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Book The International Style

Download or read book The International Style written by Henry Russell Hitchcock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most influential work of architectural criticism and history of the twentieth century, now available in a handsomely designed new edition.

Book International Style

Download or read book International Style written by Hasan-Uddin Khan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The International Style

Download or read book The International Style written by Terence Riley and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ter gelegenheid van een tentoonstelling in de Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery, Buell Hall van 9 maart tot 2 mei 1992.

Book The Roots of International Style Architecture

Download or read book The Roots of International Style Architecture written by Lawrence Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Architecture in Interwar Japan

Download or read book International Architecture in Interwar Japan written by Ken Tadashi Ōshima and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book From Bauhaus to Our House

Download or read book From Bauhaus to Our House written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The International Style

Download or read book The International Style written by Terence Riley and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ter gelegenheid van een tentoonstelling in de Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery, Buell Hall van 9 maart tot 2 mei 1992.

Book International Style

Download or read book International Style written by Hasan-Uddin Khan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces various currents in twentieth century architecture that shared an international outlook and pursues inquiry from both European and North American perspectives--Cover.

Book Building Character

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles L. Davis II
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2019-09-06
  • ISBN : 0822986639
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Building Character written by Charles L. Davis II and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Architecture of Richard Neutra

Download or read book The Architecture of Richard Neutra written by Arthur Drexler and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le style international

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  • Author : Henry-Russell Hitchcock
  • Publisher : Editions Parenthèses
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9782863646250
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Le style international written by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and published by Editions Parenthèses. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C'est quelque temps après la célèbre exposition du Museum of Modern Art de New York " Modern Architecture International Exhibition ", qu'a paru en 1932 le livre de Henry-Russell Hitchcock et Philip Johnson The International Style : Architecture since 1922 qui en constitue le prolongement durable. Il s'agissait de faire connaître au public américain les développements récents de l'avant-garde notamment européenne; les auteurs avaient pu observer lors de voyages les nouvelles recherches de Alvar Aalto, André Lurçat, E. G. Asplund, Erich Mendelsohn, Erik Bryggman, Hans Scharoun, J. J. P. Oud, Josef Albers, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Otto Eisler ou Walter Gropius qui le premier avait déjà réuni en 1925 les exemples récents les plus significatifs de l'architecture européenne et nord-américaine. Le projet du livre, s'attachant à illustrer et à défendre l'architecture moderne d'avant-garde, participait d'un mouvement général qui tendait à une codification architecturale. Ainsi le Style International est défini à partir de trois principes : l'accent mis sur l'effet de volume plutôt que de masse, la régularité par opposition à la symétrie, et le refus de l'ornement surajouté au profit des qualités intrinsèques des matériaux et des proportions. Evoquant le programme du Bauhaus, le terme " international " renvoie aux aspirations universalisantes des avant-gardes européennes, à leur souci de privilégier les solutions collectives sur les actes créateurs individuels, à leur volonté d'inscrire l'architecture dans une dimension socialisante et politique au sens large du terme. Par opposition, le terme " style " induit les aspects formels, voire formalistes de l'architecture d'avant-garde. Ce livre qui a fait l'objet de plusieurs rééditions accompagnées de préfaces ou de postfaces réactualisées de la part des deux auteurs a été reçu comme un véritable manifeste et il conserve tout son intérêt historique quant à la connaissance de la pensée architecturale dans l'entre-deux-guerres. Approuvé ou contesté, The International Style demeure un des textes majeurs pour comprendre l'architecture du XXe siècle.

Book Modern Architecture in Mexico City

Download or read book Modern Architecture in Mexico City written by Kathryn E. O'Rourke and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern buildings intended to convey Mexico's unique cultural character. By midcentury these architects and their students had rewritten the country's architectural history and transformed the capital into a metropolis where new buildings that evoked pre-conquest, colonial, and International Style architecture coexisted. Through an exploration of schools, a university campus, a government ministry, a workers' park, and houses for Diego Rivera and Luis Barragan, Kathryn O'Rourke offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. This book demonstrates why creating a distinctively Mexican architecture captivated architects whose work was formally dissimilar, and how that concern became central to the profession.

Book Towards a New Architecture

Download or read book Towards a New Architecture written by Le Corbusier and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering manifesto by founder of "International School." Technical and aesthetic theories, views of industry, economics, relation of form to function, "mass-production split," and much more. Profusely illustrated.

Book Modern Architecture

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

Book The International Style

Download or read book The International Style written by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Angeles Modern

Download or read book Los Angeles Modern written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birthplace of American modernism, Los Angeles is the epicenter for a new way of living for the last one hundred years, as manifested in its cutting-edge architecture and design. With roots in the innovative houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene & Greene, and Rudolph Schindler in the early twentieth century, this constantly evolving city became a crucible of modern living. Inspired by the International Style, architects and designers in Los Angeles developed their own individual styles with a rare sensitivity to site, landscape, and human scale. This brand of modernism, blurring the boundaries of indoors and outdoors, has since been imitated from Seattle to Sydney. Acclaimed architecture and design photographer Tim Street-Porter captures the best Modernist architecture of Los Angeles, from the seminal Neutra houses to the idiosynchratic structures by Frank Gehry. With iconic buildings by Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Charles and Ray Eames, and Oscar Niemeyer, among others, L.A. Modern presents the full spectrum of Los Angeles modernism in gorgeous new color photography.

Book Montgomery Modern  Modern Architecture in Montgomery County  Maryland  1930   1979

Download or read book Montgomery Modern Modern Architecture in Montgomery County Maryland 1930 1979 written by Clare Lise Kelly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated reference guide to the history of modern architecture in Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1930 to 1979, with an inventory of key buildings and communities, and biographical sketches of practitioners including architects, landscape architects, planners and developers.