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Architecte, théoricien, urbaniste et écrivain, Jozsef Vago travaille à Budapest (1900-1919, 1926-1940), à Rome (1919-1926) et à Genève (1927-1935), avant de s'établir en France (1940-1947). Jeune diplômé, il s'engage dans la Sécession hongroise fondée par Odon Lechner et s'attache, comme de nombreux architectes de sa génération, à élaborer un nouveau langage architectural(...)
Jozsef Vago 1877-1947 : un architecte hongrois dans la tourmente européenne
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Architecte, théoricien, urbaniste et écrivain, Jozsef Vago travaille à Budapest (1900-1919, 1926-1940), à Rome (1919-1926) et à Genève (1927-1935), avant de s'établir en France (1940-1947). Jeune diplômé, il s'engage dans la Sécession hongroise fondée par Odon Lechner et s'attache, comme de nombreux architectes de sa génération, à élaborer un nouveau langage architectural national qui valorise la culture populaire. Jozsef Vago est aujourd'hui considéré comme l'une des figures de proue du renouveau architectural hongrois. Ses réalisations à Budapest entre 1903 et 1914, fleurons d'architecture " nationale " imprégnés de modernisme viennois, témoignent de son ouverture vers l'Occident et de son attention à la question sociale. Membre du Werkbund, engagé pendant la période révolutionnaire de 1918-1919, il est contraint d'émigrer en Italie lors de l'arrivée au pouvoir de l'amiral Horthy. Installé à Rome entre 1920 et 1926, il tente en vain de s'intégrer à la profession : il élabore des nouvelles typologies d'habitat social pour les cités-jardins romaines, publie de nombreux projets sous le nom de " Giuseppe Vago ", mais ne parvient à obtenir qu'une seule commande à Rome. Sans ressources, confronté à la xénophobie et au fascisme, il se réinstalle à Budapest, où il se voit empêché d'exercer par l'Ordre des architectes hongrois, créé en 1926. Sa victoire au concours du palais de la Société des Nations à Genève en 1927 inaugure une nouvelle phase de sa carrière. Ses démêlés avec ses associés - Henri-Paul Nénot, Jules Flegenheimer, Camille Lefèvre et Carlo Broggi - et avec Le Corbusier au cours de la réalisation du projet l'incitent, dans les années trente et quarante, à prendre part au débat architectural européen, à entamer une importante œuvre de critique et à élaborer une véritable philosophie de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme. Combattant les positions de l'avant-garde architecturale - et notamment de Le Corbusier -, il tente d'établir une synthèse entre les idéaux de l'Art nouveau et du modernisme, estimant que l'architecte doit s'efforcer de répondre aux aspirations sociales et économiques du Mouvement moderne sans pour autant renoncer au " superflu ", c'est-à-dire à la qualité artistique et à l'ornementation. Cette recherche, qui apparaît dans son ouvrage théorique À travers les villes (1930) et dans son projet d'urbanisation de Budapest (1933-1937), trouve son aboutissement dans son projet théorique de reconstruction opposé aux préceptes des CIAM et de la Charte d'Athènes : la Ville de l'Avenir (1940-1945)
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64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 28 cm
Zürich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2019], ©2019
Josef Frank : Villa Carlsten / author: Mikael Bergquist ; photography: Mikael Olsson.
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What is modern about Modern design? Most books end the discussion of Modernism in the mid-twentieth century; this one shows how it has been reborn and transformed in the last sixty years and today is being created in fresh, original, and technologically innovative forms that are iconic and quirky, innovative and nostalgic, technologically daring and warmly familiar.
Design after modernism: furniture and interiors 1970-2010
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What is modern about Modern design? Most books end the discussion of Modernism in the mid-twentieth century; this one shows how it has been reborn and transformed in the last sixty years and today is being created in fresh, original, and technologically innovative forms that are iconic and quirky, innovative and nostalgic, technologically daring and warmly familiar.
Industrial Design
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In the late 19th century, a centuries-old preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects—cups, saucers, chairs, and tables—began to receive critical attention. Alina Payne addresses this shift, arguing for a new understanding of the genealogy of architectural(...)
From ornament to object: genealogies of architectural modernism
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In the late 19th century, a centuries-old preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects—cups, saucers, chairs, and tables—began to receive critical attention. Alina Payne addresses this shift, arguing for a new understanding of the genealogy of architectural modernism: rather than the well-known story in which an absorption of technology and mass production created a radical aesthetic that broke decisively with the past, Payne argues for a more gradual shift, as the eloquence of architectural ornamentation was taken on by objects of daily use. As she demonstrates, the work of Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier should be seen as the culmination of a conversation about ornament dating as far back as the Renaissance. Payne looks beyond the usual suspects of philosophy and science to establish theoretical catalysts for the shift from ornament to object in the varied fields of anthropology and ethnology; art history and the museum; and archaeology and psychology.
Architectural Theory
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Naïve documents the return of classical graphic design reminiscent of the 1940s to 1960s in contemporary graphic design. Friedrich von Schiller a minimalist design vocabulary is currently being reinvented by a troop of young graphic designers who are rediscovering the stylistic elements reminiscent of classic graphic design such as silkscreen printing, classical(...)
