Main entry:

Guarneri, Andrea Bocco, author. aut

Title & Author:

Bernard Rudofsky : a humane designer / Andrea Bocco Guarneri ; [translation by David S. Tabbat].

Publication:

New York : SpringerWien, [2003]

Description:

320 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biographical notes -- Map of Rudofsky's personal and professional contacts -- On the architectural oeuvre (a natural philosophy of architecture) -- Table of correspondences -- On style -- Repertory of compositional elements -- Mineral vs. organic -- Purposeless architecture -- On the house -- Ein Rudofsky-haus zu bauen? -- Intimacy and articulation of indoor and outdoor spaces -- The room -- On the art of living (a natural philosophy of living) -- Unsatisfactory relationships -- Clothing -- Everyday questions -- Some hints for enhancing the quality of domestic life -- Furniture design -- Rudofsky as "un-teacher" -- Learning by confronting diversity -- A map of Rudofsky's travels -- Catalogues -- Rhetoric -- The dilettante -- After architecture without architects, after architects -- The ethical function -- The didactics of curiosity -- A map of places covered by Architecture without architects and The prodigious builders -- Rudofsky as a photographer -- Portfolio -- A Rudofsky reader: What's needed is not a new way of building, what's needed is a new way of life (1938). Fashion: inhuman garment (1938). Variations on a floor (1938). The origin of the qwelling (1938). Give us our dining room (1942). Notes on patios (1943). The bread of architecture (1952). Pocket money (ca. 1954). Introduction to Japan (1956-57). First things first (1961). Proposal for a center for environmental studies (1965). The human side of architecture (1966). The indigenous environment (1980) -- Catalogue of Rudofsky's non-literary work.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

3211837191 (alk. paper)
9783211837191 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Rudofsky, Bernard, 1905-1988 Criticism and interpretation.
Rudofsky, Bernard, 1905- Critique et interprétation.
Rudofsky, Bernard, 1905-1988
Rudofsky, Bernard 1905-1988
Rudofsky, Bernard, 1905-
Rudofsky, Bernard.
Architectural design History 20th century.
Design History 20th century.
Design architectural Histoire 20e siècle.
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Architectural design
Design
Arquitetura moderna (século 20;história)
Design (século 20;história)
Design architectural.
Décorateur d'intérieur.

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Rudofsky, Bernard, 1905-1988. Works. Selections. 2003.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230508
Call No.: NA44.R9167 G8 2003
Status: Available