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Niemeyer (ed. français)
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Jusqu'à sa mort, à l'âge de 104 ans, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) fut animé d'une force irrésistible en matière d'architecture. Durant plus de soixante-dix ans de carrière, il a conçu près de 600 bâtiments, des gratte-ciel en mouvement de Bab-Ezzouar en Algérie au chef-d'oeuvre qu'il réalisa pour son pays, Brasília. Le travail de Niemeyer emprunte aux formes simplifiées du(...)
Niemeyer (ed. français)
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Jusqu'à sa mort, à l'âge de 104 ans, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) fut animé d'une force irrésistible en matière d'architecture. Durant plus de soixante-dix ans de carrière, il a conçu près de 600 bâtiments, des gratte-ciel en mouvement de Bab-Ezzouar en Algérie au chef-d'oeuvre qu'il réalisa pour son pays, Brasília. Le travail de Niemeyer emprunte aux formes simplifiées du modernisme pour leur insuffler une grâce fluide. Loin de toute sévérité austère, ses constructions ondulent sous l'effet de leurs lignes sinueuses et envoûtantes. À l'image de bâtiments tels que le musée d'art contemporain Niterói, l'Edifício Copan ou la cathédrale de Brasília, il a apporté cambrure et rondeur à la jungle bétonnée des villes. Pour Brasília, la capitale fédérale futuriste, il a réalisé près de la totalité des édifices publics et est ainsi devenu inséparable de l'image du Brésil dans le monde. À travers de riches illustrations et des mises en lumière de certains moments de sa prolifique carrière, cet ouvrage présente la vision unique de Niemeyer et sa profonde influence sur les bâtiments d'affaires, les édifices religieux ou culturels, et sur l'image du Brésil dans l'inconscient collectif.
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Architecture Monographs
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ix, 179 pages illustrations 27 cm
New York, G. Braziller [1974], ©1974
Origins of modern sculpture: pioneers and premises [by] Albert E. Elsen.
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New York, G. Braziller [1974], ©1974
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237, [11] pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 x 26 cm
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2002.
Paul Rudolph : the Florida houses / Christopher Domin and Joseph King.
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2002.
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xi, 357 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013], ©2013
Pedestrian modern : shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956 / David Smiley.
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013], ©2013
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The Soviet Union has left a vast heritage in interior design that is largely unknown in the West. Other than architecture and graphic or product design, interior design from the Soviet era has not yet been thoroughly investigated. This publication offers a comprehensive survey of the country's interior design culture between revolutionary avant-garde and late Soviet(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
April 2020
Soviet design: from Constructivism to Modernism, 1920-1980
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The Soviet Union has left a vast heritage in interior design that is largely unknown in the West. Other than architecture and graphic or product design, interior design from the Soviet era has not yet been thoroughly investigated. This publication offers a comprehensive survey of the country's interior design culture between revolutionary avant-garde and late Soviet modernism. Drawing on archives that were inaccessible until recently and featuring a wealth of previously unpublished material, it documents the achievements of seven decades in the former socialist empire.
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Modern art in Eastern Europe : from the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939 / S.A. Mansbach.
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xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Modern art in Eastern Europe : from the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939 / S.A. Mansbach.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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'Modernism and modernity : the Vancouver conference papers' was originally published as the proceedings from a conference held in Vancouver, B.C., in 1983. This publication constitutes a major contribution to the rethinking of the history and debates concerning modernism and modernity.
Architectural Theory
June 2004, Halifax
Modernism and modernity : the Vancouver conference papers
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'Modernism and modernity : the Vancouver conference papers' was originally published as the proceedings from a conference held in Vancouver, B.C., in 1983. This publication constitutes a major contribution to the rethinking of the history and debates concerning modernism and modernity.
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June 2004, Halifax
Architectural Theory
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199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Milano : Charta, [1997], ©1997
Christian Boltanski / a cura di Danilo Eccher.
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Milano : Charta, [1997], ©1997
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Julius Ralph Davidson is widely known as the architect of Thomas Mann’s house. Born 1889 in Berlin, Davidson left Germany in 1923 and emigrated to the USA. In Los Angeles, he designed some 150 projects, among them three houses for the experimental Case Study House Program. This publication is a comprehensive documentation of Davidson’s life and work, highlighting J.R.’s(...)
Julius Ralph Davidson: a European contribution to California modernism
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Julius Ralph Davidson is widely known as the architect of Thomas Mann’s house. Born 1889 in Berlin, Davidson left Germany in 1923 and emigrated to the USA. In Los Angeles, he designed some 150 projects, among them three houses for the experimental Case Study House Program. This publication is a comprehensive documentation of Davidson’s life and work, highlighting J.R.’s contribution to modernism in California in the 1930s and 1940s.
Architecture Monographs
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In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar American architecture and culture. He considers sword-and-sandal films of the 1950s and 1960s—including forgotten gems such as Land of the Pharaohs, Helen of Troy, and The Egyptian—and their protean, ideologically charged representations of totalitarianism and democracy. He connects(...)
Flintstone modernism: or the crisis in postwar American culture
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In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar American architecture and culture. He considers sword-and-sandal films of the 1950s and 1960s—including forgotten gems such as Land of the Pharaohs, Helen of Troy, and The Egyptian—and their protean, ideologically charged representations of totalitarianism and democracy. He connects Cinemascope and other widescreen technologies to the architectural “glass curtain wall,” arguing that both represented the all-encompassing eye of American Enterprise. Lieber reminds us that until recently midcentury modern American architecture was reviled by architectural historians but celebrated by design enthusiasts, just as sword-and-sandal epics are alternately hailed as cult classics or derided as camp.
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