[PDF] Horta And The Grammar Of Art Nouveau eBook

Author : Iwan Strauven
Publisher : Mercatorfonds
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300276282

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What remains of Horta's Art Nouveau, apart from his style and typical plant-related vocabulary? Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau offers an innovative analysis of the architectural approach of Victor Horta, the Belgian architect whose creations between 1893 and 1905 were seminal for the development of Art Nouveau architecture. The first part of the book sheds a new light on the toolbox of Victor Horta by focusing on the architectural sources of one specific work, the Tassel house. It gives an insight into where and how Horta conceived his designs. The second part discusses fundamental themes of Horta's architecture, such as the rhetorical use of structure, the innovative use of materials, and the use of light in the development of the dynamic plan. The third part explores the relation between Horta's invention of Art Nouveau and the colonial enterprise of King Leopold II. This publication is illustrated with maps, plans, and unpublished photographic material commissioned by Victor Horta. Distributed for Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: Bozar, Brussels (October 2023-January 2024)

Author : Amy Catania Kulper
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2020
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 9781317148395

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There are two predominant approaches to the study of art nouveau architecture: some historians considering it to be the swan song of the great period styles, while others crediting the architects of the art nouveau with planting the seeds of Modernism, while paying aesthetic lip service to the stylistic motifs of generative nature. Consistent among these disparate historical accounts is the acceptance of an ideological rupture - the consensual certainty that art nouveau architecture represents either the end of the period styles, or the inception of Modernism. This book examines this period through the lens of Belgian architect Victor Horta's domestic interiors, and argues that the framing and conceptualization of the natural by Horta and his contemporaries constitutes both a representational and experiential continuity, seamlessly eliding the apparently disparate interests of eclectic historicism and early Modernism. Domesticated Natures examines the conditions that have contributed to this divided historiography of the art nouveau, and proposes that these attempts to interiorize and domesticate the natural world are equally present in the aesthetic, scientific, historical and philosophical discourses of the late nineteenth-century. Therefore, this architectural movement signals, not a rupture, but rather a developing understanding of the generative capacities of the natural world.

Author : David Dernie
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500343233

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An expertly written and exquisitely photographed study of the buildings of Victor Horta, a central figure of Art Nouveau whose work was fundamental to modernist architecture In the decade following the success of his design for the Hôtel Tassel in Brussels in 1893, Victor Horta, the creator of Art Nouveau architecture, produced more than forty buildings—and a movement. Prepared in close collaboration with the Horta Museum, Brussels, Victor Horta: The Architect of Art Nouveau discusses the many influences on Horta’s designs and his legacy. The richly ornamental style of Art Nouveau, characterized by fluid lines based on natural forms, expressed a desire to abandon the historical styles of the nineteenth century and to develop a language that was beautifully crafted and thoroughly contemporary, laying the foundations for the development of modernism in architecture and interior design. Detailed descriptions of nineteen projects representing the full range of Horta’s work—including Edicule Lambeaux, Hôtel Autrique, Hôtel Max Hallet, and the Brugmann Hospital, are illustrated with Horta’s original drawings and specially commissioned photographs by award- winning photographer Alastair Carew-Cox. Extensive photographs of Hôtel Solvay—to which access had been denied for twenty years before Carew-Cox was granted special access, in recognition of his and David Dernie’s significant contribution to the study of Horta—are also included.

Author : Ivan Bercedo
Publisher : Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2018-03-28
Category :
ISBN : 9788434313699

