[PDF] Peter Behrens And A New Architecture For The Twentieth Century eBook

Author : Stanford Anderson
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262011761

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The designer who influenced Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier, among other architects, is celebrated in a richly illustrated study of one of the great architects of the twentieth century.

Author : Stanford Anderson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2002-08-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262511308

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The complete story of Behrens' contribution to the history oftwentieth-century architecture.

Author : Peter Go ssel
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783822811627

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After several pages of prologue summing up 18th century highlights--especially the rise in importance of geometry--some forty pages cover 1784-1916, focusing on the heavily fenestrated high-rises of the Chicago School and the iron and glass pavilions of Europe. The chapter spanning 1892-1925 concentrates on the many disputes over the trajectory of modernism: Nieuwe Kunst, Stile Liberty, Jugendstil, and Art Nouveau, all arguing the direction that the boom of prisons, hospitals, schools, town halls, and other institutional buildings would take. Three more time divisions follow and a concise compendium of architect biographies ends the volume. Along with an array of great pictures (par for Taschen), Gossel and Leuthauser--both active in the private sector--add a strong prose style attentive to debates among architects and the socioeconomic stage on which architects act. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : R. Stephen Sennott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781579584337

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"A balance of sophistication and clarity in the writing, authoritative entries, and strong cross-referencing that links archtects and structures to entries on the history and theory of the profession make this an especially useful source on a century of the world's most notable architecture. The contents feature major architects, firms, and professional issues; buildings, styles, and sites; the architecture of cities and countries; critics and historians; construction, materials, and planning topics; schools, movements, and stylistic and theoretical terms. Entries include well-selected bibliographies and illustrations."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.

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Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3035617430

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As founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius (1883–1969) is one of the icons of 20the century architecture. While his early buildings in Pomerania were still strongly marked by his teacher Peter Behrens, after an expressionistic phase focused on handicraft, he ultimately arrived at geometric abstraction. During the entire period he collaborated with other architects, founding the collective known as "The Architects Collaborative" in the US. The comprehensive monograph documents all 74 of the known buildings by Gropius that were realized, including many early works which he never publicized; but it also critically examines his unbuilt projects. The book is illustrated with new photographs by the author, historical figures, and with as new plans drawn by the author.

Author : Claire Zimmerman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1452939977

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One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent, however, that photography did more than reproduce what it depicted. It altered both subject and reception, as architecture in the twentieth century was enlisted as a form of mass communication. Claire Zimmerman reveals how photography profoundly influenced architectural design in the past century, playing an instrumental role in the evolution of modern architecture. Her “picture anthropology” demonstrates how buildings changed irrevocably and substantially through their interaction with photography, beginning with the emergence of mass-printed photographically illustrated texts in Germany before World War II and concluding with the postwar age of commercial advertising. In taking up “photographic architecture,” Zimmerman considers two interconnected topics: first, architectural photography and its circulation; and second, the impact of photography on architectural design. She describes how architectural photographic protocols developed in Germany in the early twentieth century, expanded significantly in the wartime and postwar diaspora, and accelerated dramatically with the advent of postmodernism. In modern architecture, she argues, how buildings looked and how photographs made them look overlapped in consequential ways. In architecture and photography, the modernist concepts that were visible to the largest number over the widest terrain with the greatest clarity carried the day. This richly illustrated work shows, for the first time, how new ideas and new buildings arose from the interplay of photography and architecture—transforming how we see the world and how we act on it.

Author : Frederic J. Schwartz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300068986

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During the period before World War I, the German Werkbund tried to forge new theories of architecture and design in the light of the technological and economic developments of modernity. This work explores the ideology and aesthetic positions in the debates among those who comprised the Werkbund.

Author : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568987538

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"The thirty years modernist legend Mies van der Rohe spent working in America arguably reflect his most consistent and mature efforts toward achieving his goal: a new architecture for the twentieth century. Focusing on this American period, Conversations with Mies van der Rohe gives new credence to this claim by presenting the architect's most important design concerns in his own words. In this collection of interviews Mies talks freely about his relationship with clients, the common language he sought in his architectural projects, the influences on his work, and the synthesis of architecture and technology that he advanced in his designs and built works. An essay by Inaki Abalos provides a context for these interviews and looks at Mies's legacy from a contemporary perspective."--