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Author : Alan Colquhoun
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780191592645

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Modern Architecture by Alan Colquhoun Pdf

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 : Peter Go ssel,Gabriele Leuthäuser
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3822811629

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Architecture in the Twentieth Century by Peter Go ssel,Gabriele Leuthäuser Pdf

After several pages of prologue summing up 18th century highlights--especially the rise in importance of geometry--some forty pages cover 1784-1916, focusing on the heavily fenestrated high-rises of the Chicago School and the iron and glass pavilions of Europe. The chapter spanning 1892-1925 concentrates on the many disputes over the trajectory of modernism: Nieuwe Kunst, Stile Liberty, Jugendstil, and Art Nouveau, all arguing the direction that the boom of prisons, hospitals, schools, town halls, and other institutional buildings would take. Three more time divisions follow and a concise compendium of architect biographies ends the volume. Along with an array of great pictures (par for Taschen), Gossel and Leuthauser--both active in the private sector--add a strong prose style attentive to debates among architects and the socioeconomic stage on which architects act. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Adam Stech
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783791386096

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Modern Architecture and Interiors by Adam Stech Pdf

This atlas of more than one thousand Modernist architectural masterpieces uncovers hidden gems while offering new perspectives on old favorites. In 2006, architecture and design curator Adam Stech embarked on a photographic project to document the best Modernist architecture around the globe. More than thirty countries and more than a decade later, the fruits of that monumental project are gathered in this impressive collection covering nearly a century of architectural history. Driven by a passion for rediscovering forgotten or lesser known architectural treasures of Modernism, Stech took thousands of diverse photographs of exteriors and interiors. This survey features often overlooked details and hidden projects that Stech helps bring to light. His brief commentary on each featured building reveals insights into his vast collection of images that includes treasures of Italian Modernism, American mid-century classics, South American Art Deco, Belgian organic architecture, French Brutalism, forgotten Australian modern houses, and much more. This expansive and inspiring book is the definitive guide to architecture in the 20th century in all its different forms and tendencies from its strict rationalist to flamboyant decorative styles.

Author : Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616898830

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Canadian Modern Architecture by Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey Pdf

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends • Regional and indigenous architectural tendencies • The influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver Co-published with Canadian Architect, this comprehensive reference book is extensively illustrated and includes fifteen specially commissioned essays.

Author : Antoni S. Folkers,Belinda A. C. van Buiten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030010751

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Modern Architecture in Africa by Antoni S. Folkers,Belinda A. C. van Buiten Pdf

This book offers unique insights into modern African architecture, influenced by modern European architecture, and at the same time a natural successor to existing site-specific and traditional architecture. It brings together the worlds of traditional site-specific architecture with the Modernist Project in Africa, which to date have only been considered in isolation. The book covers the four architectural disciplines: urban planning, building technology, building physics, and conservation. It includes an introduction with a historical outline and an analysis and comparison of a number of projects in various countries in Africa. On the basis of examples drawn from practice, the author documents and describes the hybrid architectural forms that have emerged from the confrontation and fusion with (pre)modern Western architecture and urban planning, and in so doing he also narrates the history of African architecture.

Author : Laszlo Taschen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3836521326

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Modern Architecture A-Z: M-Z by Laszlo Taschen Pdf

Author : Terry Kirk
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568984367

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The Architecture of Modern Italy by Terry Kirk Pdf

“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms of rupture and rapid innovation. Charting the evolution of a culture renowned for its historical past into the 10 modern era challenges our understanding of both the resilience of tradition and the elasticity of modernity. We have a tendency when imagining Italy to look to a rather distant and definitely premodern setting. The ancient forum, medieval cloisters,baroque piazzas,and papal palaces constitute our ideal itinerary of Italian civilization. The Campo of Siena,Saint Peter’s,all of Venice and San Gimignano satisfy us with their seemingly unbroken panoramas onto historical moments untouched by time;but elsewhere modern intrusions alter and obstruct the view to the landscapes of our expectations. As seasonal tourist or seasoned historian,we edit the encroachments time and change have wrought on our image of Italy. The learning of history is always a complex task,one that in the Italian environment is complicated by the changes wrought everywhere over the past 250 years. Culture on the peninsula continues to evolve with characteristic vibrancy. Italy is not a museum. To think of it as such—as a disorganized yet phenomenally rich museum unchanging in its exhibits—is to misunderstand the nature of the Italian cultural condition and the writing of history itself.

