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This volume is a nuanced intellectual history of architectural innovation in California between 1920 and 1970. It demonstrates how this prolific era of modern architecture was propelled by divergent views about the dynamic between interior and exterior, the idea of permanence, and the extent to which architects could exercise control over the inhabitants of their structures.
Nothing permanent: Modern architecture in California
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This volume is a nuanced intellectual history of architectural innovation in California between 1920 and 1970. It demonstrates how this prolific era of modern architecture was propelled by divergent views about the dynamic between interior and exterior, the idea of permanence, and the extent to which architects could exercise control over the inhabitants of their structures.
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Modern architecture is inseparably linked with the Industrial Revolution. Industrially manufactured materials such as iron, steel, reinforced concrete, glass, asbestos, and later also plastics, have helped to make architecture modern. The Industrial Revolution also set planetary warming in motion. Thus, it is not far-fetched to claim that there are also correlations(...)
Modern architecture: A planetary warming history
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Modern architecture is inseparably linked with the Industrial Revolution. Industrially manufactured materials such as iron, steel, reinforced concrete, glass, asbestos, and later also plastics, have helped to make architecture modern. The Industrial Revolution also set planetary warming in motion. Thus, it is not far-fetched to claim that there are also correlations between modern architecture and planetary warming. This book is a rough sketch of a proposed history of modern architecture since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It aims to break away from the established neural networks of the profession’s collective memory of how modern architecture’s history has unfolded, and offers the beginning of a rewiring: by introducing new actors, and highlighting ideas and projects that deal with climate and environment, while relegating some of the usual stars of modernism and postmodernism to the background.
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From metal-clad houses to skyscrapers, aluminium’s futuristic image became increasingly prominent in American architecture during the 20th century, influencing everything from roadside diners built in the Googie style to later postmodernism. This book features a selection of American and Japanese architectural precedents built during the transitional period from modern to(...)
Ex-dreams: The alternative mid-century architecture
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From metal-clad houses to skyscrapers, aluminium’s futuristic image became increasingly prominent in American architecture during the 20th century, influencing everything from roadside diners built in the Googie style to later postmodernism. This book features a selection of American and Japanese architectural precedents built during the transitional period from modern to postmodern architecture, depicted in photographs, drawings, illustrations, and even cartoons. Deepening an understanding of these complex trends is an essay by Tomoyuki Gondo, plus interviews and discussions with various experts in the field such as Lloyd Khan, Victor Newlove, and Seng Kuan.
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Step into the world of mid-century modern design with ''Modernist Icons'', a stunning exploration of the era's groundbreaking architecture and interiors from around the world. Discover how this design movement evolved from organic forms and functionality to sleek lines and refined elegance, and how it has remained a timeless classic. Delving deep into the interiors and(...)
Modernist icons: Mid-century houses and interiors
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Step into the world of mid-century modern design with ''Modernist Icons'', a stunning exploration of the era's groundbreaking architecture and interiors from around the world. Discover how this design movement evolved from organic forms and functionality to sleek lines and refined elegance, and how it has remained a timeless classic. Delving deep into the interiors and furniture that define this iconic aesthetic, ''Modernist Icons'' showcases the evolution of midcentury modernism over time. Learn how this design philosophy has influenced and informed other creative expressions and explore stunning examples from leading designers in this space. Featuring expert essays and striking imagery, this beautifully curated compilation is a true celebration and overview of the mid-century modern style.
Modernism
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This photo album includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in Germany – from 1955 to 1990. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies; it presents – in colour photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original elements that synthesize local culture and traditions, while bringing the reader up to date with their(...)
Socialist modernism in Gremany
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This photo album includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in Germany – from 1955 to 1990. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies; it presents – in colour photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original elements that synthesize local culture and traditions, while bringing the reader up to date with their current state of conservation. The 71 landmarks included in this volume have been organized by function, into five sections. The book contains the authors’ view on Eastern German modernist architecture.
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''Socialist modernism in Ukraine'', the fifth photo album/digital architectural guide of B.A.C.U ’s planned series, includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in Ukraine erected from 1955 to 1991. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies; it presents – in colour photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original(...)
Socialist modernism in Ukraine
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''Socialist modernism in Ukraine'', the fifth photo album/digital architectural guide of B.A.C.U ’s planned series, includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in Ukraine erected from 1955 to 1991. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies; it presents – in colour photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original elements that synthesize local culture and traditions, while bringing the reader up to date with their current state of conservation. The 130 landmarks included in this volume have been organized by function, into six sections. The book contains the authors’ view on Ukrainian modernist architecture.
