Title & Author:

Architecture and design in Europe and America, 1750--2000 / edited by Abigail Harrison-Moore and Dorothy C. Rowe.

Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Description:

xix, 515 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 4

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-507) and index.
Introduction : Classifying knowledge / Dorothy C. Rowe and Abigail Harrison-Moore -- The architectural plates from the "Encyclopedie" / Denis Diderot -- The plates of the Encyclopedia / Roland Barthes -- From The Archaeology of Knowledge / Michel Foucault -- KNOWLEDGE, TASTE, AND SUBLIMITY, c. 1750-1830. Introduction / Abigail Harrison-Moore ; Palladian permeation : the villa / John Summerson ; The country house: form, function, and meaning / Dana Arnold ; Plans and elevations for the Villa of Lord Mansfield at Kenwood / Robert and James Adam ; From The Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture / Sir John Soane ; From A Description of the Villa / Horace Walpole ; Thomas Jefferson / James Ackerman ; From A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful / Edmund Burke ; On architecture and buildings / Sir Uvedale Price ; From An Analytical Inquiry into the Principle of Taste / Richard Payne Knight ; Iconography and landscape / Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove ; The plans and elevations of John Nash / John Summerson ; Architecture, Essay on Art / Etienne-Louis Boullée ; The sphere : reading a gender metaphor in the architecture of modern cults of identity / Susanne von Falkenhausen ; Karl Friedrich Schinkel / David Watkin and Tilman Millinghoff ; Reading architectural herstories : the discourses of gender / Dana Arnold -- URBANISM, REFORM, AND REVIVAL, c. 1830-1910. Introduction / Abigail Harrison-Moore and Dorothy C. Rowe ; An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England / A.W.N. Pugin ; Architecture in the Nineteenth Century : importance of method / Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc ; From Science, Industry and Art / Gottfried Semper ; The nature of Gothic / John Ruskin ; The revival of architecture / William Morris ; Some recent designs by Mr. C.F.A. Voysey ; Style / Louis Sullivan ; Ornament in architecture / Louis Sullivan ; The tall office building artistically considered / Louis Sullivan ; Plasticity / Frank Lloyd Wright ; The nature of materials / Frank Lloyd Wright ; Women and architecture / Lynne Walker ; The programmes of the Architectural Section of the École des Beaux-Arts / Annie Jacques ; Adler and Sullivan at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago / Zeynep Çelik ; Public parks and the enlargement of towns / Frederick Law Olmsted ; Paris : building a European capital under the Second Empire / Anthony Sutcliffe ; Garden cities of tomorrow / Ebenezer Howard ; Modern systems / Camillo Sitte ; Construction / Otto Wagner -- ARCHITECTURE FOR TOMORROW, c. 1910-2000. Introduction / Dorothy C. Rowe ; Ornament and crime / Adolf Loos ; Architecture / Adolf Loos ; Manifesto of Futurist architecture / Antonio Sant'Elia ; The Turbine Hall of the AEG / Peter Behrens ; The state of German architecture / Sigfried Giedion ; Programme of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar / Walter Gropius ; Letter to the younger generation / Marianne Brandt ; Space (Architecture) / László Moholy-Nagy ; Where do we stand? / Marcel Breuer ; The problem of a new architecture / Eric Mendelsohn ; The creative spirit of the world crisis / Eric Mendelsohn ; Solved problems : a demand on our building methods / Mies van der Rohe ; Explanation of the educational program / Mies van der Rohe ; Report of the De Stijl Group / Theo van Doesburg ; From Towards a new architecture / Le Corbusier ; Architecture is everything, city planning is everything / Le Corbusier ; On discovering Gaudí's architecture / Le Corbusier ; The split wall : domestic voyeurism / Beatriz Colomina ; Nine points on monumentality / Jose Luis Sert, Fernand Léger, and Sigfried Giedion ; Monumentality / Louis I. Kahn ; Reaffirmation of the aims of CIAM / Congress of International Modern Architects ; Functionalism and technology / Reyner Banham ; The death of modern architecture / Charles Jencks ; Towards a critical regionalism : six points for an architecture of resistance / Kenneth Frampton ; The pleasure of architecture / Bernard Tshumi ; Scale and span in a global digital world / Saskia Sassen.

Summary:

Surveying the history of European and American architecture and design using both historical and contemporary sources, this text brings together significant scholarship on the subject, creating a new canon for teaching purposes by introducing a thematic approach.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1405115300 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9781405115308 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
1405115319 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781405115315 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Europe.
Architecture United States.
Design Europe History.
Design United States History.
Architecture Europe History 20th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture Europe 20e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Design Europe Histoire.
Design États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture États-Unis.
Architecture
Design
Architektur
Architecture, Modern Europe History.
Architecture, Modern United States History.
Europe
United States
USA
Europa

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Harrison-Moore, Abigail.
Price, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Cilla), 1969-
Rowe, Dorothy, 1969-
Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252018
Call No.: BIB 181666
Status: Available