Title & Author:

Form, modernism, and history : essays in honor of Eduard F. Sekler / edited by Alexander von Hoffman.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Graduate School of Design : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1996.

Description:

xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes interview with Eduard Sekler.
"Bibliography of Eduard Franz Sekler": pages 233-240
Hawksmoor's imposing churches, an interpretation / Robin Evans -- Juan de Herrera and the "Discourse of the cubic figure" : the Lonja of Seville as cubic element / Rafael Moneo -- Semper's "Bekleidungstheorie" in Plečnik's university library of Ljublijana / Damjan Prelovšek -- Interactive realms : the bridge of San Francisco and Palazzo Sant'Elia in Caltagirone / Jorge Silvetti -- Concepts of truth and utility at the outset of the Modern Movement / Mark Angélil -- Building as a statement, the Looshaus / Friedrich Achleitner -- Orthodoxy and immanent criticism : on Josef Frank's contribution to the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung, 1926-1927 / Wilfried Wang -- Le Corbusier, the four compositions / Werner Seligmann -- Eileen Gray, architecture and the politics of leisure / Caroline Constant -- Letter to Eduard F. Sekler : reminiscences of post-war Modernism at CIAM and the GSD / Jerzy Soltan -- Structural reminiscences : the inside story of the Carpenter Center at Harvard / William Le Messurier and Daniel L. Schodek -- Collapse of planning : a case study of Delhi / Ranjit Sabikhi -- William Kent : the Vigna Madama, and landscape parks / Laurie Olin -- Between the crusader's Jerusalem and Piranesi's Rome : conflicting ideals for the city / Alex Krieger -- Woodbourne : an early garden city experiment in affordable living / Peter Rowe and Alexander von Hoffman.
Inventing a colonial landscape : the new central market in Phnom Penh / Brian Brace Taylor -- Landowning and the Villa in the social geography of the Roman territory : the location and the landscapes of the Villa Pamphilj 1645-70 / Mirka Beneš -- Three remarks : on architectural theory and practice / Henry Cobb -- New Tokyo city hall complex / Kenzo Tange -- What I learned at Harvard / Ben Weese -- Dedicated teacher / Gerald McCue.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0935617299
9780935617290

Subject:

Sekler, Eduard F. (Eduard Franz)
Sekler, Eduard F.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Historiography.
Architecture Historiography.
City planning Historiography.
Architecture.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle Historiographie.
Architecture Historiographie.
architecture (discipline)
Architecture, Modern Historiography

Form/genre:

Festschriften.
Interviews.

Added entries:

Sekler, Eduard F. (Eduard Franz)
Von Hoffman, Alexander.
Achleitner, Friedrich, 1930-
Angelil, Marc M.
Beneš, Mirka
Cobb, Henry Nichols, 1926-2020
Constant, Caroline
Evans, Robin, 1944-1993
Krieger, Alex, 1951-
Le Messurier, William
McCue, Gerald M., 1928-
Moneo, José Rafael
Olin, Laurie
Prelovšek, Damjan
Rowe, Peter G.
Sabikhi, Ranjit
Schodek, Daniel L., 1941-
Seligmann, Werner
Silvetti, Jorge
Soltan, Jerzy, 1913-2005
Tange, Kenzō, 1913-2005
Taylor, Brian Brace
Wang, Wilfried
Weese, Benjamin Horace, 1929-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191171
Call No.: NA2599. 8.S4632.F6 1996
Status: Available