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This volume is a nuanced intellectual history of architectural innovation in California between 1920 and 1970. It demonstrates how this prolific era of modern architecture was propelled by divergent views about the dynamic between interior and exterior, the idea of permanence, and the extent to which architects could exercise control over the inhabitants of their structures.
Nothing permanent: Modern architecture in California
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This volume is a nuanced intellectual history of architectural innovation in California between 1920 and 1970. It demonstrates how this prolific era of modern architecture was propelled by divergent views about the dynamic between interior and exterior, the idea of permanence, and the extent to which architects could exercise control over the inhabitants of their structures.
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Modern architecture is inseparably linked with the Industrial Revolution. Industrially manufactured materials such as iron, steel, reinforced concrete, glass, asbestos, and later also plastics, have helped to make architecture modern. The Industrial Revolution also set planetary warming in motion. Thus, it is not far-fetched to claim that there are also correlations(...)
Modern architecture: A planetary warming history
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Modern architecture is inseparably linked with the Industrial Revolution. Industrially manufactured materials such as iron, steel, reinforced concrete, glass, asbestos, and later also plastics, have helped to make architecture modern. The Industrial Revolution also set planetary warming in motion. Thus, it is not far-fetched to claim that there are also correlations between modern architecture and planetary warming. This book is a rough sketch of a proposed history of modern architecture since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It aims to break away from the established neural networks of the profession’s collective memory of how modern architecture’s history has unfolded, and offers the beginning of a rewiring: by introducing new actors, and highlighting ideas and projects that deal with climate and environment, while relegating some of the usual stars of modernism and postmodernism to the background.
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From metal-clad houses to skyscrapers, aluminium’s futuristic image became increasingly prominent in American architecture during the 20th century, influencing everything from roadside diners built in the Googie style to later postmodernism. This book features a selection of American and Japanese architectural precedents built during the transitional period from modern to(...)
Ex-dreams: The alternative mid-century architecture
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From metal-clad houses to skyscrapers, aluminium’s futuristic image became increasingly prominent in American architecture during the 20th century, influencing everything from roadside diners built in the Googie style to later postmodernism. This book features a selection of American and Japanese architectural precedents built during the transitional period from modern to postmodern architecture, depicted in photographs, drawings, illustrations, and even cartoons. Deepening an understanding of these complex trends is an essay by Tomoyuki Gondo, plus interviews and discussions with various experts in the field such as Lloyd Khan, Victor Newlove, and Seng Kuan.
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Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future is a reader on the relationship between modernism and the project of modernisation in architecture, as well as the intertwining of both in the context of colonialism and decolonisation. It focuses on the dual topics of the relationship between the post-war aesthetic regime of modernism and the project of(...)
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Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the past, rebellions for the future
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Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future is a reader on the relationship between modernism and the project of modernisation in architecture, as well as the intertwining of both in the context of colonialism and decolonisation. It focuses on the dual topics of the relationship between the post-war aesthetic regime of modernism and the project of modernization in architecture and urban planning, as well as on the highly charged intertwining of both in the context of colonialism and decolonization. It is based on the exhibition In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After , which traced these connected histories of modern architecture and urban planning in colonial northern Africa and Europe, and was first exhibited in 2008 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany. The book reflects contemporary research into architectural modernism and colonialism, and utilizes the thesis of “negotiated modernism” to initiate new debates on conceptions of modernism and, inevitably, postmodernism in an interdisciplinary context.
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Histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme modernes: 3. De Brasilia au post-modernisme 1940-1991
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Cette publication montre et explique l'habitat humain dans ses réalisations et ses projets, de l'aube des temps contemporains jusqu'à nos jours. Une irremplaçable synthèse illustrée, comprenant une chronologie générale, une bibliographie et un index des noms cités.
Histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme modernes: 3. De Brasilia au post-modernisme 1940-1991
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Cette publication montre et explique l'habitat humain dans ses réalisations et ses projets, de l'aube des temps contemporains jusqu'à nos jours. Une irremplaçable synthèse illustrée, comprenant une chronologie générale, une bibliographie et un index des noms cités.
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Modern views: inspired by the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the Philip Johnson Glass House
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Mies van der Rohe’s 1941–45 Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s 1947 Glass House in New Caanan, Connecticut: two haikus of glass and concrete that rewrote the history of modern residential architecture. Much ink has already been spilled on the subject by critics and historians intent on deconstructing our notions of domesticity; however these two masterpieces have also(...)
