Download or read book Modern Architecture and Expressionism written by Dennis Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Architecture in Europe written by Dennis J. De Witt and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Architecture of the 20th Century written by Jürgen Tietz and published by Konemann. This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of architectural trends across the world in the last century - Neoclassicism - Architecture after the First World War - American architecture - Globalization of modern architecture - High-tech and postmodern architecture - The Rationalist tradition in Italy - Architecture in the 21st century.
Download or read book The Meaning of Modern Architecture written by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings. This method was first developed as scholars realized that the new abstract art appearing needed to be analysed differently than the previous figurative works. Since architecture experienced a similar development in the 1920s and 30s, this book argues that the empathetic method can also be used in architectural interpretation. While most existing scholarship tends to focus on formal and functional analysis, this book proposes that Modern architecture is too diverse to be reduced to a few common formal or ornamental features. Instead, by relying on the viewer’s innate psycho-physiological perceptive abilities, sensual and intuitive understandings of composition, form, and space are emphasized. These aspects are especially significant because Modern Architecture lacks the traditional stylistic signs. Including building analyses, it shows how, by visually reducing cubical forms and spaces to linear configurations, the exteriors and interiors of Modern buildings can be interpreted via human perceptive abilities as dynamic movement systems commensurate with the new industrial transportation age. This reveals an inner necessity these buildings express about themselves and their culture, rather than just an explanation of how they are assembled and how they should be used. The case studies highlight the contrasts between buildings designed by different architects, rather than concentrating on the few features that relate them to the zeitgeist. It analyses the buildings directly as the objects of study, not indirectly, as designs filtered through a philosophical or theoretical discourse. The book demonstrates that, with technology and science affecting culture
Download or read book The Early Sketches of German Architect Erich Mendelsohn 1887 1953 written by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erich Mendelsohn was considered one of the most successful modern architects in Germany during the 1920s. This volume contains a catalogue of his early sketches. It establishes a chronological sequence of the sketches, and furnishes a clear explanation of his creative background. A detailed evaluation of his relationship to the Blue Rider group supplies a source for his Expressionist intentions and design theory. Mendelsohn's own statements, from papers and letters are also examined.
Download or read book Expressionist Architecture written by Wolfgang Pehnt and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Architecture written by Alan Colquhoun and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the movement fron Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the megastructures of the 1960s, revealing the often contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition.
Download or read book Transformations in Modern Architecture written by Arthur Drexler and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 1979 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bruno Zevi on Modern Architecture written by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Expressionist Architecture written by Wolfgang Pehnt and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism written by Kathleen James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erich Mendelsohn's buildings, erected throughout Germany between 1920 and 1932, epitomized architectural modernity for his countrymen. In this study, Kathleen James examines his department stores, office buildings and cinemas, the downtown counterparts to the famous housing projects built during the same years in Frankfurt and Berlin. Demonstrating the degree to which their dynamic presence stemmed from Mendelsohn's attention to their consumer-oriented functions, James shows Mendelsohn to be more than an Expressionist, as he is usually characterized.
Download or read book Fragments of Metropolis Rhine Ruhr written by Christoph Rauhut and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architecture of Expressionism marks the starting point of the discipline into the Golden Twenties - also in the urban cityscape of the metropolises of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This volume documents for the first time in a complete overview all the buildings in the region which still exist and shows a completely new perspective on a familiar region - a fascinating rediscovery in terms of sheer volume.
Download or read book Canadian Modern Architecture written by Elsa Lam and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends • Regional and indigenous architectural tendencies • The influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver Co-published with Canadian Architect, this comprehensive reference book is extensively illustrated and includes fifteen specially commissioned essays.
Download or read book Modern Architecture written by Alan Colquhoun and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the international modern movement in architecture Alan Colquhoun explores the complex motivations behind its revolutionary new style and assesses its triumphs and failures.
Download or read book A New History of Modern Architecture written by Colin Davies and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining a fascinating, thought-provoking and – above all – readable text with over 800 photographs, plans, and sections, this exciting new reading of modern architecture is a must for students and architecture enthusiasts alike. Organized largely as a chronology, chapters necessarily overlap to allow for the discrete examination of key themes including typologies, movements, and biographical studies, as well as the impact of evolving technology and country-specific influences.
Download or read book The Modern Functional Building written by Adolf Behne and published by Getty Research Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, organized the Arbeitsrat fur Kunst (Work council on the arts). Behne would also become an early critic of both the Werkbund and the Bauhaus. Written in 1923, Behne's Modern Functional Building clarifies the concepts of German Modernism at their very inception, especially the crucial distinctions between functionalism, rationalism, and utilitarianism. In this text, Behne advocates a functionalism that is not technocentric, but is comparable.
