Download or read book In What Style Should We Build written by Heinrich Hubsch and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-07-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.

Download or read book Walter Gropius 1883 1969 written by Gilbert Lupfer and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and educated in Germany, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) belongs to the select group of architects that massively influenced the international development of modern architecture. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, Gropius made inestimable contributions to his field, to the point that knowing his work is crucial to understanding Modernism. His early buildings, such Fagus Boot-Last Factory and the Bauhaus Building in Dessau, with their use of glass and industrial features, are still indispensable points of reference. After his emigration to the United States, he influenced the education of architects there and became, along with Mies van der Rohe, a leading proponent of the International Style.

Download or read book Modern Architecture written by Otto Wagner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, Otto Wagner's "Modern Architecture" shocked the European architectural community with its impassioned plea for an end to eclecticism and for a "modern" style suited to contemporary needs and ideals, utilizing the nascent constructional technologies and materials. Through the combined forces of his polemical, pedagogical, and professional efforts, this determined, newly appointed professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts emerged in the late 1890s - along with such contemporaries as Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow and Louis Sullivan in Chicago - as one of the leaders of the revolution soon to be identified as the "Modern Movement." Wagner's historic manifesto is now presented in a new English translation - the first in almost ninety years - based on the expanded 1902 text and noting emendations made to the 1896, 1898, and 1914 editions. In his introduction, Dr. Harry Mallgrave examines Wagner's tract against the backdrop of nineteenth-century theory, critically exploring the affinities of Wagner's revolutionary élan with the German eclectic debate of the 1840s, the materialistic tendencies of the 1870s and 1880s, and the emerging cultural ideology of modernity. Modern Architecture is one of those rare works in the literature of architecture that not only proclaimed the dawning of a new era, but also perspicaciously and cogently shaped the issues and the course of its development; it defined less the personal aspirations of one individual and more the collective hopes and dreams of a generation facing the sanguine promise of a new century

Download or read book The Transparent State written by Deborah Ascher Barnstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the transformation of transparency as a metaphor in West German political thought to an analogy for democratic architecture, this bookquestions the prevailing assumption in German architectural circles that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility and greater democracy. The Transparent State traces the development of transparency in German political and architectural culture, tying this lineage to the relationship between culture and national identity, a connection that began before unification of the German state in the eighteenth century and continues today. The Weimar Republic and Third Reich periods are examined although the focus is on the postwar period, looking at the use of transparency in the three projects for a national parliament - the 1949 Bundestag project by Hans Schwippert, the 1992 Bundestag building by Gunter Behnisch and the 1999 Reichstag renovation by Norman Foster. Transparency is an important issue in contemporary architectural practice; this book will appeal to both the practising architect and the architectural historian.

Download or read book Otto Wagner written by Harry Mallgrave and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-07-11 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore the parameters of Wagner's rich literary and architectural creations.

Download or read book Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century written by Stanford Anderson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-08-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete story of Behrens' contribution to the history oftwentieth-century architecture.

Download or read book An Engineer Imagines written by Peter Rice and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited reissue of the autobiography of Peter Rice, one of the main structural engineers behind the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre, the Menil Collection and Lloyd's of London. 'I am an engineer. Often people will call me an 'architect engineer' as a compliment. It is meant to signify a quality of engineer who is more imaginative and design-orientated than a normal engineer... To call an engineer an 'architect engineer' because he comes up with unusual or original solutions is essentially to misunderstand the role of the engineer in society.' An Engineer Imagines is a rare look into the professional creativity and philosophy of Peter Rice, who was widely acclaimed as the greatest structural engineer of his generation. He was a man who, in Renzo Piano's words, could design structures 'like a pianist who can play with his eyes shut'. Working with many of the world's greatest architects on buildings that became icons of contemporary architecture, he brought a uniquely poetic feeling to his work. Joining Ove Arup & Partners in 1956, Rice had heard that 'it was a place where an oddball could fit in.' Taking on Arup's theory of Total Design to heart, Rice writes about the role of the engineer in society, and how he himself applied his creativity to various projects. He admits he became an engineer by accident, tentatively feeling his way through a career without a natural instinct. But as he takes you through each of his projects, one-by-one, you can trace his development from graduate to veteran. Written in clear and poetic language, Rice's autobiography is perfect for those who want to better understand postwar buildings, our concrete environment, or are budding students of engineering and architecture.

Download or read book Russia Europe America written by MENDELSON and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 1989-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Free University Berlin written by Gabriel Feld and published by Exemplary Projects. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlin Free University is an imagination of what a building might be - a building designed to function as a piece of the city, adapting to the needs of its users while generating opportunities for social interaction. The university offers a window onto the politicized and optimistic discourse of the Sixties and Seventies, but at the same time illuminates contemporary debates around large projects of infrastructure and public space. This extensive study of the building combines texts with a visual survey containing specifically commissioned photographs as well as archive material, plans and construction details.

