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191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Montréal : Éditions Écosociété, 2019., ©2019
La vie dans l'espace public : comment l'étudier / Jan Gehl et Birgitte Svarre ; traduit de l'anglais par Nicolas Calvé ; préface d'Anne Hidalgo et Valérie Plante ; postface de Jayne Engle.
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191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Montréal : Éditions Écosociété, 2019., ©2019
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311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Mumbai, India : Pictor ; Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz, ©2011.
Architecture in India since 1990 / Rahul Mehrotra.
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311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
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Mumbai, India : Pictor ; Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz, ©2011.
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This book investigates a particular kind of architecture that thrived in the 1950s in Cadaqués, a small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Brava. It explores a number of holiday houses built between the mid-1950s and 1960s by a group of architects who shared bonds of friendship and architectural affinities, as well as connections with the international Modern movement(...)
Lineage and legacy: A certain Modernism in Cadaqués
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This book investigates a particular kind of architecture that thrived in the 1950s in Cadaqués, a small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Brava. It explores a number of holiday houses built between the mid-1950s and 1960s by a group of architects who shared bonds of friendship and architectural affinities, as well as connections with the international Modern movement (including José Antonio Coderch, Lluís Clotet, Federico Correa, Alfonso Milá, Oscar Tusquets, and Manuel Valls). Observations on the common threads that link eight case studies are enriched by a photographic essay by David Grandorge and by detailed architectural drawings on a number of significant projects of the time. An interview with the authors Stephen Bates (Sergison Bates architects, London) and Fernando Villavecchia (Liebman Villavecchia Arquitectos, Barcelona) provides a background to their shared fascination with Cadaqués. A timeline contextualizes the projects against the backdrop of historical events and the milestone in the lives of the clients and architects who made the village a unique locus in the history of architecture.
Modernism
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The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture. Many of these pre- and post-war buildings are now suffering severe defects in the building fabric, which necessitate measures to preserve the buildings. In this endeavor, aspects of architectural design, building physics, and the preservation of(...)
Reglazing modernism: intervention strategies for 20th-century icons
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The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture. Many of these pre- and post-war buildings are now suffering severe defects in the building fabric, which necessitate measures to preserve the buildings. In this endeavor, aspects of architectural design, building physics, and the preservation of historic buildings play a key role. The book documents 20 iconic buildings.
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Other cities, other worlds : urban imaginaries in a globalizing age / edited by Andreas Huyssen.
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viii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Other cities, other worlds : urban imaginaries in a globalizing age / edited by Andreas Huyssen.
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viii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
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562 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Basel, Switzerland ; Boston [MA] : Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, [2019]
Architecture in Norway : an architectural history from the Stone Age to the 21st century / Nils Georg Brekke, Per Jonas Nordhagen and Siri Skjold Lexau ; translation from Norwegian into English, Hege Hernæs, Justin le Furjah.
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Basel, Switzerland ; Boston [MA] : Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, [2019]
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Scholar and historian Christopher Long turns his attention to the little-known German-born architect and designer Jock Peters (1889–1934). Long's engaging study introduces us to the modernist's architectural work in Hamburg, Germany, before World War I, and also to Peters's work created after he immigrated to America in 1922. Most notable are his interiors for the(...)
Jock Peters: Architecture and design. The varieties of Modernism
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Scholar and historian Christopher Long turns his attention to the little-known German-born architect and designer Jock Peters (1889–1934). Long's engaging study introduces us to the modernist's architectural work in Hamburg, Germany, before World War I, and also to Peters's work created after he immigrated to America in 1922. Most notable are his interiors for the once-famous Hollander department store in New York City and for Bullock's Wilshire in Los Angeles (the building was recently restored by Southwestern Law School). Both projects brought him international recognition. Peters also designed a dynamic sales office building for the short-lived Maddux Air Lines, as well as stores and houses for the developer William Lingenbrink, a major supporter of the burgeoning modernism in Southern California. Aside from his architectural work, Peters designed film sets for Famous Players-Lasky (later Paramount Pictures), working in the famed art department of Hans Dreier. Despite his early death, Peters managed to leave his mark on the modernist landscape in Southern California at a time when the new style was just emerging.
Modernism
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The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. "Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man" explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that(...)
Modernism and the making of the Soviet new man
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The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. "Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man" explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that most clearly articulated the dynamic of the socialist project as a negotiation between utopia and reality, the will for progress and the will for tyranny. It was a comprehensive effort that brought together professional architects and statisticians, theatre directors, managers, housewives, pilots, construction workers. What they had in common was the enthusiasm for defining the "new man", the ideal citizen of the radiant future, and the settings in which he or she lives.
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xvii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2002.
Art history, aesthetics, visual studies / edited by Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey.
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xvii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2002.
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Mies in Berlin / Terence Riley, Barry Bergdoll ; with essays by Vittorio Magnago [and others].
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392 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
New York, NY : Museum of Modern Art, 2001.
Mies in Berlin / Terence Riley, Barry Bergdoll ; with essays by Vittorio Magnago [and others].
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392 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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New York, NY : Museum of Modern Art, 2001.