Main entry:

Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-2024

Title & Author:

The necessity of artifice / Joseph Rykwert.

Publication:

London : Academy Eds., 1982.

Description:

143 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Series:

Ideas in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Meaning and building -- The modern movement in Italian architecture -- The sitting position -- a question of method -- The Corinthian order -- The dark side of the Bauhaus -- Two houses by Eileen Gray -- The necessity of artifice -- The nefarious influence on modern architecture of the neo-classical architects Boullée and Durand -- Adolf Loos: the new vision -- The 15th Triennale -- Art as things seen -- One way of thinking about a house -- Two-dimensional art for two-dimensional man: on Klein and Manzoni -- Ornament is no crime -- Learning from the street -- Lodoli on function and representation -- Semper and the conception of style -- The purpose of ceremonies.

Subject:

Architecture.
Architectural design.
Art.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Architecture, Modern.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux.
Design architectural.
architecture (discipline)
architectural ornament.
fine arts (discipline)
works of art.
Ästhetik
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Bauornament
Geschichte
Philosophie

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung

Added entries:

Ideas in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 26730
Call No.: 0005461
Status: Available