The Architecture Of Edwin Maxwell Fry And Jane Drew

Author : Iain Jackson,Jessica Holland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317044857

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The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew by Iain Jackson,Jessica Holland Pdf

Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its spread into the late-colonial arena and finally, to its re-evaluation that resulted in a more expressive, formalist approach in the post-war era. This book thoroughly examines Fry and Drew's highly influential 'Tropical Architecture' in West Africa and India, whilst also discussing their British work, such as their post World War II projects for the Festival of Britain, Harlow New Town, Pilkington Brothers’ Headquarters and Coychurch Crematorium. It highlights the collaborative nature of Fry and Drew's work, including schemes undertaken with Elizabeth Denby, Walter Gropius, Denys Lasdun, Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier. Positioning their architecture, writing and educational endeavours within a wider context, this book illustrates the significant artistic and cultural contributions made by Fry and Drew throughout their lengthy careers.

Author : Maxwell Fry,Jane Drew
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9785885016834

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Tropical Architecture by Maxwell Fry,Jane Drew Pdf

In the dry and humid zones

Author : Jane Drew,Maxwell Fry,Harry L Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135018221

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Village Housing in the Tropics by Jane Drew,Maxwell Fry,Harry L Ford Pdf

Tropical Architecture, although now a highly contested and debated term, is the name given to European modern architecture that has been modified to suit the climatic and sometimes cultural context of hot countries. These hot countries were labelled ‘the tropics’ and were often European colonies, or countries that had recently won their independence. Fry & Drew’s book, written on the threshold of the end of the British Empire, was one of the first publications to offer practical advice to architects working in ‘the tropics’, based on the empirical studies they conducted whilst based in British West Africa during the Second World War. The book with its numerous illustrations, plans and easy to follow explanations became a key manual for all architects working in hot climates, and in particular those tasked with designing dwellings and small town plans. Although the Royal Engineers and Schools of Tropical Medicine had long been designing and campaigning for better planning, improved sanitation and had for example developed methods of cross-ventilation, this book became an instant hit. ‘Tropical Architecture’ suddenly bloomed into its own distinct canon, and by 1955 the Architectural Association had set up a course specialising in tropical architecture, led for a short time by Fry. Village Housing in the Tropics had a significant impact when it was written on a profession that had had little guidance on working in hot climates and on architecture students and universities who began to modify their courses to accommodate different conditions. Although from a post-colonial perspective many scholars now associate this architecture as being a continuation of the Imperial mission, this does not reduce the significance of the publication. Indeed, Tropical Architecture is regarded as being the forerunner to ‘green architecture’, developing passive low energy buildings that are tailored to suit their climate and built with local materials.

Author : Iain Jackson,Jane Drew,Maxwell Fry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 095578848X

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Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew : Tropical Source Book by Iain Jackson,Jane Drew,Maxwell Fry Pdf

Author : Jacopo Galli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8862423683

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Tropical Toolbox. Fry and Drew and the Search for an African Modernity. Ediz. Illustrata by Jacopo Galli Pdf

Author : Jacopo Galli
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788862427289

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Tropical Toolbox by Jacopo Galli Pdf

Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew are two key figures of British architecture in the second half of the twentieth century, their most important work was the book Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones, a manual compiled from the experience acquired in Ghana and Nigeria between 1949 and 1960. The manual is the formalisation of a design method specific for tropical areas, the search for a renewed rooting of modern architecture, not based on formal research or the revival of folkloric themes, but on the close relationship between environmental support and anthropic intervention. The design method has its roots in African colonial history and was the result of a long process of adaptation of Western modernist ideas to the extreme climatic conditions of the African continent. A cosmopolitan localism based on the application of science in humanistic terms and capable of combining global and local dimensions was translated into an approach that respected the deep roots of tradition while providing innovation in terms of architectural solutions.

Author : Iain Jackson,Jessica Holland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317044864

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The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew by Iain Jackson,Jessica Holland Pdf

Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its spread into the late-colonial arena and finally, to its re-evaluation that resulted in a more expressive, formalist approach in the post-war era. This book thoroughly examines Fry and Drew's highly influential 'Tropical Architecture' in West Africa and India, whilst also discussing their British work, such as their post World War II projects for the Festival of Britain, Harlow New Town, Pilkington Brothers’ Headquarters and Coychurch Crematorium. It highlights the collaborative nature of Fry and Drew's work, including schemes undertaken with Elizabeth Denby, Walter Gropius, Denys Lasdun, Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier. Positioning their architecture, writing and educational endeavours within a wider context, this book illustrates the significant artistic and cultural contributions made by Fry and Drew throughout their lengthy careers.