Download or read book Czech Cubism written by Alexander von Vegesack and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Czech Cubism is the most complete realization of the cubist movement in the arts, and this exhaustive catalogue for an exhibition begun in 1991 at the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, and concluding at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, April-August 1993, presents an extraordinary collection thro

Download or read book Mies van der Rohe written by Yehuda E. Safran and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few architects have had as decisive an influence on 20th-century design as Mies van der Rohe. Despite the importance of Mies' work, it has been somewhat neglected in recent publications. This book proposes a revisiting of his built works through new photographs and material from the MoMA's Mies van der Rohe Archive.List of works featured: Riehl House, PotsdamPerls House, BerlinErnst Werner House, BerlinAfrikanischerstrasse Housing, BerlinWeissenhofsiedlung ApartmentBuilding, StuttgartEsters House, KrefeldLange House, KrefeldGerman Pavilion, BarcelonaTugendhat House, BrnoFarnsworth House, PlanoS. R. Crown Hall, ChicagoLake Shore Drive Apartments, ChicagoCommonwealth PromenadeApartments, ChicagoSeagram Building, New YorkLafayette Park, Detroit2400 Lakeview Apartments, ChicagoSocial Service AdministrationBuilding, ChicagoNeue National Gallerie, BerlinBrown Wing, HoustonIBM Regional Office Building, Chicago

Download or read book Modern Architecture written by Kenneth Frampton and published by Thames and Hudson Limited. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition, Kenneth Frampton has added a new section that explores in detail the modernist tradition in architecture across the globe in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He examines the varied ways in which architects are not only responding to the geographical, climatic, material and cultural contexts of their buildings, but also pursuing distinct lines of approach that emphasize topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality habitat and civic form. It remains an essential book for all students of architecture and architectural history.

Download or read book Next written by Alison Morris and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume catalogue of this year's Venice Architecture Biennial, brings together some of the most important current projects from the world's top architects. The architects literally range from A to Z, from Tadao Ando to Peter Zumthor, and the works covered will shape the face of the built environment for decades to come. Like the catalog, the show itself is divided into two parts, the first, exhibited in the historic Venice Arsenale, features 100 designs from around the world that are currently under construction, presented in the form of large-scale models and prototypes. These designs are grouped together by building type--housing, museums, skyscrapers, office and workplace design, media companies and facilities, performing arts, commercial design, educational facilities, religious architecture, and master plans. The other part of the exhibition is in the various national pavilions, where architects have interpreted and presented work in their own way. Some consist only of projects built in a particular country, some only of work by architects born in that country. The approaches are as varied as the countries themselves. Combined, they provide a spectacular preview of the future of design. From master plans to individual houses, the works exhibited cover the gamut of architectural design. For anyone interested in the future of architecture, Next, the catalog of this exhibition, will be an essential reference for years to come. A partial list of architects includes: Tadao Ando Shigeru Ban Lab Architecture Studio UN Studio (Ben van Berkel) Bolles-Wilson Skidmore Owings & Merrill David Chipperfield Architects Odile Decq Diener & Diener Diller &Scofidio Peter Eisenman Norman Foster & Partners Frank Gehry Gregotti Associati Zaha Hadid Herzog & De Meuron Steven Holl Arata Isozaki Toyo Ito Future Systems Kohn Pedersen Fox O.M.A. Rem Koolhaas Daniel Libeskind MVRDV Morphosis Richard Meier & Partners Jean Nouvel John Pawson Renzo Piano Coop Himmelb(l)au Richard Rogers Alvaro Siza Bernard Tschumi Tod Williams Billie Tsien Peter Zumthor Ettore Sottsass Morphosis Ten Arquitectos

Download or read book Architecture Experience and Thought written by Mark Cousins and published by AA Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Fretton's architecture practice is closer than most to the London art world. Dramatic and provisional, it contains a subversive sense of street art that seems inimical to architecture. A central concern is with the relationship between people and the material world. "Architecture, Experience and Thought" explores these themes in six recent buildings by Fretton (some completed, some frozen at proposal stage): the Sway Centre for Visual Arts, Quay Arts Centre, Laban Centre for Dance, Open Hand Studios and two houses. Critical assessements of the work are provided by Mark Cousins and Kenneth Frampton.

Download or read book Mies Van Der Rohe 1886 1969 written by Claire Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the master of the modern minimalist, Mies van der Rohe, one of the defining and most hotly debated tastemakers of the twentieth century. In pursuit of elemental truth, van der Rohe crafted an "almost nothing" architecture, criticized by some as bland, extolled by others as the paradigm of purity.

Download or read book Room 606 written by Michael Sheridan and published by Phaidon Press Limited. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is organized in thematic chapters, broken down into three sections, which each examine room 606 as a microcosm of the SAS House; reconstruct the original building; and trace the connections between Jacobsen's masterpiece and his other works, from buildings to household objects.

Download or read book The Weissenhofsiedlung written by Karin Kirsch and published by Axel Menges. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental significance of the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart for the history of early modern architecture should not be underestimated. Almost all the influential architects of the 20th century built their proposed solutions in response to the theme "a home for modern city dwellers" on the beautifully located slope on the north side of Stuttgart. The choice of architects and the fact that a project of this type could be implemented at all so few years after World War I and the inflation, is one of the outstanding characteristics of this building exhibition". The German Werkbund is aware, and points out most emphatically that so important a task can only be successful and have a major impact if it is not only carried out in a technically flawless manner but also creates trend-setting architectonic solutions. The Werkbund therefore.