L'esprit du Bauhaus
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Fondé à Weimar en 1919, dissout à Berlin en 1933 face à la montée du nazisme, le Bauhaus est une école d'enseignement artistique qui s'est imposée comme une référence incontournable de l'histoire de l'art au XXe siècle. Elle a été créée par l'architecte Walter Gropius pour redonner vie à l'habitat et à l'architecture grâce à une synthèse des arts plastiques, de(...)
L'esprit du Bauhaus
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Fondé à Weimar en 1919, dissout à Berlin en 1933 face à la montée du nazisme, le Bauhaus est une école d'enseignement artistique qui s'est imposée comme une référence incontournable de l'histoire de l'art au XXe siècle. Elle a été créée par l'architecte Walter Gropius pour redonner vie à l'habitat et à l'architecture grâce à une synthèse des arts plastiques, de l'artisanat et de l'industrie. Le coeur de ce livre reflète la diversité du champ des expérimentations menées à l'école : dessin, peinture, mobilier, sculpture, textile, céramique, mais aussi typographie, photographie et théâtre sont abordés sous l'angle des ateliers où les élèves de l'école recevaient les enseignements.
Modernism
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Swiss artist, architect, and theorist Max Bill (1908–94) was an important proponent of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in twentieth-century European applied arts and design. Trained at the Bauhaus with eminent figures like Wassily Kandinsky, Walter Gropius, and Paul Klee, Bill displayed an early virtuosity across a diverse range of fields, including(...)
Max Bill: no beginning, no end
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Swiss artist, architect, and theorist Max Bill (1908–94) was an important proponent of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in twentieth-century European applied arts and design. Trained at the Bauhaus with eminent figures like Wassily Kandinsky, Walter Gropius, and Paul Klee, Bill displayed an early virtuosity across a diverse range of fields, including painting, sculpture, architecture, typography, and design. In the 1950s, he collaborated with Inge Scholl and Otl Aicher to found the legendary Ulm College of Design, where he carried on the Bauhaus legacy as both artist and teacher and made a decisive and lasting contribution to twentieth-century cultural life.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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The fourth edition of the AIA guide to Washington's architecture offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 400 of the city's most important architectural landmarks, organized into 19 discrete tours. All entries carried over from the previous edition, published in 1994, have been rewritten, and numerous entries have been added. This(...)
AIA guide to the architecture of Washington, D.C.
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The fourth edition of the AIA guide to Washington's architecture offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 400 of the city's most important architectural landmarks, organized into 19 discrete tours. All entries carried over from the previous edition, published in 1994, have been rewritten, and numerous entries have been added. This edition includes notable new structures such as the National Museum of the American Indian, as well as the classics that epitomize the city - the White House, the Capitol, Union Station - in addition to a number of private structures that are sometimes overlooked, including houses designed by Walter Gropius and Richard Neutra.
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Ulrich Franzen was born in 1921 in Düsseldorf and studied architecture with Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. From 1950-55 he worked for I.M. Pei before opening his own architectural office in New (...)
The architecture of Ulrich Franzen
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Ulrich Franzen was born in 1921 in Düsseldorf and studied architecture with Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. From 1950-55 he worked for I.M. Pei before opening his own architectural office in New York in 1955. His encounter with Modernism had a determining influence on his work, and Franzen soon developed his own individual architectural language. Reference to context and collage, the bringing together of different elements in free composition are typical themes in his work. The spectrum of his architecture spans elegant, generous residences and severe, rigorous buildings for industry and research. He has also worked on projects in urban development.
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Bauhaus: a conceptual model
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One of Walter Gropius' guiding principles in founding the Bauhaus was that "design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society." As a result of this ethos, Bauhaus artists and designers experimented freely with everything from painting to furniture, producing countless(...)
Bauhaus: a conceptual model
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One of Walter Gropius' guiding principles in founding the Bauhaus was that "design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society." As a result of this ethos, Bauhaus artists and designers experimented freely with everything from painting to furniture, producing countless masterpieces in many genres. This comprehensive volume takes stock of the Bauhaus' output by highlighting 68 projects, with a particular focus on neglected aspects of the school's legacy. Also featured are essays by the Director of the Bauhaus-Museum in Weimar, Michael Siebenbrodt, and the artist and writer, Jeff Wall.