Naïve: Modernism and folklore in contemporary graphic design
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Naïve documents the return of classical graphic design reminiscent of the 1940s to 1960s in contemporary graphic design. Friedrich von Schiller a minimalist design vocabulary is currently being reinvented by a troop of young graphic designers who are rediscovering the stylistic elements reminiscent of classic graphic design such as silkscreen printing, classical typography, hand lettering, woodcutting and folk art and integrating them into their work. Naïve documents this extraordinary renaissance of Classic Modernism, from the 1940s to 1960s, in contemporary graphic design. Inspired by twentieth century American legends such as Saul Bass, the undisputed master of film title design and iconic logos as well as modernist graphic artist Charley Harper and textile designer Alexander Girard, these burgeoning designers are creating new and striking imagery using palettes of earthy and pastel shades, reduced strokes, patterns and shapes with a strong folkloristic element. Naïve illustrates this new development in graphic design, assembling a multitude of vivid and inspiring examples ranging from illustrations, poster art, editorials, book covers and record sleeves to stationery and textiles.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities, and aesthetics, but this book provides an alternative genealogy. Exemplary cases show electronic literature(...)
Digital modernism: making it new in new media
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Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities, and aesthetics, but this book provides an alternative genealogy. Exemplary cases show electronic literature looking back to modernism for inspiration and source material (in content, form, and ideology) through which to critique contemporary culture. In so doing, this literature renews and reframes, rather than rejects, a literary tradition that it also reconfigures to center around media.
Art Theory
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"Against reason: Volume 2" is the companion publication to Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné: Architecture, the second in a two-volume, four-book printed publication series dedicated to Tony Smith's sculpture and architecture. Edited by curator and historian James Voorhies, Against Reason gathers newly commissioned essays together with visual arts projects by practitioners(...)
Against reason: Tony Smith. Architecture and other modernisms
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"Against reason: Volume 2" is the companion publication to Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné: Architecture, the second in a two-volume, four-book printed publication series dedicated to Tony Smith's sculpture and architecture. Edited by curator and historian James Voorhies, Against Reason gathers newly commissioned essays together with visual arts projects by practitioners and critics, including Mario Gooden, Christopher Ketcham, Marta Kuzma, Peter L'Official, R.H. Quaytman, and Jasmine Rault. Their contributions from a wide range of disciplines— from American studies, architecture, and art history to theory, design, and visual art—place Smith's architectural design work in dialogue with contemporary culture, expanding perspectives on the artist's canonical work and offering fresh twenty-first-century insights.
Architectural Theory
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Between the early 1930s and 1950s, modernist architecture underwent a spectacular change of fortune in Britain – from a small-scale avant-garde movement, to the official, state-funded architectural idiom of the post-1945 Welfare State. FRS Yorke (1906–62) was an architect who completely followed that trajectory. His book "The modern house" (1934) placed his detailed(...)
FRS Yorke and the evolution of English modernism
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Between the early 1930s and 1950s, modernist architecture underwent a spectacular change of fortune in Britain – from a small-scale avant-garde movement, to the official, state-funded architectural idiom of the post-1945 Welfare State. FRS Yorke (1906–62) was an architect who completely followed that trajectory. His book "The modern house" (1934) placed his detailed knowledge of European architecture as an introduction to modern architecture for generations of architects, and provided inspiration for his own designs. But it was only after World War II, and the social and political change which came in its wake, that Yorke was able to turn his reputation as a modernist into commercial success. As his pre-War contemporaries gave up architecture or moved abroad, his practice – Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall – drew on his experience of working on large, state-funded construction projects during the War, and participated in the transformation of Britain’s social and physical fabric with its new housing, hospitals, schools, universities and airports. This book concludes with a memoir by David Allford, who worked with Yorke and Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall from 1952 until 1989.
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition curated by Mathieu Lommen at the Special Collections facility of the University of Amsterdam, this book by design historian Frederike Huygen explores modernism in Dutch graphic design of the 20th century. Divided into three periods – pre-war, post-war, and from 1990 to the present – it emphasises the various aspects and meanings(...)
Modernism in print: Dutch graphic design 1917-2017
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition curated by Mathieu Lommen at the Special Collections facility of the University of Amsterdam, this book by design historian Frederike Huygen explores modernism in Dutch graphic design of the 20th century. Divided into three periods – pre-war, post-war, and from 1990 to the present – it emphasises the various aspects and meanings of the term “modernism”, and how its concept dominates the discourse on graphic design, through an extensive overview of the subject. Moreover, it questions the canon by including some less well-known examples of graphic design work, thereby giving recognition to an often underestimated complexity.
Graphic Design and Typography
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In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the(...)
The rhetoric of modernism: Le Corbusier as a lecturer
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In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary notes, accompanying drawings, and photographs that Le Corbusier produced in connection with his lectures are presented and contextualized by one of the leading experts on the great architect. In them we see modernism at work. Always a great rhetorician and a master at staging his own persona, Le Corbusier takes the arguments and strategies, seminal ideas and most convincing highlights and fuses them into an architectural conception that every advanced architectural position and practice must still come to terms with today.
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