhaus, such as the film-making of Francis Brugui re and Len Lye, and the development of art instruction for children under Marion Richardson and the London County Council.

Author : Eran Neuman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003800774

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Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel by Eran Neuman Pdf

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel. A graduate of the Bauhaus, Sharon worked for a few years at the office of Hannes Mayer before returning to Mandatory Palestine. There, he established his office which was occupied in its first years in planning kibbutzim and residential buildings in Tel Aviv. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Arieh Sharon became the director and chief architect of the National Planning Department, where he was asked to devise the young country’s first national masterplan. Known as the Sharon Plan, it was instrumental in shaping the development of the new nation. During the 1950s and 1960s, Sharon designed many of Israel’s institutions, including hospitals and buildings on university campuses. This book presents Sharon’s exceptionally wide range of work and examines his perception of architecture in both socialist and pragmatist terms. It also explores Sharon’s modernist approach to architecture and his subsequent shift to Brutalist architecture, when he partnered with Benjamin Idelson in the 1950s and when his son, Eldar Sharon, joined the office in 1964. Thus, the book contributes a missing chapter in the historiography of Israeli architecture in particular and of modern architecture overall. This book will be of interest to researchers in architecture, modern architecture, Israel studies, Middle Eastern studies and migration of knowledge.

Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674737853

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Gropius by Fiona MacCarthy Pdf

Fiona MacCarthy challenges the image of Walter Gropius as a doctrinaire architectural rationalist, bringing out the vision and courage that carried him through a politically hostile age. Approaching the Bauhaus founder from all angles, she offers a poignant personal story, one that reexamines the urges that drove Euro-American modernism as a whole.

Author : Marian Macken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351266420

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Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice by Marian Macken Pdf

Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional, complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists’ books in particular – that is, a book made as an original work of art, with an artist, designer or architect as author – have certain qualities and characteristics, quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality, the structure and objecthood of the book, and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way, the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived, constructed and read. In five main sections, Binding Space examines the relationships between the drawing, the building and the book. It proposes thinking through the book as a form of spatial practice, one in which the book is cast as object, outcome, process and tool. Through the book, we read spatial practice anew.

Author : Alexandra Lange
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781632866370

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The Design of Childhood by Alexandra Lange Pdf

From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development. Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but the toys, classrooms, playgrounds, and neighborhoods little ones engage with are just as important. These objects and spaces encode decades, even centuries of changing ideas about what makes for good child-rearing--and what does not. Do you choose wooden toys, or plastic, or, increasingly, digital? What do youngsters lose when seesaws are deemed too dangerous and slides are designed primarily for safety? How can the built environment help children cultivate self-reliance? In these debates, parents, educators, and kids themselves are often caught in the middle. Now, prominent design critic Alexandra Lange reveals the surprising histories behind the human-made elements of our children's pint-size landscape. Her fascinating investigation shows how the seemingly innocuous universe of stuff affects kids' behavior, values, and health, often in subtle ways. And she reveals how years of decisions by toymakers, architects, and urban planners have helped--and hindered--American youngsters' journeys toward independence. Seen through Lange's eyes, everything from the sandbox to the street becomes vibrant with buried meaning. The Design of Childhood will change the way you view your children's world--and your own.

Author : Marcel Breuer,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Architects
ISBN : UOM:39015049695722

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Marcel Breuer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Marcel Breuer,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Marcel Breuer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X000683981

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Marcel Breuer by Marcel Breuer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0985995866

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Transitional Moments by Anonim Pdf

Architect Marcel Breuer's House in the Museum Garden, now considered one of the most influential architecture exhibitions of the 20th century, was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and built in their garden in 1949. Exhibited to record attendance, the house featured the updated Bauhaus prescriptions for modern living--an airy, informal combination living room/dining room and a pass-through kitchen--and was intended to inspire the future of American housing. The project featured custom hardware produced by W.C. Vaughan in collaboration with Breuer, which included everything from mahogany door knobs to cabinet hinges. Vaughan also supplied hardware for Breuer's iconic Frank House, the Geller House, Breuer's own houses in Massachusetts and Connecticut plus houses by Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson and other modernist masters. An essay by historian Robert Wiesenberger, historical black-and-white and color photographs by Ezra Stoller plus shop drawings by Vaughan of the hardware complete this deeply engaging and important architectural publication.

