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Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and influences of some of the least studied figures of the era: established and less well-known female landscape architects who pursued modernist ideals in their designs. The women(...)
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Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and influences of some of the least studied figures of the era: established and less well-known female landscape architects who pursued modernist ideals in their designs. The women(...)
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Women, modernity, and landscape architecture
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Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and influences of some of the least studied figures of the era: established and less well-known female landscape architects who pursued modernist ideals in their designs. The women discussed in this volume belong to the pioneering first two generations of professional landscape architects and were outstanding in the field. They not only developed notable practices but some also became leaders in landscape architectural education as the first professors in the discipline, or prolific lecturers and authors. As early professionals who navigated the world of a male-dominated intellectual and menial work force they were exponents of modernity. In addition, many personalities discussed in this volume were either figures of transition between tradition and modernism (like Silvia Crowe, Maria Teresa Parpagliolo), or they fully embraced and furthered the modernist agenda (like Rosa Kliass, Cornelia Oberlander).
Women, modernity, and landscape architecture
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Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and influences of some of the least studied figures of the era: established and less well-known female landscape architects who pursued modernist ideals in their designs. The women discussed in this volume belong to the pioneering first two generations of professional landscape architects and were outstanding in the field. They not only developed notable practices but some also became leaders in landscape architectural education as the first professors in the discipline, or prolific lecturers and authors. As early professionals who navigated the world of a male-dominated intellectual and menial work force they were exponents of modernity. In addition, many personalities discussed in this volume were either figures of transition between tradition and modernism (like Silvia Crowe, Maria Teresa Parpagliolo), or they fully embraced and furthered the modernist agenda (like Rosa Kliass, Cornelia Oberlander).
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April 2015
April 2015
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299 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
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299 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
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- Green, Renée Exhibitions.,
- Green, Renée Interviews.,
- Green, Renée,
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Exhibitions.,
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
- Art, American 21st century Exhibitions.,
- Installations (Art) Massachusetts Cambridge Exhibitions.,
- Installations (Art) Massachusetts Cambridge.,
- Art américain 21e siècle Expositions.,
- Installations (Art) Massachusetts Cambridge Expositions.,
- Art, American,
- Installations (Art),
- Massachusetts Cambridge,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- interviews.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- Interviews,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Cambridge, MA : Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University ; Somerville, MA ; New York, NY : Free Agent Media, [2020], ©2020
Cambridge, MA : Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University ; Somerville, MA ; New York, NY : Free Agent Media, [2020], ©2020
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Pacing / Renée Green ; foreword, Dan Byers ; editors, Stacey Allan and Lucy Flint.
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299 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Pacing / Renée Green ; foreword, Dan Byers ; editors, Stacey Allan and Lucy Flint.
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Cambridge, MA : Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University ; Somerville, MA ; New York, NY : Free Agent Media, [2020], ©2020
Cambridge, MA : Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University ; Somerville, MA ; New York, NY : Free Agent Media, [2020], ©2020
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- Green, Renée Exhibitions.,
- Green, Renée Interviews.,
- Green, Renée,
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Exhibitions.,
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
- Art, American 21st century Exhibitions.,
- Installations (Art) Massachusetts Cambridge Exhibitions.,
- Installations (Art) Massachusetts Cambridge.,
- Art américain 21e siècle Expositions.,
- Installations (Art) Massachusetts Cambridge Expositions.,
- Art, American,
- Installations (Art),
- Massachusetts Cambridge,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- interviews.,
- Exhibition catalogs,
- Interviews,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Exhibitions.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Exhibitions.,
- Loos Adolf Hausbau.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Catalogues.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Catalogues.,
- Architecture, Domestic Europe Exhibitions.,
- Interior architecture Europe Exhibitions.,
- Architecture Europe History 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Architecture Europe 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Architecture intérieure Europe 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Architecture Europe 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Architecture domestique Europe Expositions.,
- Architecture intérieure Europe Expositions.,
- Architecture,
- Architecture, Domestic,
- Interior architecture,
- Woningen,
- Bouwkunst,
- Modernisme (cultuur),
- Europe,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- History,
- Tentoonstellingscatalogi (vorm),
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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New York : Rizzoli, 1988.
