Main entry:

Benton, Tim, 1945- editor.

Title & Author:

Form and function : a source book for the history of architecture and design 1890-1939 / edited by Tim and Charlotte Benton, with Dennis Sharp.

Publication:

London : Crosby Lockwood Staples, in association with the Open University Press, 1975.
©1975

Description:

xxiii, 252 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Set books / Open University

Notes:
American edition published under title: Architecture and design, 1890-1939.
"Prepared in conjunction with an Open University course entitled History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.
Part 1: Arts and crafts values. Louis Sullivan, Ornament in architecture -- Riouz de Maillou, The decorative arts and the machine -- M.H. Baillie Scott, An ideal suburban house -- Alfred Lichtwark, Palace window and folding door -- Louis Sullivan, The tall office building artistically considered -- Alfred Lichtwark, Practical application -- Thiebault-Sisson, An innovator: Victor Horta -- Henry van de Velde, A chapter on the design and construction of modern furniture -- S. Bing, Where are we going? -- August Endell, The beauty of form and decorative art -- Adolf Loos, Potemkin's town -- Victor Champier, The Castel Beranger -- Charles Plumet, The modern home -- Emile Galle, Modern furniture decorated according to nature -- Henry van de Velde, The new ornament -- Henry van de Velde, The role of the engineer in modern architecture -- Hermann Muthesius, The English house -- Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, The work-programme of the Wiener Werkstatte -- Hermann Muthesius, The future of German form -- Hans Poelzig, The architect -- Frank Lloyd Wright, The Cardboard House -- Victor Horta, Reminiscences of the Maison de Peuple. Part 2: The artistic vision and architecture. Antonio Sant'Elia, The new city -- Paul Scheerbart, Glass architecture -- Erich Mendelsohn, Reflections on a new architecture -- Adolf Behne, Review of Scheerbart's 'Glass Architecture' -- Walter Gropius, Programme of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar -- Walter Gropius, Address to the Bauhaus students -- Bruno Taut, 'Ex Oriente Lux': Call to architects -- Bruno Taut, The city crown -- Nikolai Punin, On Tatlin's monument to the third international -- Naum Gabo & Antoint Pevsner, The realistic manifesto -- Le Corbusier & Amadee Ozenfant, Purism -- Nikolai Punin, Tatlin's monument -- A. Rodchenko & V. Stepanova: The programme of the Productivist Group -- Theo van Doesburg, The will to style -- Vilmos Huszar, The Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Constructivism and the proletariat -- Gino Severini, Machinery -- Fernand Leger, The machine aesthetic: the manufactured object, the artisan and the artist -- Leon Trotsky, Literature and revolution -- M. Szczuka & T. Zarnower, What is constructivism? -- Hugo Haring, Approaches to form -- Frederick Kiesler, Manifesto -- Hannes Meyer, The new world -- Kasimir Malevich, Supremacist architecture. Part 3: The search for form. R.M. Schindler: A manifesto -- Hermann Muthesius, The problem of form in engineering -- J.J.P. Oud, Architecture and standardisation in mass construction -- Walter Gropius, The theory and organisation of the Bauhaus -- Oskar Schlemmer, The Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar -- F.H. Ehmcke, The Bauhaus in Weimar -- K. Nonn, The state garbage supplies -- Robert Mallett-Stevens, Architecture and geometry -- Le Corbusier, The new spirit in architecture -- Le Corbusier, Mass produced buildings -- Le Corbusier, Appeal to industrialists -- Le Corbusioer, A single trade -- Le Corbusier, Standardisation cannot resolve an architectural difficulty -- Le Corbusier, A contemporary city with three million inhabitants -- Le Corbusier, Words -- Walter Behrendt, The state of the arts and crafts -- Kurt Ewald, The beauty of machines -- Walter Gropius, Where artists and technicians meet -- Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Dessau -- principles of Bauhaus production -- Wassily Kandinsky, The value of the teaching of theory in painting -- Georg Muche, Fine art and industrial form -- Werner Graff, The Dwelling -- Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret, Five points of a new architecture -- W. Lotz, Weissenhof exhibition -- Mies van der Rohe, Remarks on my block of flats -- M. Ginzburg, Results and prospects -- Gustav Platz, Elements in the creation of a new style -- Gerrit Rietveld, Construction: (Beau Art) -- W. Lotz, Space in transport vehicles -- Mies van der Rohe, On the subject of exhibitions -- Walter Riezler, The purpose and concept of technical beauty -- Hannes Meyer, Address to student representatives at the Bauhaus -- Arthur Korn, Glass in modern architecture -- Bruno Taut, Five points -- Ernst Kallai, Ten years of Bauhaus -- Reginald Breuer, Where do we stand? -- R.M. Schindler, Space architecture. Part 4: Housing and the wider political context. Walter Gropius, Programme for the establishment of a company for the provision of housing on aesthetically consistent principles -- Alfred P. Simon, 'Good and cheap' -- M.H. Baillie, 'Good and cheap' -- W.R. Lethaby, Housing and furnishing -- Walter Gropius, How can we build cheaper, better, more attractive houses? -- Mart Stam, The Stam Houses -- W.F. Critall, Silver End -- C.I.A.M., Declaration of aims -- Alexei Gan, What is constructivism? -- Karel Teige, Contemporary international architecture -- Ernst May, Flats for subsistence living -- Walter Reizler, the fight for German culture -- Philip Johnson, Architecture in the Third Reich -- Jiri Kroha, Ideology of architecture -- Paul Schmitthenner, Tradition and new buildings -- F. Schuster, Five years of the Weissenhof Seidlung in Stuttgart -- F.R. Yerbury, in Germany now -- Wells Coates, The conditions for an architecture of today. Part 5: The object in use. Werner Graff, On the form of the motor car -- Johannes Molzahn, Economics of the advertising mechanism -- Marcel Breur, Metal furniture -- Mart Stam, Away with the furniture artists -- Willi Lotz, Suites of furniture and standard furniture designs -- John Gloag, Wood or metal? -- Le Corbusier, The furniture adventure -- Ernst May, Town planning and illuminated advertisements -- Maurice Dufrene, A survey of modern tendencies in decorative art -- Harold van Doren, Streamlining.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Provides the evidence for an understanding of the intellectual climate from which the architecture and design of today have spring with writings of such infludential authors as Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos, Henry Van de Velde, Hermann Muthesius, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Bruno Taut and Frank Lloyd Wright.

ISBN:

0258969903 (hardback)
9780258969908 (hardback)
0258970162 (paperback)
9780258970164 (paperback)
0246112786
9780246112781

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectural design.
Architecture moderne 20e siècle.
Design architectural.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur
Quelle
Architectural design Addresses, essays, lectures
Architecture, Modern 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures

Added entries:

Benton, Charlotte, editor.
Sharp, Dennis, 1933-2010, editor.
Open University.
Set books (Open University)
Arts third level course. History of architecture and design, 1890-1939.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 63356
Call No.: W7169; ID:85-B8248
Status: Available