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"The Earth that modernism built" traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of analysis. Rather than describing how new design ideas and practices traveled and transformed(...)
The earth that modernism built: Empire and the rise of Planetary Design
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"The Earth that modernism built" traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of analysis. Rather than describing how new design ideas and practices traveled and transformed people and places across the globe, this book interrogates the politics of life and earth underpinning this process. It demonstrates how approaches to modern housing, landscape design, and infrastructure planning are indebted to an understanding of planetary and human ecology fueled by settler colonialism and imperial ambition.
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Collected essays in architectural criticism / Alan Colquhoun ; introduction by Kenneth Frampton.
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351 pages : illustrations, plans ; 27 cm
London : Black Dog Pub., ©2009.
Collected essays in architectural criticism / Alan Colquhoun ; introduction by Kenneth Frampton.
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London : Black Dog Pub., ©2009.
Mid-century modernism and the American body: race, gender, and the politics of power in design
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In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our continued fascination, we rarely consider how this iconic design sensibility was marketed to the diverse audiences of its era. Examining advice manuals, advertisements in Life(...)
Mid-century modernism and the American body: race, gender, and the politics of power in design
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In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our continued fascination, we rarely consider how this iconic design sensibility was marketed to the diverse audiences of its era. Examining advice manuals, advertisements in Life and Ebony, furniture, art, and more, 'Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body' offers a powerful new look at how codes of race, gender, and identity influenced — and were influenced by — Modern design and shaped its presentation to consumers.
Architectural Theory
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xviii, 608 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
The city reader / edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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In her new book, Mary Ann Caws explores a rich variety of gathering places, past and present, which have been conducive to the release and sustenance of creative energies. ''Creative Gatherings'' surveys meeting locations across Europe and the United States, from cityscapes to island hideouts, from private homes to public cafes and artists’ colonies. Examples include(...)
Creative gatherings: meeting places of modernism
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In her new book, Mary Ann Caws explores a rich variety of gathering places, past and present, which have been conducive to the release and sustenance of creative energies. ''Creative Gatherings'' surveys meeting locations across Europe and the United States, from cityscapes to island hideouts, from private homes to public cafes and artists’ colonies. Examples include Florence Griswold’s house in Old Lyme, Connecticut, meeting place of the Old Lyme Art Colony; Prague’s Le Louvre café, haunt of Kafka and Einstein; Picasso’s modernist hangout in Barcelona, Els Quatre Gats; Charleston, gathering place of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa and Duncan Bell; and the cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Montparnasse: the hangouts of Apollinaire, Sartre, and Patti Smith.
Architectural Theory
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Leipzig-born photographer Margret Hoppe is a promising new voice in European photographic art. This new book features her series Apres une Architecture, a photographic perspective of Le Corbusier's architecture that refers to his concept of a modern architecture laid-out in the book Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture) of 1923. Hoppe's images show Le Corbusier's(...)
Margret Hoppe: the promise of modernism
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Leipzig-born photographer Margret Hoppe is a promising new voice in European photographic art. This new book features her series Apres une Architecture, a photographic perspective of Le Corbusier's architecture that refers to his concept of a modern architecture laid-out in the book Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture) of 1923. Hoppe's images show Le Corbusier's use of exposed concrete, the clarity of his geometric shapes and the emblematic polychrome surfaces as symbols of his buildings.
Photography monographs
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The aesthetic of architect Hector Guimard (1867–1942) has long characterized French Art Nouveau in the popular imagination. This groundbreaking book showcases all aspects of his artistry and recognizes the fundamental modernity of his work. Known for, among other things, the decorative entrances to the Paris Métro and the associated lettering, he often looked to nature(...)
Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to modernism
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The aesthetic of architect Hector Guimard (1867–1942) has long characterized French Art Nouveau in the popular imagination. This groundbreaking book showcases all aspects of his artistry and recognizes the fundamental modernity of his work. Known for, among other things, the decorative entrances to the Paris Métro and the associated lettering, he often looked to nature for inspiration, and combined materials such as stone and cast iron in unique ways to create designs composed of curves and waves that evoked movement. Guimard broke away from his classical Beaux-Arts training to advocate a modern, abstract style; he also pioneered the use of standardized models for his design objects and experimented with prefabricated designs in his social housing commissions, advancing the technology of the time.
Architecture Monographs
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xiii, 352 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits 23 cm
London, G. Routledge & Sons [1938]
Scaffolding in the sky, a semi-architectural autobiography.
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London, G. Routledge & Sons [1938]
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Hilmer & Sattler : Bauten und Projekte = Buildings and projects / Einführung, Stanislaus von Moos.
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243 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Stuttgart : Edition A. Menges, ©2000.
Hilmer & Sattler : Bauten und Projekte = Buildings and projects / Einführung, Stanislaus von Moos.
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Stuttgart : Edition A. Menges, ©2000.
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350 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
[Boston] : David R. Godine, ©1976., New York : Whitney Museum of American Art.
200 years of American sculpture / Tom Armstrong, Wayne Craven, Norman Feder, Barbara Haskell, Rosalind E. Krauss, Daniel Robbins, Marcia Tucker.
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[Boston] : David R. Godine, ©1976., New York : Whitney Museum of American Art.