Title & Author:

Lessons from modernism : environmental design strategies in architecture, 1925-1970 / Kevin Bone, editor with Steven Hillyer and Sunnie Joh ; essays by Daniel A. Barber, Michael Ben-Eli, Alan Berman, Kevin Bone, David Rifkind, Carl Stein.

Publication:

New York : The Monacelli Press, 2014.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
"This publication is a development of the exhibition Lessons from Modernism, Environmental Design Considerations in 20th Century Architecture, 1925-1970, on view at the Cooper Union January 29-March 23, 2013"--T.p. verso.
The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lessons from modernism / Kevin Bone -- Reviewing modernism through the lens of sustainability / David Rifkind -- Climate map with projects -- New dwellings for Bordeau / Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret -- Open-air school / Johannes Duiker -- Night shelter for the homeless / Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Gerson Ponpeu Pinheiro -- Karuizawa summer house / Antonin Raymond -- Weekend house / Albert Frey, A. Lawrence Kocher -- Housing at Sunila Pulp Mill / Alvar Aalto -- Jacobs house I / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Houses in space / Amancio Williams -- House over the brook / Amancio Williams -- Jacobs house II / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Building for the Emprezas Gráficas o Cruizeiro / Oscar Niemeyer -- Maison Tropicale / Jean Prouvé Workshops -- Soholm 1 / Arne Jacobsen -- Bachelor flats / Bronek Katz, Reginald Vaughan -- Dexter M. Ferry Jr. cooperative house / Marcel Breuer -- Walker beach house / Paul Rudolph -- Munkegaard Elementary School / Arne Jacobsen -- Cocoon house / Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell -- Pavilion on the Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas / Affonso Eduardo Reidy -- Valéria P. Cirell house / Lina Bo Bardi -- Siedlung Halen / Atelier 5 -- School of Plastic Arts, National Arts School / Ricardo Porro -- House on a cycladic island / Iannis Xenakis -- House II in Kavouri / Constantinos Decavallas -- Vacation house on Aegina / Constantinos Decavallas -- Timeline, selected projects, 1925-1970 -- Lessons from Lessons from Modernism / Daniel A. Barber -- Modern legacy/sustainable culture / Carl Stein -- The search for a healthy living and the roots of modernism / Alan Berman -- Towards a new architecture? / Michael Ben-Eli.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

This valuable reference for today's green building movement examines twentieth-century modern architecture, including buildings by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, through the lens of sustainability.

ISBN:

9781580933841 (hbk.)
158093384X (hbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Sustainable architecture.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture durable.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur
Umweltgestaltung
Nachhaltigkeit
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture Environmental aspects

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
publications.
Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Barber, Daniel A., writer of added text.
Ben-Eli, Michael, writer of added text.
Berman, Alan, writer of added text.
Rifkind, David, 1968- writer of added text.
Stein, Carl, writer of added text.
Bone, Kevin, editor.
Hillyer, Steven, editor.
Joh, Sunnie, editor.
Bone, Kevin editor.
Hillyer, Steven
Joh, Sunnie.
Barber, Daniel A.
Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286289
Call No.: BIB 226504
Status: Available