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Le présent ouvrage, qui a pour objet central l’étude du Plan général de reconstruction de Moscou de 1935, propose de nuancer l’histoire urbaine soviétique écrite à travers l’unique prisme de la verticalité du pouvoir. Il met en évidence les nombreuses permanences, matérielles, idéelles et humaines, ainsi que les approches pragmatiques du projet de la part des décideurs,(...)
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Le présent ouvrage, qui a pour objet central l’étude du Plan général de reconstruction de Moscou de 1935, propose de nuancer l’histoire urbaine soviétique écrite à travers l’unique prisme de la verticalité du pouvoir. Il met en évidence les nombreuses permanences, matérielles, idéelles et humaines, ainsi que les approches pragmatiques du projet de la part des décideurs,(...)
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Le prolétariat ne se promène pas nu
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Le présent ouvrage, qui a pour objet central l’étude du Plan général de reconstruction de Moscou de 1935, propose de nuancer l’histoire urbaine soviétique écrite à travers l’unique prisme de la verticalité du pouvoir. Il met en évidence les nombreuses permanences, matérielles, idéelles et humaines, ainsi que les approches pragmatiques du projet de la part des décideurs, en premier lieu Staline et Kaganovitch. Servie par une riche iconographie, cette analyse, au-delà du cas moscovite, met en lumière comment les architectes et les urbanistes se positionnent, créent et innovent, dans et malgré un contexte de contrôle absolu.
Le prolétariat ne se promène pas nu
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Le présent ouvrage, qui a pour objet central l’étude du Plan général de reconstruction de Moscou de 1935, propose de nuancer l’histoire urbaine soviétique écrite à travers l’unique prisme de la verticalité du pouvoir. Il met en évidence les nombreuses permanences, matérielles, idéelles et humaines, ainsi que les approches pragmatiques du projet de la part des décideurs, en premier lieu Staline et Kaganovitch. Servie par une riche iconographie, cette analyse, au-delà du cas moscovite, met en lumière comment les architectes et les urbanistes se positionnent, créent et innovent, dans et malgré un contexte de contrôle absolu.
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avril 2022
avril 2022
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Modernisme
Modernisme
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Le siège de l'Unesco
Le siège de l'Unesco
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Fruit du travail commun de trois architectes - le Français Bernard Zehrfuss, l'Américain d'origine hongroise Marcel Breuer et l'Italien Pier Luigi Nervi - le siège de l'Unesco est inauguré à Paris, le 3 novembre 1958 à la suite d'une consultation qui rassembla les plus grands noms de l'architecture mondiale. Leur réalisation est l'une des plus belles prouesses de l'usage(...)
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Fruit du travail commun de trois architectes - le Français Bernard Zehrfuss, l'Américain d'origine hongroise Marcel Breuer et l'Italien Pier Luigi Nervi - le siège de l'Unesco est inauguré à Paris, le 3 novembre 1958 à la suite d'une consultation qui rassembla les plus grands noms de l'architecture mondiale. Leur réalisation est l'une des plus belles prouesses de l'usage(...)
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Le siège de l'Unesco
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Fruit du travail commun de trois architectes - le Français Bernard Zehrfuss, l'Américain d'origine hongroise Marcel Breuer et l'Italien Pier Luigi Nervi - le siège de l'Unesco est inauguré à Paris, le 3 novembre 1958 à la suite d'une consultation qui rassembla les plus grands noms de l'architecture mondiale. Leur réalisation est l'une des plus belles prouesses de l'usage du béton armé. Au bâtiment principal - la célèbre " étoile à trois branches " - s'ajouteront par la suite trois autres édifices. A l'ombre des bâtiments, Isamu Noguchi réalise son fameux jardin japonais, ou " Jardin de la Paix ". Pendant le chantier, un " comité pour l'architecture et les oeuvres d'art " est mis en place pour sélectionner des artistes chargés d'exécuter une ouvre monumentale pour un emplacement précis : on compte ainsi des sculptures d'Henry Moore, d'Alexander Calder et d'Eduardo Chillida à l'extérieur, et à l'intérieur une céramique de Joan Miró ainsi qu'une fresque monumentale de Picasso. En plus de ce noyau initial, l'Unesco a acquis au fil des ans d'autres ouvres et cette " maison de l'Unesco ", symbole de paix universelle et de diversité culturelle, compte aujourd'hui plus de 700 oeuvres d'art.
