Urban space
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Klaus Theo Brenner’s architectural study of the development of modernism in European architecture includes archival photographs published as postcards in the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary portraits of Milan’s architecture from the 1920s and 1930s taken by René Wildgrube.
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Klaus Theo Brenner’s architectural study of the development of modernism in European architecture includes archival photographs published as postcards in the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary portraits of Milan’s architecture from the 1920s and 1930s taken by René Wildgrube.
Urban Theory
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The author has updated his 1979 survey of Western civilization and has extended it to include the recent years of post-modernism and urbanism, the New Right wing ideology of the eighties, and the rising environmental concerns of the nineties.
Story of Western architecture (revised edition)
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The author has updated his 1979 survey of Western civilization and has extended it to include the recent years of post-modernism and urbanism, the New Right wing ideology of the eighties, and the rising environmental concerns of the nineties.
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September 1997, Cambridge, Mass.
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Gunnar Asplund
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Although a contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Asplund pursued an architecture that does not fit easily into their view of Modernism as a movement that rejected the applied styles and ornamentation of the nineteenth century. Instead, Asplund was at ease with classical or vernacular elements blending with modernist ideals, and displayed a sensitive(...)
Gunnar Asplund
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Although a contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Asplund pursued an architecture that does not fit easily into their view of Modernism as a movement that rejected the applied styles and ornamentation of the nineteenth century. Instead, Asplund was at ease with classical or vernacular elements blending with modernist ideals, and displayed a sensitive understanding of the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscape. His abilities are amply demonstrated in masterpieces like the Woodland Cemetery. In 1915 Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz won the competition to plan a new cemetery for Stockholm. Their romantic plan, in which a symbolically straight, narrow pathway abruptly curves blindly away into the forest, and with open fields capped by burial-mound-like hillocks, earned both of them further commissions for buildings within the cemetery. Asplund’s Woodland Chapel of 1920 is tucked into the forest and uses classical elements such as Doric columns, but sparingly and in unusual ways, while manipulating scale in ways that further the spiritual and contemplative nature of the building. The Crematorium and Monument Hall of 1935 are dignified and powerful, unornamented but not austere, to offer comfort to those who use them. The Gothenburg Law Courts, another critical work which was finally completed in 1937, shows how Asplund relates the architecture of Modernism to a historical plan and façade. Buildings such as the architect’s own summer house at Stennäs and the crematoria at Kviberg and Skövde, dating from the later part of his life when he had begun to embrace Modernism, still show traditional classical and vernacular influences and are evidence that not all forms of Modernism constituted a fresh start.
Architecture Monographs
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The book explores the origins and development of early 20th-century modernism in America through the lens of the major exhibitions that introduced this art to the general public. The author shows how modern artists and curators sought to relate high art to mass culture in order to make it accessible to more people, and successfully popularized modern painting and design(...)
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The modern eye, Stieglitz, Moma and the art of the exhibition, 1925-1934
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The book explores the origins and development of early 20th-century modernism in America through the lens of the major exhibitions that introduced this art to the general public. The author shows how modern artists and curators sought to relate high art to mass culture in order to make it accessible to more people, and successfully popularized modern painting and design during the interwar years.A major contribution to our understanding of the origins of modernism, this book captures the vibrant diversity that the term “modern art” meant at this time. The chapters examine exhibitions held in New York in the 1920s and 1930s, including those organized by Alfred Stieglitz, the Little Review, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
The modernist house
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This book presents a comprehensive, worldwide survey of 100 iconic houses from this important movement. This illustrated, broad reference book features examples from the early twentieth century to the present day, ranging from early Bauhaus architecture to the latest interpretations of Modernism.
The modernist house
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This book presents a comprehensive, worldwide survey of 100 iconic houses from this important movement. This illustrated, broad reference book features examples from the early twentieth century to the present day, ranging from early Bauhaus architecture to the latest interpretations of Modernism.
Residential Architecture
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The residences featured in this book are fine examples of the splendor and enchantment of Mediterranean architecture. They have been selected to pay homage to the various cultures that contribute to this resplendence and to illustrate the perfect fusion between tradition and modernism.
Mediterranean living | Vivre au bord de la méditerranée | Mediterranes wohnen
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The residences featured in this book are fine examples of the splendor and enchantment of Mediterranean architecture. They have been selected to pay homage to the various cultures that contribute to this resplendence and to illustrate the perfect fusion between tradition and modernism.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern—from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooked as a locus for modernism in the arts, its rich tradition of architecture, design, and education disregarded. Still the(...)
Chicago makes modern: how creative minds changed society
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Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern—from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooked as a locus for modernism in the arts, its rich tradition of architecture, design, and education disregarded. Still the modern in Chicago continues to thrive, as new generations of artists incorporate its legacy into fresh visions for the future. Chicago Makes Modern boldly remaps twentieth-century modernism from our new-century perspective by asking an imperative question: How did the modern mind—deeply reflective, yet simultaneously directed—help to dramatically alter our perspectives on the world and make it new?
Architectural Theory
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Presentation of the little known pioneering work of Arne Jacobsen in the field of architecture. Accompanies the exhibitions at six places of work of Jacobsen and Weitling throughout Germany. Scandinavian design meets German efficiency The architecture by Arne Jacobsen and Otto Weitling is of outstanding importance for post-war modernism in Germany. The calibre of their(...)
Gesamtkunstwerke: Architecture by Arne Jacobsen and Otto Weitling in Germany
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Presentation of the little known pioneering work of Arne Jacobsen in the field of architecture. Accompanies the exhibitions at six places of work of Jacobsen and Weitling throughout Germany. Scandinavian design meets German efficiency The architecture by Arne Jacobsen and Otto Weitling is of outstanding importance for post-war modernism in Germany. The calibre of their projects, however, has been forgotten. "Gesamtkunstkwerke" closes this gap in the appreciation of their work with a comprehensive presentation of seven out of eight German projects by the Danish master architects. Jacobsen and Weitling's Scandinavian functionalism is a reflection of the visions of the former FRG - designs and commissions grounded in democracy, prestige and efficiency. The publication also takes stock of how the legacy of late modernism is being handled.
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volumes <1-4> : illustrations ; 26 cm
New York : Random House, [1991], © 1991
A life of Picasso / John Richardson with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully.
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New York : Random House, [1991], © 1991
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De la Prohibition américaine sur les jeux et l'alcool dans les années 1920 à l'arrivée de Fidel Castro en 1959, Cuba accueille, bien avant Las Vegas, un glissement progressif du plaisir qui, d'antichambre du vice de Miami au tourisme familial, transforme la dictature du général Batista en un ludique et balnéaire parc à thème. Une Cythère de l'American Way of Life, une(...)
Modernisme et vanité: happy days à Miami et la Havane
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De la Prohibition américaine sur les jeux et l'alcool dans les années 1920 à l'arrivée de Fidel Castro en 1959, Cuba accueille, bien avant Las Vegas, un glissement progressif du plaisir qui, d'antichambre du vice de Miami au tourisme familial, transforme la dictature du général Batista en un ludique et balnéaire parc à thème. Une Cythère de l'American Way of Life, une pure vacance offshore, une plateforme du loisir en voie de massification. Après ses premiers succès au Fontainebleau (1954) et à l'Eden Roc (1955), l'architecte Morris Lapidus – le kitchissime maître du « bon goût » – et quelques autres seront les principaux promoteurs de ce too much is more ! Tout n'y est alors que jour sans fin : rhum Bacardi au pied d'hôtels-chantilly ou au bord de leur piscine-haricot. À l'ombre des palmiers, rien de nouveau...
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