New York : Rizzoli, 1988.
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Raumplan versus Plan libre : Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier 1919-1930 / edited by Max Risselada ; with contributions by Beatriz Colomina [and others].
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150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Raumplan versus Plan libre : Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier 1919-1930 / edited by Max Risselada ; with contributions by Beatriz Colomina [and others].
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150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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New York : Rizzoli, 1988.
New York : Rizzoli, 1988.
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- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Exhibitions.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Exhibitions.,
- Loos Adolf Hausbau.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.,
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Catalogues.,
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Catalogues.,
- Architecture, Domestic Europe Exhibitions.,
- Interior architecture Europe Exhibitions.,
- Architecture Europe History 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Architecture Europe 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Architecture intérieure Europe 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Architecture Europe 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Architecture domestique Europe Expositions.,
- Architecture intérieure Europe Expositions.,
- Architecture,
- Architecture, Domestic,
- Interior architecture,
- Woningen,
- Bouwkunst,
- Modernisme (cultuur),
- Europe,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- History,
- Tentoonstellingscatalogi (vorm),
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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173 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm
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173 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm
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- Midcentury modern (Architecture) Connecticut New Canaan.,
- Architecture Connecticut New Canaan History 20th century.,
- Architecture domestique Connecticut New Canaan Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Modernisme du milieu du siècle (Architecture) Connecticut New Canaan.,
- Architecture Connecticut New Canaan Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Architecture.,
- Buildings.,
- Midcentury modern (Architecture),
- New Canaan (Conn.) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- New Canaan (Conn.) Constructions.,
- Connecticut New Canaan.,
- History.
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New York : W.W. Norton, ©2006.
New York : W.W. Norton, ©2006.
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The Harvard Five in New Canaan : midcentury modern houses by Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes & others / William D. Earls.
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173 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm
The Harvard Five in New Canaan : midcentury modern houses by Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes & others / William D. Earls.
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173 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm
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New York : W.W. Norton, ©2006.
New York : W.W. Norton, ©2006.
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- Midcentury modern (Architecture) Connecticut New Canaan.,
- Architecture Connecticut New Canaan History 20th century.,
- Architecture domestique Connecticut New Canaan Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Modernisme du milieu du siècle (Architecture) Connecticut New Canaan.,
- Architecture Connecticut New Canaan Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Architecture.,
- Buildings.,
- Midcentury modern (Architecture),
- New Canaan (Conn.) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- New Canaan (Conn.) Constructions.,
- Connecticut New Canaan.,
- History.
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How, when, and why modern art came to New York / Marius de Zayas ; edited by Francis M. Naumann.
How, when, and why modern art came to New York / Marius de Zayas ; edited by Francis M. Naumann.
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xiv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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xiv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Zayas, Marius de.,
- Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946.,
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.,
- Zayas, Marius de, (1880-1961) Influence.,
- Naumann, Francis M. Influence.,
- Stieglitz, Alfred, (1864-1946) Influence.,
- Art, Modern 20th century Marketing.,
- Art patronage New York (State) New York.,
- Art appreciation New York (State) New York.,
- Art New York (État) New York 20e siècle Commercialisation.,
- Mécénat New York (État) New York.,
- Art Appréciation New York (État) New York.,
- Art appreciation,
- Art, Modern Marketing,
- Art patronage,
- Modernisme (cultuur),
- Kunstreceptie.,
- Kunstbevordering.,
- Art 20e siècle Marketing.,
- Critique d'art New York (State) New York.,
- New York (State) New York,
- New York (N.Y.),
- Visual arts,
- Books.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
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How, when, and why modern art came to New York / Marius de Zayas ; edited by Francis M. Naumann.