Le siège de l'Unesco
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Fruit du travail commun de trois architectes - le Français Bernard Zehrfuss, l'Américain d'origine hongroise Marcel Breuer et l'Italien Pier Luigi Nervi - le siège de l'Unesco est inauguré à Paris, le 3 novembre 1958 à la suite d'une consultation qui rassembla les plus grands noms de l'architecture mondiale. Leur réalisation est l'une des plus belles prouesses de l'usage du béton armé. Au bâtiment principal - la célèbre " étoile à trois branches " - s'ajouteront par la suite trois autres édifices. A l'ombre des bâtiments, Isamu Noguchi réalise son fameux jardin japonais, ou " Jardin de la Paix ". Pendant le chantier, un " comité pour l'architecture et les oeuvres d'art " est mis en place pour sélectionner des artistes chargés d'exécuter une ouvre monumentale pour un emplacement précis : on compte ainsi des sculptures d'Henry Moore, d'Alexander Calder et d'Eduardo Chillida à l'extérieur, et à l'intérieur une céramique de Joan Miró ainsi qu'une fresque monumentale de Picasso. En plus de ce noyau initial, l'Unesco a acquis au fil des ans d'autres ouvres et cette " maison de l'Unesco ", symbole de paix universelle et de diversité culturelle, compte aujourd'hui plus de 700 oeuvres d'art.
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août 2017
août 2017
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Modernisme
Modernisme
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"L'Ornement est un crime" rend hommage de manière originale au mouvement moderne, l'une des périodes les plus inventives et radicales de l'histoire de l'architecture. Des chefs-d'oeuvre des premiers architectes du mouvement moderne tels Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius ou Mies van der Rohe et de nombreux trésors méconnus côtoient ainsi les créations de grands(...)
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"L'Ornement est un crime" rend hommage de manière originale au mouvement moderne, l'une des périodes les plus inventives et radicales de l'histoire de l'architecture. Des chefs-d'oeuvre des premiers architectes du mouvement moderne tels Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius ou Mies van der Rohe et de nombreux trésors méconnus côtoient ainsi les créations de grands(...)
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L'ornement est un crime : architecture du mouvement moderne
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"L'Ornement est un crime" rend hommage de manière originale au mouvement moderne, l'une des périodes les plus inventives et radicales de l'histoire de l'architecture. Des chefs-d'oeuvre des premiers architectes du mouvement moderne tels Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius ou Mies van der Rohe et de nombreux trésors méconnus côtoient ainsi les créations de grands architectes contemporains dont l'oeuvre s'inscrit dans la même lignée, tels David Adjaye, Tadao Ando ou Steven Holl. "L'Ornement est un crime" offre un tour du monde de ce style d'architecture, réunissant des maisons conçues aussi bien aux Etats-Unis et en Europe (notamment en République tchèque, en Irlande, en Pologne, au Portugal, en Slovaquie, en Grèce) qu'en Argentine, au Chili, au Pérou, en Australie, au Canada, au Ghana ou en Israël.
L'ornement est un crime : architecture du mouvement moderne
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"L'Ornement est un crime" rend hommage de manière originale au mouvement moderne, l'une des périodes les plus inventives et radicales de l'histoire de l'architecture. Des chefs-d'oeuvre des premiers architectes du mouvement moderne tels Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius ou Mies van der Rohe et de nombreux trésors méconnus côtoient ainsi les créations de grands architectes contemporains dont l'oeuvre s'inscrit dans la même lignée, tels David Adjaye, Tadao Ando ou Steven Holl. "L'Ornement est un crime" offre un tour du monde de ce style d'architecture, réunissant des maisons conçues aussi bien aux Etats-Unis et en Europe (notamment en République tchèque, en Irlande, en Pologne, au Portugal, en Slovaquie, en Grèce) qu'en Argentine, au Chili, au Pérou, en Australie, au Canada, au Ghana ou en Israël.
