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175 pages ; 23 cm
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
The cult of the Avant-Garde artist / Donald Kuspit.
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175 pages ; 23 cm
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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An architectural history primer, a showcase of classic modern homes, and an inspirational design book, "Living modern" exposes the inner workings of modernist principles. Through hundreds of photographs that display modern homes by such design luminaries as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, and Le Corbusier, this book is a(...)
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January 2002, San Francisco
Modern living: bringing modernism home
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An architectural history primer, a showcase of classic modern homes, and an inspirational design book, "Living modern" exposes the inner workings of modernist principles. Through hundreds of photographs that display modern homes by such design luminaries as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, and Le Corbusier, this book is a resource for those who want to learn about the movement's pinnacles, as well as anyone who wants to apply its tenets to create modern creations.
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January 2002, San Francisco
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Le modernisme réactionnaire : haine de la raison et culte de la technologie aux sources du nazisme
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Le nazisme est trop souvent présenté comme un mouvement profondément antimoderne, obsédé par un passé mythique et exaltant la communauté du sang et de la tradition culturelle. Dans ce livre, qui a fait date par son approche radicalement nouvelle, Jeffrey Herf montre au contraire qu'il a voué un culte délirant à la technologie la plus avancée. Pour ce faire, le grand(...)
Le modernisme réactionnaire : haine de la raison et culte de la technologie aux sources du nazisme
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Le nazisme est trop souvent présenté comme un mouvement profondément antimoderne, obsédé par un passé mythique et exaltant la communauté du sang et de la tradition culturelle. Dans ce livre, qui a fait date par son approche radicalement nouvelle, Jeffrey Herf montre au contraire qu'il a voué un culte délirant à la technologie la plus avancée. Pour ce faire, le grand historien américain s'est livré à une enquête approfondie sur les origines idéologiques du Ille Reich, mettant en lumière une nébuleuse originale d'intellectuels, dont plusieurs ont marqué l'histoire des idées, comme Oswald Spengler, Ernst Jünger, Werner Sombart ou Carl Schmitt.
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Asmara : Africa's secret modernist city / Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren, and Naigzy Gebremedhin.
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240 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
London : Merrell, 2003.
Asmara : Africa's secret modernist city / Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren, and Naigzy Gebremedhin.
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London : Merrell, 2003.
Bauhaus imaginista
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Featuring contributions from artists, historians, cultural theorists and others, 'Bauhaus Imaginista' offers a rare opportunity to explore a history of transcultural exchange in the 20th century through the specific lens of the Bauhaus and its reception in different geographies and time periods. Part of the large-scale project marking the school’s centenary, its focus is(...)
Bauhaus imaginista
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Featuring contributions from artists, historians, cultural theorists and others, 'Bauhaus Imaginista' offers a rare opportunity to explore a history of transcultural exchange in the 20th century through the specific lens of the Bauhaus and its reception in different geographies and time periods. Part of the large-scale project marking the school’s centenary, its focus is on the experimental, open-ended character of modernism as well as its inherent cosmopolitanism.
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141 pages : colour illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm
[Singapore] : Talisman Publishing Pte Ltd, 2016.
In search of Bawa : master architect of Sri Lanka / David Robson ; photography by Sebastian Posingis.
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141 pages : colour illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm
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[Singapore] : Talisman Publishing Pte Ltd, 2016.
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168 pages : chiefly illustrations (all color) ; 23 cm
New York City : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2002.
Cuba style : graphics from the golden age of design / Vicki Gold Levi & Steven Heller.
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168 pages : chiefly illustrations (all color) ; 23 cm
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New York City : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2002.
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104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
New York : Rizzoli, 1977.
The language of post-modern architecture / Charles A. Jencks.
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New York : Rizzoli, 1977.
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Fin-de-siècle Vienna was a hive of creative activity, and at its centre was one of the most versatile artists of the age, Koloman Moser (1868–1918). As a teacher, artist and craftsman, Moser had an immense influence on the tastes of his time, with talents that ranged from illustration and graphics to stained glass and the design of stage sets and postage stamps. In(...)
Koloman Moser : master of Viennese modernism
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Fin-de-siècle Vienna was a hive of creative activity, and at its centre was one of the most versatile artists of the age, Koloman Moser (1868–1918). As a teacher, artist and craftsman, Moser had an immense influence on the tastes of his time, with talents that ranged from illustration and graphics to stained glass and the design of stage sets and postage stamps. In 1897 Moser co-founded the Vienna Secession, and in 1903, together with his friend and colleague Josef Hoffmann, he founded the Wiener Werkstätte, whose workshops were to set trends that spread far beyond the boundaries of Vienna. He devoted the last years of his life to painting, and in recent times his reputation in this field too has steadily grown. Despite the wealth of information that has survived down the years, Moser’s personality remains largely hidden behind his work. Here, Maria Rennhofer joins the many fragments of Moser’s personal life, his artistic influences and his multifaceted creativity into a coherent portrait of this fascinating man. This is not only the first comprehensive account of Moser’s life and work, but it is also an in-depth look at the flourishing artistic environment which he did so much to create and shape.
Design Monographs
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In the 1960s and ’70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor, they had one thing in common: they advocated moving away from the traditional reliance on an individual architect’s(...)
Automatic architecture: motivating form after modernism
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In the 1960s and ’70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor, they had one thing in common: they advocated moving away from the traditional reliance on an individual architect’s knowledge and instincts and toward the use of external tools and processes that were considered objective, logical, or natural. Automatic architecture was born.
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