Modernism
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Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max(...)
The Giedion world: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in dialogue
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Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, Barbara Hepworth, Le Corbusier, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The interactions they initiated, for example, on the new vision in photography or the synthesis of arts continue to be highly relevant to the present day. "The Giedion World" offers a long-awaited reevaluation of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker’s work and lasting significance.
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The modern garden
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"The Modern Garden" is the first fully illustrated overview of the great gardens of the 20th century. It portrays hundreds of gardens, from the works of Geoffrey Jellicoe to Roberto Burle Marx, Russell Page to Dan Kiley, Isamu Noguchi to Richard Haag, (...)
The modern garden
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"The Modern Garden" is the first fully illustrated overview of the great gardens of the 20th century. It portrays hundreds of gardens, from the works of Geoffrey Jellicoe to Roberto Burle Marx, Russell Page to Dan Kiley, Isamu Noguchi to Richard Haag, created throughout the century and around the world. Twelve "masterwork" gardens are explored in special detail. Masterwork gardens featured: Guevrekian's Hyeres, France; Ludwig Gerns garden, Germany; Geoffrey Jellicoe garden, London; Fletcher Steele, Naumkeag, Massachusetts; Dan Kiley, Miller House, Indiana; Walter Gropius at home, Massachusetts; Mien Ruys, Dedmsvaart Garden, the Netherlands; Roberto Burle Marx, Brazil; Pietro Porcinai, Villa Il rosetto, Italy; Russell Page, Villa Silvio Pellico, Italy; Arne Jacobsen,St. Catherine's College England; Isamu Noguchi, the California Scenario.
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November 2000, New York
Gardens
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2019 : le bauhaus fondé et dirigé jusqu'en 1928 par l'architecte Walter Gropius a 100 ans. Plus qu'une école, ce fut un foyer, un centre d'où jaillirent des créations, des projets et des idées neuves pour une vie résolument moderne. Autoritairement fermée, ses flammes s’aviveront outre-Atlantique, mais aussi dans les républiques soviétiques et jusqu’au Japon ou en Inde.(...)
Modernism
November 2019
STAATLICHES Bauhaus : cent pour cent 1919-2019
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2019 : le bauhaus fondé et dirigé jusqu'en 1928 par l'architecte Walter Gropius a 100 ans. Plus qu'une école, ce fut un foyer, un centre d'où jaillirent des créations, des projets et des idées neuves pour une vie résolument moderne. Autoritairement fermée, ses flammes s’aviveront outre-Atlantique, mais aussi dans les républiques soviétiques et jusqu’au Japon ou en Inde. Filant ce précieux héritage, les courts testes proposés par 35 artistes, designers et théoriciens français, tous chercheurs, prélèvent et commentent. Ils forment une archive subjective et précise, qui déconstruit les « mythes », soulève des questions, ouvre des pistes et permet de découvrir des aspects essentiels et parfois insolites de la période bauhaus et des années qui suivirent.
Modernism
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Tomorrow’s Houses is a photographed presentation of the modernist houses in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, built during the early twentieth century through the 1960s. From the suburbs of Connecticut to the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, modernism in America found some of its earliest, most idealistic, and, later, most refined(...)
Tomorrow's Houses: New England Modernism
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Tomorrow’s Houses is a photographed presentation of the modernist houses in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, built during the early twentieth century through the 1960s. From the suburbs of Connecticut to the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, modernism in America found some of its earliest, most idealistic, and, later, most refined realizations in houses designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Meier, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, and Walter Gropius, all of whose work is featured in these pages. Photographer Geoffrey Gross has captured in full-color images these composed structures and their appointed interiors, all against the variety of the landscapes of New England.
Modernism
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The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College (BMC), which was founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools, after the Bauhaus, of the first half of the 20th century. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture and music were all taught here on an equal footing, and teachers and(...)
Black Mountain: an interdisciplinary (1933-1957)
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The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College (BMC), which was founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools, after the Bauhaus, of the first half of the 20th century. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture and music were all taught here on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. The first director of the school was Josef Albers, and icons such as John Cage, Walter Gropius and Buckminster Fuller were among the many luminaries invited to teach. In consequence, BMC witnessed the development of a cutting-edge range of avant-garde concepts and ideas that still influence the art world today.
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