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xiv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
How, when, and why modern art came to New York / Marius de Zayas ; edited by Francis M. Naumann.
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xiv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.
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- Zayas, Marius de.,
- Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946.,
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.,
- Zayas, Marius de, (1880-1961) Influence.,
- Naumann, Francis M. Influence.,
- Stieglitz, Alfred, (1864-1946) Influence.,
- Art, Modern 20th century Marketing.,
- Art patronage New York (State) New York.,
- Art appreciation New York (State) New York.,
- Art New York (État) New York 20e siècle Commercialisation.,
- Mécénat New York (État) New York.,
- Art Appréciation New York (État) New York.,
- Art appreciation,
- Art, Modern Marketing,
- Art patronage,
- Modernisme (cultuur),
- Kunstreceptie.,
- Kunstbevordering.,
- Art 20e siècle Marketing.,
- Critique d'art New York (State) New York.,
- New York (State) New York,
- New York (N.Y.),
- Visual arts,
- Books.
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446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Library main 211205 | NA44.P479.A35 2000 | Available
- Library main 211206 | NA44.P479.A35 2000 | Available
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446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- City planning Germany Karlsruhe History 20th century.,
- City planning Netherlands Rotterdam History 20th century.,
- City planning France Marseille History 20th century.,
- Architecture, Domestic Germany Karlsruhe.,
- Architecture, Domestic Netherlands Rotterdam.,
- Architecture, Domestic France Marseille.,
- Architecture, Domestic.,
- City planning.,
- Paradigma,
- Stadtforschung,
- Stadtteilplanung,
- Städtebau,
- Woonwijken.,
- Modernisme (cultuur),
- Urbanisme France Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) 20e siècle.,
- Urbanisme Allemagne Karlsruhe 20e siècle.,
- Urbanisme Pays-Bas Rotterdam 20e siècle.,
- Villes nouvelles Allemagne 20e siècle.,
- Villes nouvelles France 20e siècle.,
- Villes nouvelles Pays-Bas 20e siècle.,
- France Marseille.,
- Germany Karlsruhe.,
- Netherlands Rotterdam.,
- Deutschland,
- Frankreich,
- Karlsruhe-Rüppurr,
- Niederlande,
- Rotterdam-Spangen,
- Siedlung Dammerstock,
- Unité d'Habitation,
- Karlsruhe Siedlung Dammerstock.,
- Marseille Unité d'Habitation.,
- Geschichte 1910-1950,
- Writings.,
- History.
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Berlin : Gebr. Mann, ©2000.
Berlin : Gebr. Mann, ©2000.
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Wohnung, Siedlung, Stadt : Paradigmen der Moderne 1910-1950 / Michael Peterek.
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446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Wohnung, Siedlung, Stadt : Paradigmen der Moderne 1910-1950 / Michael Peterek.
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446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Berlin : Gebr. Mann, ©2000.
Berlin : Gebr. Mann, ©2000.
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- City planning Germany Karlsruhe History 20th century.,
- City planning Netherlands Rotterdam History 20th century.,
- City planning France Marseille History 20th century.,
- Architecture, Domestic Germany Karlsruhe.,
- Architecture, Domestic Netherlands Rotterdam.,
- Architecture, Domestic France Marseille.,
- Architecture, Domestic.,
- City planning.,
- Paradigma,
- Stadtforschung,
- Stadtteilplanung,
- Städtebau,
- Woonwijken.,
- Modernisme (cultuur),
- Urbanisme France Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) 20e siècle.,
- Urbanisme Allemagne Karlsruhe 20e siècle.,
- Urbanisme Pays-Bas Rotterdam 20e siècle.,
- Villes nouvelles Allemagne 20e siècle.,
- Villes nouvelles France 20e siècle.,
- Villes nouvelles Pays-Bas 20e siècle.,
- France Marseille.,
- Germany Karlsruhe.,
- Netherlands Rotterdam.,
- Deutschland,
- Frankreich,
- Karlsruhe-Rüppurr,
- Niederlande,
- Rotterdam-Spangen,
- Siedlung Dammerstock,
- Unité d'Habitation,
- Karlsruhe Siedlung Dammerstock.,
- Marseille Unité d'Habitation.,
- Geschichte 1910-1950,
- Writings.,
- History.