Author : M. Reza Shirazi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319721859

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Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Iran by M. Reza Shirazi Pdf

This book presents an in-depth critical analysis of the internationally recognized, place-specific works of three Iranian architects (Nader Ardalan, Kamran Diba and Hossein Amanat) during the 60s and 70s, and their significant contribution to the emerging anti-modernist discourse.It argues that from the mid-19th century onwards architecture and urban design in Iran has been oscillated between two extremes of modernity and tradition. Drawing on the theory of ‘critical regionalism’ (Kenneth Frampton), the book critically analyses writings and works of the above-mentioned architects and contends that they created a ‘space-in-between’ which unified two extremes of tradition and modernity in a creative way (Khalq-i Jadid: New Creation). The book also contains three in-depth interviews with architects to discuss their singular narrative of the creation of ‘in-between’. A concluding chapter addresses the promises of critical regionalist architecture and urban design in post-Revolutionary Iran as well as the Middle East, where the dichotomy of tradition and modernity is yet a valid account.

Author : Otto Kapfinger,Dietmar Steiner,Adolph Stiller,Jaime Salazar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764360313

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Architecture in Austria : a Survey of the 20th Century by Otto Kapfinger,Dietmar Steiner,Adolph Stiller,Jaime Salazar Pdf

Author : Louis Hellman
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015054126209

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Architecture A to Z by Louis Hellman Pdf

In this alphabet of architectural terms each letter has its own chapter with a series of drawings and a small amount of text illustrating architectural terms and definitions. Everyone that has ever bought any of Hellman?s work or seen his regular strip in the Architectural Journal will be fascinated by this colourful, informative and fun volume. It?s an interesting and engaging guide through the architectural process and the huge range of factors which affect the building in its development and design. He intrigues and informs the reader by explaining the development of the architectural process. Hellman?s work is internationally renowned within the field of architecture and has enduring popularity with all divisions of the profession.

Author : Taschen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 383658316X

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Modern Architecture A-Z by Taschen Pdf

Explore the A to Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti's colored geometries to Zaha Hadid's free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features almost 300 profiles of architects, styles, movements, and trends that have shaped structures from the 19th to the 21st century.

Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : Thames and Hudson Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500775915

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Modern Architecture by Kenneth Frampton Pdf

This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition, Kenneth Frampton has added a new section that explores in detail the modernist tradition in architecture across the globe in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He examines the varied ways in which architects are not only responding to the geographical, climatic, material and cultural contexts of their buildings, but also pursuing distinct lines of approach that emphasize topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality habitat and civic form. It remains an essential book for all students of architecture and architectural history.

Author : Sir J. M. Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:802768641

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An Introduction to Modern Architecture by Sir J. M. Richards Pdf

Author : Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum,Denise Scott Brown
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3038601276

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Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown by Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum,Denise Scott Brown Pdf

"The exhibition catalogue is published in the form of a guidebook, Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown. This new book offers a fresh view of Scott Brown's achievements as a preeminent architectural designer, urbanist, theoretician, and teacher. It is a fantastic guide to her life and ideas, it also reveals her humanism, complexity, and wit. Accompanied by previously unpublished material and an extensive conversation with the architect herself the book leads readers through Denise Scott Brown's life and work and explains the genesis of the exhibition". (éditeur).

Author : Sam Lubell
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714871958

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Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA by Sam Lubell Pdf

A must-have guide to one of the most fertile regions for the development of Mid-Century Modern architecture This handbook - the first ever to focus on the architectural wonders of the West Coast of the USA - provides visitors with an expertly curated list of 250 must-see destinations. Discover the most celebrated Modernist buildings, as well as hidden gems and virtually unknown examples - from the iconic Case Study houses to the glamour of Palm Springs' spectacular Modern desert structures. Much more than a travel guide, this book is a compelling record of one of the USA's most important architectural movements at a time when Mid-Century style has never been more popular. First-hand descriptions and colour photography transport readers into an era of unparalleled style, glamour, and optimism.