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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Architectural Reprint
Author: Arts & Architecture, 1945-1954
Author: David TraversPublisher:
ISBN: 9783822826782
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Limited to 5,000 numbered copies, this collection is a comprehensive record of midcentury American architecture. TASCHEN presents its facsimile edition of John Entenza's groundbreaking magazine Arts & Architecture (1945-1954), which launched the Case Study House Program.
The Architectural Reprint
Author: The Architecture of Failure
Author: Douglas MurphyPublisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780990227
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Against those who considerarchitecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an original reading of the earliest origins of modernism, the Architecture of Failure exposes the ways in which failure has been suppressed, ignored and denied in the way we design our cities. It examines the 19th century fantasy architecture of the iron and glass exhibition palaces, strange, unprecedented, dream-like structures, almost all now lost, existing only as melancholy archive fragments; it traces the cultural legacy of these buildings through the heroics of the early 20th century, post-war radicals and recent developments, discussing related themes in art, literature, politics and philosophy. Critiquing the capitalist symbolism of the self-styled contemporary avant-garde, the book outlines a new history of contemporary architecture, and attempts to recover a radical approach to understanding what we build. Douglas Murphy blogs at http://www.youyouidiot.blogspot.com/
Gibbs' Book of Architecture
Author: James GibbsPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486142345
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Gibbs's legendary 1728 folio includes perspectives and blueprints for such magnificent commissions as London's St. Martin in the Fields; the Senate House of the University of Cambridge; plus fine drawings of marble cisterns, iron gates, funeral monuments, and more.
Writing About Architecture
Author: Alexandra LangePublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616890533
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Extraordinary architecture addresses so much more than mere practical considerations. It inspires and provokes while creating a seamless experience of the physical world for its users. It is the rare writer that can frame the discussion of a building in a way that allows the reader to see it with new eyes. Writing About Architecture is a handbook on writing effectively and critically about buildings and cities. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a significant essay written by a renowned architecture critic, followed by a close reading and discussion of the writer's strategies. Lange offers her own analysis using contemporary examples as well as a checklist of questions at the end of each chapter to help guide the writer. This important addition to the Architecture Briefs series is based on the author's design writing courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. Lange also writes a popular online column for Design Observer and has written for Dwell, Metropolis, New York magazine, and The New York Times. Writing About Architecture includes analysis of critical writings by Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs. Architects covered include Marcel Breuer, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Field Operations, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Frederick Law Olmsted, SOM, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
Author: Louis I. KahnVisualizing Architecture Volume 4
Author: Alex HogrefePublisher:
ISBN: 9780991382927
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An architecture portfolio designed by Alex Hogrefe describing 4 original projects with a focus on unique representational techniques and styles.
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