Revaluing Modern Architecture

Author : John Allan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000564662

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Revaluing Modern Architecture by John Allan Pdf

The conservation of our Modern architectural heritage is a subject of vehement debate. When do buildings become old or significant enough to warrant special heritage status and protection? Should Modern listed buildings be treated differently from those of earlier periods? And what does all this mean for building users and owners, who might be better served if their buildings were less authentic, but more comfortable and usable? Presenting a clear line of sight through these complex questions, this book explores the conservation, regeneration and adaptive re-use of Modern architecture. It provides a general grounding in the field, its recent history and current development, including chapters on authenticity, charters, listing and protection. Case studies drawing on the author’s extensive practical experience offer valuable lessons learnt in the conservation of Modern heritage buildings. Looking beyond the specialist field of ‘elite’ heritage, Revaluing Modern Architecture also considers the changing culture of conservation for ‘sub-iconic’ buildings in relation to de-carbonisation and the climate emergency. It suggests how revaluing the vast legacy of modern architecture can help to promote a more sustainable future. Features leading conservation projects, such as the celebrated Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Finsbury Health Centre by Lubetkin & Tecton and Wells Coates’ Isokon (Lawn Road) Flats, as well as previously unpublished projects. Analyses key Modern conservation controversies of recent years Illustrated with over 160 photos and drawings. An essential primer for architectural students and practitioners, academics, those employed in conservation and planning, property owners, developers, surveyors and building managers.

Author : Dirk van den Heuvel
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781586039172

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The Challenge of Change by Dirk van den Heuvel Pdf

"The legacy of the Modern Movement has gained legendary status, largely as a result of the appreciation of the masterworks and the visionary architectural concepts. In the reality of everyday life, however, it has been difficult to maintain the architectural creations of the Modern Movement in such a way that they still reflect the original intentions of their designers. Many buildings and ensembles of the Modern Movement have already been saved; the icons amongst these have even become so precious that they are treated like pieces of art rather than as buildings in everyday use. But despite the successes that have been achieved, many buildings and ensembles are still at risk of demolition or maltreatment. The bi-annul international conference is one means by which it is possible to continue furthering the aims of Docomomo. Knowing that many modern architects aimed at functionality and changeability, the challenge for today is how to deal with the modern heritage in relation to its continuously changing context, including physical, economic and functional changes, as well as socio-cultural, political and scientific ones. It is with this in mind that conservation in general, and the conservation of modern architecture in particular, has become a new challenge. Rather than attempting to return a modern building to its presumed original state, our challenge is to revalue the essence of the manifold manifestations of modern architecture and redefine its meanings in our changing world of digital revolution, worldwide mobility and environmental awareness."--Jacket.

Author : Reyner Banham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:31420372

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Guide to Modern Architecture by Reyner Banham Pdf

Author : Bill Risebero
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262680467

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Modern Architecture and Design by Bill Risebero Pdf

British architect and planner Bill Risebero recreates 200 years of modern architecture and design against a backdrop of class dominance over rising industrialism. The lively and opinionated text and more than 1,000 captioned drawings by the author provide a refreshing reinterpretation of architectural developments in the modern period.

Author : Panayotis Tournikiotis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262700859

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The Historiography of Modern Architecture by Panayotis Tournikiotis Pdf

The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts. Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history—of buildings to books—has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture. Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure. Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:77673044

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Modern Architecture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry Francis Mallgrave
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1139443402

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Modern Architectural Theory by Harry Francis Mallgrave Pdf

Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural discourse within its social and political context. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves, as they contentiously shaped Western architecture. He also examines the compelling currents of French rationalist and British empiricist thought, radical reformation of the theory during the Enlightenment, the intellectual ambitions and historicist debates of the nineteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval of the 1960s. Modern Architectural Theory challenges many assumptions about architectural modernism and uncovers many new dimensions of the debates about modernism.