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The result of years of research, this epic volume shows the global reach of the Art Nouveau idiom Modernismo, Jugendstil or Art Nouveau--the different names given to Art Nouveau in different geographical contexts highlight the territorial scope and diversity of the style, but also its common features: it was new, modern, young and groundbreaking. Whether in Austria, Spain, Denmark or Russia, Art Nouveau defined itself as something that opposed tradition and broke with the past. Rejecting a classicizing academic grammar, and reaching deep into the fantastical for inspiration (from the imagined history of the medieval to the Orientalist exotic), artists and architects such as Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Viollet-le-Duc, William Morris, Otto Wagner, Samuel Bing and the Goncourt brothers created a new style with a holistic vision, embracing architecture, painting, graphic art, interior design, textiles, ceramics and metalwork. Imaginative form was matched by innovative building techniques. The architects of Art Nouveau were some of the first to experiment with building with iron, glass, pottery and prefabricated concrete; their buildings offer instructive models of industrial development and collaborative design. Beautifully illustrated and exhaustively researched, The World Atlas of Art Nouveau Architecture brings together a selection of key Art Nouveau buildings in a truly global survey that includes, for the first time, examples of the style outside of Europe. Exemplars of the form were chosen through a rigorous selection process involving a panel of expert advisors with specialist input from each world region. A general introduction to the style grounds the selection, and short essays explain how Art Nouveau differed in different cities and countries. The World Atlas of Art Nouveau Architecture honors one of the world's first truly global modern art movements.

Author : David Albert Hanser
Publisher :
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art nouveau (Architecture)
ISBN :

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In 1893 Victor Horta, a young Belgian architect who had built only a handful of relatively insignificant structures, designed the Tassel House. The popularity of the decorative style which Horta introduced in it and developed in the series of masterpieces which rapidly followed, has resulted in far more attention being paid to Horta's ornament than to his unprecedented and ultimately more significant architectural innovations. The most important of these was, as Henry van de Velde noted, "the first appearance of the 'open plan' ... (which) spread rapidly and vanquished everything in opposition." Historians have suggested that exposure to developments in British architecture and design, which were introduced into Belgium at about the same time Horta designed the Tassel House, were the inspiration for his innovations, particularly for the decorations. Historians who have examined the architectural innovations have limited their studies almost entirely to his use of iron construction, which they suggest was inspired by the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition and illustrations in Viollet-le-Duc's Discourses on Architecture. Horta and his associates categorically denied any British influence, but he did recognize Viollet as one of his masters. In his memoirs, he identifies other influences on him at the time he designed the Tassel House: his appointment to the faculty at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles where he assumed the theory and construction courses of a suddenly deceased professor, and his activities in a Masonic lodge whose membership was largely composed of leading scientists and mathematicians from the University (including Tassel). Close analysis of Horta's earlier buildings, which have received little study, shows that the Tassel House may represent a rapid maturation which was precipitated by these events, but it was not a sudden change in direction. He had been consistently developing, prior to the Tassel House, a theory of architecture that was focussed by renewed contact with French Rationalist architectural theory and practice. In books, structures, and decorations, associated with the Rationalists can be found the essential components which have been missing in previous attempts to explain the genesis of Horta's mature style, architectural and decorative, and the beginnings of Art Nouveau architecture that the Tassel House represents. Henry van de Velde, manuscript x/38, Archives van de Velde. "L'histoire de l'architecture contemporaine n'en inscrit pas moins a l'actif de V. Horta la premiere apparition du 'plan libre'. Cette audacieuse innovation s'entendra rapidement et des chances de triompher de tout ce qui pourrait lu etre oppose."

Author : Marco Zoppi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2024-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040157602

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This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immaterial forms of representation, commemoration, and memorialization. Recent waves of protest around the world have called for restitution of looted African art, and toppled statues and vandalized monuments which are connected to white suprematism, colonialism, and imperialism. These events have highlighted an urgent need to debate the management and preservation of Europe and Africa’s shared heritage. Drawing on a range of varied, trans-continental case studies, this book considers the key question of whether such monuments should be removed as forms of unacceptable celebration of an evil past, or preserved precisely because of what they recount about that past of oppression and domination. The book encourages readers to consider how diverse and pervasive the notions of shared heritage and common past are, encompassing discussions of statues, exhibitions, graffiti, tapestries, and commemorations. Providing a timely analysis of the developing cultural relations between Africa and Europe, this book will be an important resource for researchers across the fields of global history, heritage studies, memory studies, and international relations.