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Explore New York City’s rich legacy of modernist architecture with this beautifully designed, two-sided map guide by Allison C. Meier, featuring original photography by Jason Woods. Showcasing iconic buildings by visionaries such as Philip Johnson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and I.M. Pei, the guide details buildings, architects, years(...)
Modernist New York Map: Guide to 20th century modern architecture in New York City
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Explore New York City’s rich legacy of modernist architecture with this beautifully designed, two-sided map guide by Allison C. Meier, featuring original photography by Jason Woods. Showcasing iconic buildings by visionaries such as Philip Johnson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and I.M. Pei, the guide details buildings, architects, years built and addresses. Discover works by pioneers like Louis Kahn, Marcel Breuer, Vertner Woodson Tandy and more. With an engaging introduction to 20th-century architecture in NYC, this guide is an essential companion for design enthusiasts, architects and urban explorers alike.
Architectural Plans and Cartography
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What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions better than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging(...)
Talking architecture: interviews with architects
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What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions better than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging assortment of perspectives on contemporary architecture and the architects' roles in shaping the state of the art today. Each interview focuses on the unique contributions of its subject, and is accompanied by images of their most important works.
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October 2008
Architectural Theory
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The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings—Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am—but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was at the center of European modernism and avant-garde society(...)
Gropius: the man who built the Bauhaus
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The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings—Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am—but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was at the center of European modernism and avant-garde society glamor, only to be exiled to the antimodernist United Kingdom during the Nazi years. Later, under the democratizing influence of American universities, Gropius became an advocate of public art and cemented a starring role in twentieth-century architecture and design.
Architecture Monographs
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Ce catalogue documente le projet conçu par Claudia Comte pour l'édition 2016 du Printemps de septembre à partir d'une sélection de 600 pièces primaires issues de l'industrie aéronautique. Dans l'ancienne usine hydro-électrique du Bazacle, Claudia Comte a dessiné et produit une mise en scène immersive pour ces objets, temporairement solidaires d'un même effet d'ensemble.(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
June 2019
Claudia Comte : the curves, the corners, and the machines
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Ce catalogue documente le projet conçu par Claudia Comte pour l'édition 2016 du Printemps de septembre à partir d'une sélection de 600 pièces primaires issues de l'industrie aéronautique. Dans l'ancienne usine hydro-électrique du Bazacle, Claudia Comte a dessiné et produit une mise en scène immersive pour ces objets, temporairement solidaires d'un même effet d'ensemble. Le texte de Thierry Leviez replace son intervention dans la perspective d'une généalogie, évoquant successivement sept expositions d'objets, des salons conçus par Lily Reich pour le Werkbund aux innovations de Philip Johnson au MoMA et jusqu'aux expérimentations de Richard Hamilton à l'ICA.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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399 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
New York : Vendome Press, [2014], ©2014
New York mid-century 1945-1965 : art, architecture, design, dance, theater, nightlife / Annie Cohen-Solal, Paul Goldberger, Robert Gottlieb.
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New York : Vendome Press, [2014], ©2014
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Popularly known as the location of the Glass House by Philip Johnson, New Canaan, Connecticut, is home to a number of other striking modernist residences designed by Harvard graduates of his generation. After nearly 40 years, the homes conceived by Marcel Breuer, Alan Goldberg, Eliot Noyes, Landis Gores, John Johansen, John Black Lee, Hugh Smallen, Edward Durell Stone,(...)
a+u 584 19:05 Mid-Century Modern Houses In New Canaan
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Popularly known as the location of the Glass House by Philip Johnson, New Canaan, Connecticut, is home to a number of other striking modernist residences designed by Harvard graduates of his generation. After nearly 40 years, the homes conceived by Marcel Breuer, Alan Goldberg, Eliot Noyes, Landis Gores, John Johansen, John Black Lee, Hugh Smallen, Edward Durell Stone, and Frank Lloyd Wright still continue to fascinate. Guest edited by Alan Goldberg and with new photographs by Michael Biondo, this issue examines the thought processes behind the designs of the houses of that seminal era through a large collection of valuable original drawings and documents.
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Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects—from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style—she analyzes the complex(...)
Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America
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Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects—from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style—she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural product. She investigates the symbolic awards and recognition accorded by prestigious journals and panels, exposing the inner workings of a profession in a precarious social position. Larson captures the struggles around status, place, and power as architects seek to redefine their very purpose in contemporary America.
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Glass House
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The Glass House, designed by celebrated architect Philip Johnson as a personal retreat, is an icon of modern architecture. A crystalline box set in a serene New England landscape, the house is now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which will open it to visitors in April 2007. Johnson used his property near New Canaan, Connecticut, as an(...)
Glass House
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The Glass House, designed by celebrated architect Philip Johnson as a personal retreat, is an icon of modern architecture. A crystalline box set in a serene New England landscape, the house is now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which will open it to visitors in April 2007. Johnson used his property near New Canaan, Connecticut, as an architectural laboratory, adding nine additional structures over a forty-year period. Among them are the Ghost House, a chain-link tribute to Frank Gehry, and the witty, bright red Gate House. Glass House is a unique presentation of the Glass House complex in words and photographs. Compiled by eminent critic Toshio Nakamura under the sponsorship of YKK AP Inc., the volume features a specially commissioned suite of photographs, taken throughout the four seasons, by renowned architectural photographer Michael Moran, including cross-processed images and images taken with infrared film. The deluxe graphic presentation, with distinctive paper stocks and foldout pages reproducing Johnson's original drawings, was conceived by designer Michael Rock of 2x4.
Architecture Monographs
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The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the world’s most highly regarded architecture award. It is presented annually to a living architect who has “produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” This splendid book celebrates the 20th anniversary of the prize, which(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
March 1999, New York
The Pritzker architecture prize : the first twenty years
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The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the world’s most highly regarded architecture award. It is presented annually to a living architect who has “produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” This splendid book celebrates the 20th anniversary of the prize, which has been awarded to such outstanding international figures as Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, I. M. Pei, James Stirling, Robert Venturi, and most recently Renzo Piano. This volume features texts by Pritzker jury members and discussions of the prize and the laureates’ work by Colin Amery and William J. R. Curtis. Selected buildings and projects by each of the 21 winners are illustrated.
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March 1999, New York
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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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.
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