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201 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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201 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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[Genève] : Métis Presses, [2022].
[Genève] : Métis Presses, [2022].
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Terrain critique : des nouveaux usages de l'art en urbanisme / Thierry Maeder.
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201 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Terrain critique : des nouveaux usages de l'art en urbanisme / Thierry Maeder.
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[Genève] : Métis Presses, [2022].
[Genève] : Métis Presses, [2022].
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''Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern'' tells the captivating story of Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black woman architect, artist, and educator born into the Jim Crow South, whose bold choices in both life and architecture expand our understanding of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, while revealing the importance of architecture as a force in Black(...)
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''Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern'' tells the captivating story of Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black woman architect, artist, and educator born into the Jim Crow South, whose bold choices in both life and architecture expand our understanding of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, while revealing the importance of architecture as a force in Black(...)
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Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern: Architecture and the Black Amercian middle class
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''Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern'' tells the captivating story of Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black woman architect, artist, and educator born into the Jim Crow South, whose bold choices in both life and architecture expand our understanding of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, while revealing the importance of architecture as a force in Black middle-class identity. Through her charismatic protagonist, Jacqueline Taylor derives new insights into the experiences of Black women at the forefront of culture in early twentieth-century America, caught between expectation and ambition, responsibility and desire. Central to Taylor’s argument is that Meredith’s response to modern architecture and art, like those of other Black cultural producers, was not marginal to the modernist project; instead, her work reveals the tensions and inconsistencies in how American modernism has been defined. In this way, the book shines a necessary light on modernism’s complexity, while overturning perceived notions of race and gender in relation to the modernist project and challenging the notion of the white male hero of modern architecture.
Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern: Architecture and the Black Amercian middle class
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''Amaza Lee Meredith imagines herself modern'' tells the captivating story of Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black woman architect, artist, and educator born into the Jim Crow South, whose bold choices in both life and architecture expand our understanding of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, while revealing the importance of architecture as a force in Black middle-class identity. Through her charismatic protagonist, Jacqueline Taylor derives new insights into the experiences of Black women at the forefront of culture in early twentieth-century America, caught between expectation and ambition, responsibility and desire. Central to Taylor’s argument is that Meredith’s response to modern architecture and art, like those of other Black cultural producers, was not marginal to the modernist project; instead, her work reveals the tensions and inconsistencies in how American modernism has been defined. In this way, the book shines a necessary light on modernism’s complexity, while overturning perceived notions of race and gender in relation to the modernist project and challenging the notion of the white male hero of modern architecture.
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November 2023
November 2023
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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In the 1970s, a void opened at the heart of architecture. In hotels, offices, public buildings, and commercial centers, the atrium emerged globally to challenge the modernist legacies of form and function, altering the pattern and experience of cities. While often appearing at vast scale and to striking effect, the atrium also became omnipresent and mundane. In this(...)
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In the 1970s, a void opened at the heart of architecture. In hotels, offices, public buildings, and commercial centers, the atrium emerged globally to challenge the modernist legacies of form and function, altering the pattern and experience of cities. While often appearing at vast scale and to striking effect, the atrium also became omnipresent and mundane. In this(...)