Author : Jane Beverly Drew,Pierre Jeanneret,Edwin Maxwell Fry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:177196047

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Documenting Chandigarh by Jane Beverly Drew,Pierre Jeanneret,Edwin Maxwell Fry Pdf

Author : Kiran Joshi
Publisher : Mapin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 189020613X

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Documenting Chandigarh by Kiran Joshi Pdf

Conceived soon after Independence, Chandigarh, the new capital for India''s Punjab province, has become a landmark of modernism and an unusual experiment in comprehensive civic design. This book records the various built elements of the city.'

Author : Stephen Hitchins
Publisher : London : Lund Humphries
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X000567789

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Fry, Drew, Knight, Creamer by Stephen Hitchins Pdf

Author : Maxwell Fry,Jane Drew
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0047200200

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Architecture and the Environment by Maxwell Fry,Jane Drew Pdf

Author : Andreas Vass
Publisher : Scheidegger & Spiess
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3858817627

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Chandigarh Redux by Andreas Vass Pdf

Chandigarh, built in the 1950s to a scheme by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret with their team of international and Indian architects, until the present day is regarded an icon of modernist urban design. Austrian artist Werner Feiersinger has recently travelled to the legendary capital of India s federal state Punjab. Inspired by Ernst Scheidegger s book "Chandigarh 1956"," " he has put together a vast pictorial account of the city s famous architecture today. This new book features some 300 of Feiersinger s photographs. With the artist s view and based on his own creative experience as a sculptor, he shows the expressive sculptural qualities of the buildings. He captures the place s vivid atmosphere and virtuosity and illustrates its continuous topicality. This artistic approach clearly distinguishes this book from previous publications on Chandigarh, most of which are of merely documentary character. The essay by Austrian architect Andreas Vass reflects on Chandigarh s history, its architectural qualities, and its future development. The title "Chandigarh Redux "refers to Francis Ford Coppola s Apocalypse Now Redux, the 2001 extended version of his epic war film of 1979. "

Author : Jane Beverly Drew,Kiran Joshi,Pierre Jeanneret,Edwin Maxwell Fry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:177196047

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Documenting Chandigarh by Jane Beverly Drew,Kiran Joshi,Pierre Jeanneret,Edwin Maxwell Fry Pdf

Author : Maxwell Fry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003807179

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Art in a Machine Age by Maxwell Fry Pdf

First published in 1969, Art in a Machine Age is based on four lectures given by Maxwell Fry at the Royal Academy in 1968 and offers an alternative approach to technocracy in the solution of major problems, especially those that concern the environment. It talks about various themes like the architecture of instinct; a conscious architect; the emotional basis of architecture; the age we live in; the pre and post war years; and the present times. It is fundamental to this book that art should be recognized as author describes it, that is, as a necessity for, and not a derivative of, life. This is a must read for students of architecture and general readers interested in art and architecture.

Author : Hamidreza Mahboubi Soufiani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000987607

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Developing Iran by Hamidreza Mahboubi Soufiani Pdf

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based ‘company town’ projects built in association with the ‘Big Three’ powers of World War II. The book’s narrative builds upon a tripartite research design that chronologically traces the formation and development of the oil, steel, and copper industries, respectively favoured by Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States in this part of the world. By applying three sets of comparative studies, the book provides critical vantage points to three different ideological design paradigms: postcolonial regionalism, socialist universalism, and rationalist modern nation building. From a global political context, the book contributes to the disclosure of new information about the geopolitical confrontation of these three nations in the Global South to increase their sphere of influence after the Second World War. Furthermore, it demonstrates how postwar architectural modernism was adopted by each power and adapted to their ideological mind frame to fulfil distinct social, cultural, political, and economic targets. This book examines multiple interconnections between architecture, politics, and industrial development by adopting a transdisciplinary approach based on comprehensive fieldwork, site surveys, and the analysis of original multilingual documents. As such, it will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, history, international relations, and Middle Eastern studies.