Author: Henry Russell Hitchcock
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315189
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The most influential work of architectural criticism and history of the twentieth century, now available in a handsomely designed new edition.
Author: Hasan-Uddin Khan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836510523
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In the 1930s, the term International Style came into use to describe a new form of architecture evolved from Bauhaus and its conviction that "form follows function." This book traces the exciting evolution of a style while examining the individual and regional forms it took.
Author: Tom Wolfe
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 142992425X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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After critiquing—and infuriating—the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our Haus. In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass and steel box designed buildings that have influenced—and infected—America’s cities.
Author: Richard Hollis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300106763
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Originally published: London: Laurence King Pub., 2006.
Author: David Scott Wilson-Okamura
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107241847
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long standing questions about Edmund Spenser's style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.
Author: Charles L. Davis II
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986639
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of “race” and “style” as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists—Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze—to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.
Author: Barbara Radice
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500273777
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Founded in 1981, the international group of architects, Memphis, shook the design world to its foundations. Based in Italy and led by Ettore Sottsass, it overturned and re-shaped the pre-suppositions on which the production of so-called Modern Design is based. It became the almost mythical symbol of the New Design. Laughing out loud at our culture and at itself, Memphis pulled out all stops when it came to colour, pattern, decoration and ornamentation.
Author: Ken Tadashi Ōshima
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Following World War I, a generation of young architects in Japan took part in a movement toward "international architecture," or kokusai kenchiku, designing houses for people who blended Japanese and Western customs in their daily lives, and public buildings--from schools and hospitals to weather stations and golf clubhouses--that encompassed modern forms and new materials, especially earthquake-resistant reinforced concrete, yet systhesized the new with the old.--Ken Tadashi Oshima is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Washington.
Author: Jeremy Howard
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719041617
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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This critical survey of the Art Nouveau movement reveals the diversity of this style across the breadth of the European continent. With the inclusion of Eastern Europe and the full range of artistic media, the book shows how this movement changed the face of European art and design from Paris to Prague. Clearly structured by country, it traces the emergence of Art Nouveau, highlighting the particular interpretations of the style in each country. Countries covered include: Belgium; Spain; Britain; Austria; Hungary; and Russia. Each chapter contains sections on political and cultural contexts, specific visual characteristics and key artists and designers. It analyzes the contribution of both well-known artists and designers such as Gaudi; Van de Velde; Mackintosh; and Mucha, and brings to light many others whose contributions have been largely inaccessible. With a bibliography and glossary, this text should provide a useful introduction to this subject.
Author: Bruce Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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