Author: John Pollard SeddonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Progress in Art and Architecture
Author: John Pollard SeddonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Art in Progress
Author: Maarten DoormanPublisher: Peterson's
ISBN: 9789053565858
Category : Art
Languages : nl
Pages : 188
Book Description
A philosophical essay in support of the argument that progress in art is both possible and necessary.
Building a Century of Progress
Author: Lisa Diane SchrenkPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816648368
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
From the summer of 1933 to the fall of 1934, more than 38 million fairgoers visited a 3-mile stretch along Lake Michigan, home to Chicago's second World's Fair. Millions more experienced the Century of Progress International Exposition through newspaper and magazine articles, newsreels, and souvenirs. Together, all marveled at the industrial, scientific, consumer, and cultural displays, many of which were housed in fifty massive and colorful exhibition halls, the largest architectural project realized in the United States during the Great Depression. In the richly illustrated Building a Century of Progress, Lisa D. Schrenk explores the pivotal role of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair in modern American architecture. She recounts how the exposition's architectural commission promoted a broad definition of modern architecture, not relying on purely aesthetic characteristics but instead focusing on new design solutions. The fair's pavilions incorporated recently introduced building materials such as masonite and gypsum board; structural innovations (for example, the first thin-shell concrete roof and the first suspended roof structures built in the United States); and new construction processes, most notably the use of prefabrication. They also featured curiosities like the giant, constantly operating mayonnaise maker and the glass-walled House of Tomorrow, which had no operable windows. Schrenk shows how the halls' designs reflected cultural and political developments of the period, including the expanding relationships between science, industry, and government; the rise of a corporate consumer culture; and the impact of the Great Depression. Many of the designs provoked intense responses from critics and other prominent architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Adams Cram, fueling heated debates over the appropriate direction for architecture in the United States. Demonstrating the rich diversity of progressive American building design seen at the fair, Building a Century of Progress captures a crucial moment in American modernism. Lisa D. Schrenk is assistant professor of architecture and art history at Norwich University and former education director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation.
Progress
Author: Nineteenth-century Photographs and Architecture
Author: Micheline NilsenPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409448334
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Eschewing the limiting idea that nineteenth-century architecture photography merely reflects functionality, the objective of this collection is to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time. The essays hold appeal for social and cultural historians, as well as those with an interest in the fields of art history, urban geography, history of travel and tourism.Nineteenth-century photographers captured what could be seen and what they wanted to be seen. Their images informed of exploration, progress, heritage, and destruction. Architecture was a staple subject for the first generation of photographers as it patiently tolerated the long exposures of the early processes. During its formative decades photography responded to evolutionary cultural forces of market and artistic production. Photographs of architecture reflected a specific political or social context modulated through individual points of view. For this reason, the examination of each photographic image as a primary visual document and an aesthetic object rather than a technical milestone on a chronological trajectory affords a richer multi-faceted approach to the extensive and complex corpus of photographs taken by photographers all over the world. This project acknowledges the importance of technique in the early decades of photography but focuses on the thematic content of the material. It places the photography of architecture in an international context under the contemporary critical lens sharpened by theoretical and cultural examinations of the topic.
Progress(es), Theories and Practices
Author: Mário S. Ming KongPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351242687
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) - Progress(es) - Theories and Practices were compiled with the intent to establish a platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of research. It aims also to foster the awareness of and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different progress visions and readings relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design, Engineering, Social and Natural Sciences, Technology and their importance and benefits for the community at large. Considering that the idea of progress is a major matrix for development, its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.
Irving Gill
Author: Alana CoonsPublisher: Save Our Heritage Organization
ISBN: 9780980095043
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This catalog commemorates the exhibition Irving Gill: Progress & Poetry in Architecture and features essays by four San Diego experts on Gill who approach his buildings from personal hands-on experience, study, and reflection. And, in what may be the first compendium of its kind, we have also gathered the most important period writings by and about Gill and reprinted them here. Lavishly illustrated and published for the first time are historic photographs of Gill buildings made from glass slides circa 1910 that were commissioned and used by Irving Gill in his practice. The over 130-page publication includes essays by Erik Hanson, Paul and Sarai Johnson, and Roy McMakin, with the foreword by Bruce Coons, and introduction by Ann Jarmusch.
Progress in Art and Architecture
Author: John Pollard SeddonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In What Style Should We Build?
Author: Heinrich HubschPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892361999
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches
Author: George Saumarez SmithPublisher: Triglyph Books
ISBN: 9781916355439
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
George Saumarez Smith is one of Britain's foremost classical architects. His sketchbooks display a supreme mastery that goes beyond technique and assumes the status of art.