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Atrium
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In the 1970s, a void opened at the heart of architecture. In hotels, offices, public buildings, and commercial centers, the atrium emerged globally to challenge the modernist legacies of form and function, altering the pattern and experience of cities. While often appearing at vast scale and to striking effect, the atrium also became omnipresent and mundane. In this lively critique, Charles Rice charts the atrium's appearance in the 1970s and its development through the 1980s, as it accompanied profound shifts in the discipline and practice of architecture. During this period, architectural practice especially in the United States and United Kingdom was changing rapidly, due in part to the manifold effects of deregulation. All aspects of the way buildings were designed, developed, regulated, built, managed, and occupied were being reshaped. A practice guided by the progressive tenets of modernism was being turned into a professional service fully integrated within neoliberal social and economic imperatives. As Rice shows, the atrium gives this story a distinct spatial and material figure, one that offers an inside view of architecture in transformation.
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In the 1970s, a void opened at the heart of architecture. In hotels, offices, public buildings, and commercial centers, the atrium emerged globally to challenge the modernist legacies of form and function, altering the pattern and experience of cities. While often appearing at vast scale and to striking effect, the atrium also became omnipresent and mundane. In this lively critique, Charles Rice charts the atrium's appearance in the 1970s and its development through the 1980s, as it accompanied profound shifts in the discipline and practice of architecture. During this period, architectural practice especially in the United States and United Kingdom was changing rapidly, due in part to the manifold effects of deregulation. All aspects of the way buildings were designed, developed, regulated, built, managed, and occupied were being reshaped. A practice guided by the progressive tenets of modernism was being turned into a professional service fully integrated within neoliberal social and economic imperatives. As Rice shows, the atrium gives this story a distinct spatial and material figure, one that offers an inside view of architecture in transformation.
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October 2023
October 2023
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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"The Portfolio and the Diagram" is about the changing ways architects see, read, and use the words and images of architectural publications. It begins with an outline of the academic discipline and the mimetic practice of the portfolio, established in America during the late nineteenth century. World War I triggered a historical process that resulted in the demise of the(...)
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"The Portfolio and the Diagram" is about the changing ways architects see, read, and use the words and images of architectural publications. It begins with an outline of the academic discipline and the mimetic practice of the portfolio, established in America during the late nineteenth century. World War I triggered a historical process that resulted in the demise of the(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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April 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The portfolio and the diagram : architecture, discourse, and modernity in America
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"The Portfolio and the Diagram" is about the changing ways architects see, read, and use the words and images of architectural publications. It begins with an outline of the academic discipline and the mimetic practice of the portfolio, established in America during the late nineteenth century. World War I triggered a historical process that resulted in the demise of the portfolio and the emergence of the discourse of the diagram. The Beaux Arts-trained architects had fashioned their discipline through the meticulous object-centered images of the portfolio. The discourse of the diagram provided a new range of possibility in the architect’s relation to words, images, and buildings. More than the diagram itself, more than the province of narrow-minded functionalists, the discourse of the diagram is a complex formation of texts, concepts, and modes of representation. Concerned less with constructing a new kind of modernism than with understanding the boundaries and structures of modernity, the book is a history of modern architecture as a discursive practice and its striving to become a viable discipline.
The portfolio and the diagram : architecture, discourse, and modernity in America
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"The Portfolio and the Diagram" is about the changing ways architects see, read, and use the words and images of architectural publications. It begins with an outline of the academic discipline and the mimetic practice of the portfolio, established in America during the late nineteenth century. World War I triggered a historical process that resulted in the demise of the portfolio and the emergence of the discourse of the diagram. The Beaux Arts-trained architects had fashioned their discipline through the meticulous object-centered images of the portfolio. The discourse of the diagram provided a new range of possibility in the architect’s relation to words, images, and buildings. More than the diagram itself, more than the province of narrow-minded functionalists, the discourse of the diagram is a complex formation of texts, concepts, and modes of representation. Concerned less with constructing a new kind of modernism than with understanding the boundaries and structures of modernity, the book is a history of modern architecture as a discursive practice and its striving to become a viable discipline.
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April 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 2002, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