Modern views: inspired by the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the Philip Johnson Glass House
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Mies van der Rohe’s 1941–45 Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s 1947 Glass House in New Caanan, Connecticut: two haikus of glass and concrete that rewrote the history of modern residential architecture. Much ink has already been spilled on the subject by critics and historians intent on deconstructing our notions of domesticity; however these two masterpieces have also taken on lives of their own in the minds of countless artists, architects, and designers. They have inspired nearly ninety creations for an exclusive project with the National Historic Preservation Trust, collected here in Modern Views . With an introduction by critic Paul Goldberger and essays by Phyllis Lambert and Sylvia Lavin; contributors include David Adjaye, Tadao Ando, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Maira Kalman, Annie Leibowitz, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Rafael Viñoly, among others.
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Après la cité antique, la ville médiévale, après l'espace urbain de la Renaissance, le XIXe siècle apporte un nouveau changement. L'architecture et l'urbanisme deviennent les agents et les serviteurs de la révolution industrielle, celle du fer et du charbon, du béton et de l'électricité. Les hommes bâtissent alors de nouvelles villes en un bouleversement de styles et(...)
Histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme modernes: 1. idéologies et pionniers 1800-1910
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Après la cité antique, la ville médiévale, après l'espace urbain de la Renaissance, le XIXe siècle apporte un nouveau changement. L'architecture et l'urbanisme deviennent les agents et les serviteurs de la révolution industrielle, celle du fer et du charbon, du béton et de l'électricité. Les hommes bâtissent alors de nouvelles villes en un bouleversement de styles et d'habitudes qui prennent parfois les couleurs de l'utopie... Ce volume montre et explique l'habitat humain dans ses réalisations et ses projets, de l'aube des temps contemporains jusqu'à nos jours. Une irremplaçable synthèse illustrée, comprenant un index des noms cités.
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De l'influence des plasticiens à celle des ingénieurs, de l'urbanisme rationaliste (Le Corbusier, Gropius) à l'apport des pays nordiques, de l'architecture américaine (F. L. Wright) au développement d'un style international, tout ce qui préside au devenir de la cité moderne et de notre propre environnement est évoqué dans ce deuxième volume. Les trois volumes de(...)
Histoire de l'architecure et de l'urbanisme modernes, tome 2
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De l'influence des plasticiens à celle des ingénieurs, de l'urbanisme rationaliste (Le Corbusier, Gropius) à l'apport des pays nordiques, de l'architecture américaine (F. L. Wright) au développement d'un style international, tout ce qui préside au devenir de la cité moderne et de notre propre environnement est évoqué dans ce deuxième volume. Les trois volumes de l'Histoire de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme modernes montrent et expliquent l'habitat humain dans ses réalisations et ses projets, de l'aube des temps contemporains jusqu'à nos jours. Une irremplaçable synthèse illustrée, comprenant un index des noms cités.
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Modernidad tropical
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From the nineteen-twenties on, Latin America became a suitable terrain in which to apply the ideal embodied by the Modern Movement. This period is approached in the works of the Venezuelan artist Alexander Apostol by exploring the remnants of that ideal of modernity from a critical standpoint. Through the texts by the architect Juan Herreros and the art critics and(...)
Modernidad tropical
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From the nineteen-twenties on, Latin America became a suitable terrain in which to apply the ideal embodied by the Modern Movement. This period is approached in the works of the Venezuelan artist Alexander Apostol by exploring the remnants of that ideal of modernity from a critical standpoint. Through the texts by the architect Juan Herreros and the art critics and curators Julieta Gonzalez and Cuauhtemoc Medina, various aspects of his oeuvre are analyzed alongside the context in which it arose. Whether from the perspective of architecture, art history or a political analysis of contemporary Venezuela, each author contributes to a comprehensive study of Alexander Apostol's production.
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Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-four years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he was a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists(...)
The Bauhaus group : six masters of modernism
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Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-four years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he was a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as with these figures' lesser-known wives and girlfriends. In thisgroup biography, Weber brings to life the pioneering art school in Germany's Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s, and captures the spirit and flair with which these Bauhaus geniuses lived, as well as their consuming goal of making art and architecture.
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