Author : Marcel Breuer,Alexander von Vegesack,Mathias Remmele,Barry Bergdoll
Publisher : Vitra Design Stiftung
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3931936422

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Marcel Breuer by Marcel Breuer,Alexander von Vegesack,Mathias Remmele,Barry Bergdoll Pdf

A complete monograph on the rich design archive of Bauhaus powerhouse Marcel Breuer. Though best known today for his furniture, especially his tubular steel Wassily armchair, Breuer also deserves notice for architecture of 1930s and postwar era, including UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art. With personal accounts by Breuer himself, I.M. Pei and Robert F. Gatje, Breuer's former partner.

Author : Christopher Wilk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Furniture
ISBN : UOM:49015001227561

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Marcel Breuer, Furniture and Interiors by Christopher Wilk Pdf

Author : Otto Wagner
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226869391

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Modern Architecture by Otto Wagner Pdf

In 1896, Otto Wagner's "Modern Architecture" shocked the European architectural community with its impassioned plea for an end to eclecticism and for a "modern" style suited to contemporary needs and ideals, utilizing the nascent constructional technologies and materials. Through the combined forces of his polemical, pedagogical, and professional efforts, this determined, newly appointed professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts emerged in the late 1890s - along with such contemporaries as Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow and Louis Sullivan in Chicago - as one of the leaders of the revolution soon to be identified as the "Modern Movement." Wagner's historic manifesto is now presented in a new English translation - the first in almost ninety years - based on the expanded 1902 text and noting emendations made to the 1896, 1898, and 1914 editions. In his introduction, Dr. Harry Mallgrave examines Wagner's tract against the backdrop of nineteenth-century theory, critically exploring the affinities of Wagner's revolutionary élan with the German eclectic debate of the 1840s, the materialistic tendencies of the 1870s and 1880s, and the emerging cultural ideology of modernity. Modern Architecture is one of those rare works in the literature of architecture that not only proclaimed the dawning of a new era, but also perspicaciously and cogently shaped the issues and the course of its development; it defined less the personal aspirations of one individual and more the collective hopes and dreams of a generation facing the sanguine promise of a new century

Author : Anonim
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015010528266

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Bauhaus Photography by Anonim Pdf

Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s include portraits, still lifes, and pictures of furniture, sculpture, and class projects, and are accompanied by discussions of the Bauhaus movement.

Author : Allison Lee Palmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781442263093

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Historical Dictionary of Architecture by Allison Lee Palmer Pdf

This dictionary provides a historical overview of the major architectural developments and styles, building materials and types, major structures and locations, sites and architects. Historical eras like ancient Egyptian architecture and the Renaissance in Europe and movements such as Art Deco are covered. Materials discussed range from concrete, stone, glass and wood, while types of structures include architectural inventions such as the arch and dome to building types from monasteries and mosques to museums and skyscrapers. Major structures highlighted in this volume include not only great achievements such as Hagia Sophia and the Eiffel Tower, but also important sites such as the Great Zimbabwe and Angkor Wat, found on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. General geographical areas are also covered, such as African and Russian architecture. Noted architects include theorists from the ancient Chinese engineer Yu Hao Roman engineer Vitruvius to many current architects such as Zaha Hadid and Santiago Calatrava, with a focus on architects who have enjoyed lasting fame through history or have won international prizes such as the Pritzker Architecture Prize. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Architecture contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on architects, famous structures, types of materials, and the different architectural styles. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about architecture.