Author : John R. Gold
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136743047

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The Experience of Modernism by John R. Gold Pdf

Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1928-1953, the author provides a sympathetic understanding of the Modern Movement's architectural role in reshaping the fabric and structure of British metropolitan cities in the post-war period and traces the links between the experience of British modernists and the wider international modern movement.

Author : Neil Levine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215466785

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Modern Architecture by Neil Levine Pdf

In this work, esteemed architectural historian Neil Levine investigates the complex history of representation from the 18th to the 20th century. Using the lens of a continuous theoretical argument, Levine provides a detailed survey and critical analysis of major works by a host of modern architects.

Author : Allen Cunningham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135809287

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Modern Movement Heritage by Allen Cunningham Pdf

This collection of essays serves as an introduction to modern architectural heritage and the specific problems related to the conservation of modern structures. It covers policy, planning and construction. A selection of case studies elaborates on these issues and illustrates how problems have been addressed. This volume celebrates the first 5 years of DoCoMoMo's role and influence in this important area of building conservation.

Author : Anthony Vidler
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262261241

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Histories of the Immediate Present by Anthony Vidler Pdf

How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism—Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri—advanced specific versions of modernism. Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the Second World War, when architectural historians began to assess the legacy of the avant-gardes in order to construct a coherent narrative of modernism's development, they were inevitably influenced by contemporary concerns. In Histories of the Immediate Present, Anthony Vidler examines the work of four historians of architectural modernism and the ways in which their histories were constructed as more or less overt programs for the theory and practice of design in a contemporary context. Vidler looks at the historical approaches of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri, and the specific versions of modernism advanced by their historical narratives. Vidler shows that the modernism conceived by Kaufmann was, like the late Enlightenment projects he revered, one of pure, geometrical forms and elemental composition; that of Rowe saw mannerist ambiguity and complexity in contemporary design; Banham's modernism took its cue from the aspirations of the futurists; and the “Renaissance modernism” of Tafuri found its source in the division between the technical experimentation of Brunelleschi and the cultural nostalgia of Alberti. Vidler's investigation demonstrates the inevitable collusion between history and design that pervades all modern architectural discourse—and has given rise to some of the most interesting architectual experiments of the postwar period.

Author : Vincent Scully
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691074429

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Modern Architecture and Other Essays by Vincent Scully Pdf

Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made. This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is characteristically Scully--provocative, yet precise in detail and observation, written with passionate clarity. They document Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi. In the tradition of great intellectual biographies, this finely made book chronicles our most influential architectural historian and critic. It is a gift to architecture and its history.

Author : Peter Blundell Jones,Eamonn Canniffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780750663748

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Modern Architecture Through Case Studies, 1945-1990 by Peter Blundell Jones,Eamonn Canniffe Pdf

In this text, Peter Blundell Jones and Eamonn Canniffe detail a new approach to the understanding of modern architecture by using case studies to explore the themes and diversity of architecture from the 1945 to 1990.

Author : Susan Macdonald,Kyle Normandin,Bob Kindred
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1138405310

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Conservation of Modern Architecture by Susan Macdonald,Kyle Normandin,Bob Kindred Pdf

The majority of buildings of merit built before the Second World War have been highlighted as worthy of protection, yet there is much indifference and even hostility towards many important post-war buildings. This book examines the philosophical and practical issues surrounding the conservation of modern buildings.

Author : Donald Leslie Johnson,Donald Langmead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136640636

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Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture by Donald Leslie Johnson,Donald Langmead Pdf

Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture is an indispensable reference book for the scholar, student, architect or layman interested in the architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture. The book is amply illustrated and features the most prominent and influential people in 20th-century modernist architecture including Wright, Eisenman, Mies van der Rohe and Kahn. It describes the milieu in which they practiced their art and directs readers to information on the life and creative activities of these founding architects and their disciples. The profiles of individual architects include critical analysis of their major buildings and projects. Each profile is completed by a comprehensive bibliography.