San Rocco 14: 66
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1966 was a promising year. Aldo Rossi published "The Architecture of the City" and Robert Venturi came out with "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture". The stage seemed set for a productive critique of modernism and the development of a more mature approach to the intricacies of architecture. Architecture seemed on the verge of rediscovering its collective nature(...)
San Rocco 14: 66
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1966 was a promising year. Aldo Rossi published "The Architecture of the City" and Robert Venturi came out with "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture". The stage seemed set for a productive critique of modernism and the development of a more mature approach to the intricacies of architecture. Architecture seemed on the verge of rediscovering its collective nature and about to redefine its knowledge by starting from the city.
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Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T models, designed for mass production, he found himself at the beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn?s(...)
Albert Kahn's industrial architecture: form follows performance
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Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T models, designed for mass production, he found himself at the beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn?s industrial developments became the guiding principle for the New Building movement up until today.
Architecture Monographs
Field event / field space
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A collection of two and three dimensional studies describing an architecture and urbanism which proceeds from the idea of field or ground as the basis for a radical architecture. Collecting together detailed studies of the urbanisms of central European cities and cities of the former East Block, Field Event/Field Space takes a critical view of contemporary(...)
Field event / field space
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A collection of two and three dimensional studies describing an architecture and urbanism which proceeds from the idea of field or ground as the basis for a radical architecture. Collecting together detailed studies of the urbanisms of central European cities and cities of the former East Block, Field Event/Field Space takes a critical view of contemporary urban ideas, proposing stategies which counter the dominant paradigm of an oppositional Modernism.
Architectural Theory
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Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul-Émile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Illustrated with photographs from the period, this classic text details the social and political implications of the radical art scene that led up to Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. It is a(...)
Total refusal. Refus Global: the complete manifest
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Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul-Émile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Illustrated with photographs from the period, this classic text details the social and political implications of the radical art scene that led up to Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. It is a must read for anyone interested in modernism or contemporary Canadian history.
Art Theory
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Custom and Innovation: John Miller + Partners is the first publication devoted to the work of John Miller + Partners, and explores Miller’s work from his student days at the Architectural Association, to his present practice as a multi-award winning firm. The book provides an insight into the contemporary fascination with museum buildings as well as the revived interest(...)
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July 2009
Custom and innovation, John Miller + Partners
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Custom and Innovation: John Miller + Partners is the first publication devoted to the work of John Miller + Partners, and explores Miller’s work from his student days at the Architectural Association, to his present practice as a multi-award winning firm. The book provides an insight into the contemporary fascination with museum buildings as well as the revived interest on post-war modernism both in Europe and the USA.
Architecture Monographs
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Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and(...)
Architectural Theory
January 2010
Modern architecture and the Mediterranean: vernacular dialogues and contested identities
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Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.
Architectural Theory
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To commemorate the life and work of Dennis Sharp (1933–2010), Sharp Words collates together a variety of essays that touch upon each of his architectural fascinations – among them, glass architecture, picture palaces, masters of concrete and English modernism. Punctuating these texts are a number of editorials from his days as editor of AAQ, which graphically as(...)
Sharp words: selected essays of Dennis Sharp
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To commemorate the life and work of Dennis Sharp (1933–2010), Sharp Words collates together a variety of essays that touch upon each of his architectural fascinations – among them, glass architecture, picture palaces, masters of concrete and English modernism. Punctuating these texts are a number of editorials from his days as editor of AAQ, which graphically as much as intellectually offer emblems of his time at the AA.
Architectural Theory
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195 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Heiden : A. Niggli, ©1990.
Hannes Meyer : Dokumente zur Frühzeit, Architektur- und Gestaltungsversuche 1919-1927 / Martin Kieren.
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477 pages : illustrations
Saint-Etienne : Publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, 2005.
La réception de l'architecture du mouvement moderne = The reception of architecture of the modern movement : Image, usage, héritage = Image, usage, heritage. Septième conférence internationale de DOCOMOMO = Seventh international DOCOMOMO conference, Paris 16-19 septembre 2002, palais de l'UNESCO / éditée par = edited by Jean-Yves Andrieux, Fabienne Chevallier.
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Breuer's Bohemia : the architect, his circle, and midcentury houses in New England / James Crump.
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247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
New York, New York : Monacelli, [2021], ©2021
Breuer's Bohemia : the architect, his circle, and midcentury houses in New England / James Crump.
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