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''Socialist modernism in the Caucasus'', the tenth architectural guide/photo album of B.A.C.U.'s planned series includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in the Caucasus from 1955 to 1991. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies; it presents – in colour photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original elements(...)
Socialist modernism in the Caucasus / Le modernisme socialiste dans le Caucase
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''Socialist modernism in the Caucasus'', the tenth architectural guide/photo album of B.A.C.U.'s planned series includes landmarks of socialist modernist architecture in the Caucasus from 1955 to 1991. B.A.C.U. Association explains socialist modernist tendencies; it presents – in colour photographs – a functional image of the buildings and their often original elements that synthesize local culture and traditions, while bringing the reader up to date with their current state of conservation. The 80 landmarks included in this volume have been organized by function, into five sections. The book contains the authors’ view on the Caucasus modernist architecture.
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Paris Moderne 1914-1945
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En paix ou en guerre, le Paris de la première moitié du XX? siècle vibre d’énergie fébrile. Les imaginations les plus débridées s’expriment dans des formes nouvelles dont les créateurs viennent de l’Europe entière. Le défi de l’industrie et les attentes du marché nourrissent l’architecture et l’ ensemble des disciplines artistiques, qui donnent son visage quotidien à une(...)
Paris Moderne 1914-1945
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En paix ou en guerre, le Paris de la première moitié du XX? siècle vibre d’énergie fébrile. Les imaginations les plus débridées s’expriment dans des formes nouvelles dont les créateurs viennent de l’Europe entière. Le défi de l’industrie et les attentes du marché nourrissent l’architecture et l’ ensemble des disciplines artistiques, qui donnent son visage quotidien à une ville délibérément moderne. Ce foisonnement est retracé selon le principe d’un dictionnaire, de la lettre « A », comme la photographe Laure Albin-Guillot, à la lettre « Z », comme le critique d’art Christian Zervos, en passant par Josephine Baker, Marcel Carné, Coco Chanel, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Adolf Loos, Charlotte Perriand, Helena Rubinstein ou Tristan Tzara. Près de cent entrées composent un portrait sous forme de kaléidoscope amplement illustré. Un reportage photographique d’Antonio Martinelli donne à voir ce que le paysage architectural et urbain d’aujourd’hui révèle du Paris d’il y a cent ans.
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Modern is the most comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain ever published. Shortlisted for the RIBA Bookshops International Book Award of 2005, this critically acclaimed publication is now available in paperback for the first time. Encyclopedic in scope and structure, it covers the work of such renowned architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer,(...)
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Modern : The modern movement in Britain
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Modern is the most comprehensive study of Modern Movement architecture in Britain ever published. Shortlisted for the RIBA Bookshops International Book Award of 2005, this critically acclaimed publication is now available in paperback for the first time. Encyclopedic in scope and structure, it covers the work of such renowned architects as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Maxwell Fry, Ernö Goldfinger, Berthold Lubetkin and others who changed the vocabulary of architecture in Britain between the wars. Specially commissioned photographs document all the major surviving buildings, from private houses and apartment blocks to schools and factories.
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The design of imaginary, conceptual, or radical buildings is as old as the practice of architecture itself. For centuries, architects such as Piranesi, Ledoux, and Sant'Elia have drawn on their creative abilities to produce breathtaking works of imagination. Since World War II, technology has caught up with our imagination: there are few buildings that can be envisioned(...)
Visionary Architecture: Blueprints of the modern imagination
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The design of imaginary, conceptual, or radical buildings is as old as the practice of architecture itself. For centuries, architects such as Piranesi, Ledoux, and Sant'Elia have drawn on their creative abilities to produce breathtaking works of imagination. Since World War II, technology has caught up with our imagination: there are few buildings that can be envisioned but not built. For the past six decades, architects have created an astonishing range of constructs and urban utopias that have influenced generations of practitioners. Architects such as Libeskind, Koolhaas, Eisenman, Hadid, and many others, whose works were once considered too experimental or controversial to construct, are creating cultural icons the world over. This definitive history of experimental architecture since 1945 provides a thematic overview of the most important and far-reaching work produced in the last sixty years; a survey of contemporary experimental practices, shown through case studies; and an illustrated glossary of ideas, movements, people, and terms. 450+ illustrations, 250 in color.
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