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septembre 2017
septembre 2017
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After World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and ‘20s. As 'Modernism as Memory' illustrates, these postwar practices undergird the approaches(...)
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After World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and ‘20s. As 'Modernism as Memory' illustrates, these postwar practices undergird the approaches(...)
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Modernism as memory: building identity in the Federal Republic of Germany
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After World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and ‘20s. As 'Modernism as Memory' illustrates, these postwar practices undergird the approaches later taken in influential structures created or renovated in Berlin following the fall of the Wall, including the Jewish Museum and the Reichstag, the New Museum and the Topography of Terror.
Modernism as memory: building identity in the Federal Republic of Germany
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After World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and ‘20s. As 'Modernism as Memory' illustrates, these postwar practices undergird the approaches later taken in influential structures created or renovated in Berlin following the fall of the Wall, including the Jewish Museum and the Reichstag, the New Museum and the Topography of Terror.
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janvier 2018
janvier 2018
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Modernisme
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Building for oneself has a special connotation under the conditions of migration and exile. Among the most prominent examples are the private homes of Rudolph Schindler in West Hollywood, Richard Neutra in Los Angeles, Walter Gropius in Lincoln, Massachusetts. What expression could voluntary migration or forced change of location find in these buildings? To what extent(...)
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Building for oneself has a special connotation under the conditions of migration and exile. Among the most prominent examples are the private homes of Rudolph Schindler in West Hollywood, Richard Neutra in Los Angeles, Walter Gropius in Lincoln, Massachusetts. What expression could voluntary migration or forced change of location find in these buildings? To what extent(...)
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A home of one's own: Émigré architects and their houses 1920-1960
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Building for oneself has a special connotation under the conditions of migration and exile. Among the most prominent examples are the private homes of Rudolph Schindler in West Hollywood, Richard Neutra in Los Angeles, Walter Gropius in Lincoln, Massachusetts. What expression could voluntary migration or forced change of location find in these buildings? To what extent do the architects’ other buildings differ from such 'homes of one’s own' in a foreign country, to use an expression borrowed and modified from Virginia Woolf?
A home of one's own: Émigré architects and their houses 1920-1960
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Building for oneself has a special connotation under the conditions of migration and exile. Among the most prominent examples are the private homes of Rudolph Schindler in West Hollywood, Richard Neutra in Los Angeles, Walter Gropius in Lincoln, Massachusetts. What expression could voluntary migration or forced change of location find in these buildings? To what extent do the architects’ other buildings differ from such 'homes of one’s own' in a foreign country, to use an expression borrowed and modified from Virginia Woolf?
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juin 2018
juin 2018
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The spirit of the Bauhaus
The spirit of the Bauhaus
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“Architects, sculptors, painters, we all must return to the crafts!” declared architect Walter Gropius in his Bauhaus manifesto. Founded in 1919 as an art school in Weimar, the Bauhaus established itself as a major influence on twentieth- century art and design. Bauhaus students were taught by some of the most celebrated artists of the time, including Paul Klee, Lyonel(...)
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“Architects, sculptors, painters, we all must return to the crafts!” declared architect Walter Gropius in his Bauhaus manifesto. Founded in 1919 as an art school in Weimar, the Bauhaus established itself as a major influence on twentieth- century art and design. Bauhaus students were taught by some of the most celebrated artists of the time, including Paul Klee, Lyonel(...)
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The spirit of the Bauhaus
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“Architects, sculptors, painters, we all must return to the crafts!” declared architect Walter Gropius in his Bauhaus manifesto. Founded in 1919 as an art school in Weimar, the Bauhaus established itself as a major influence on twentieth- century art and design. Bauhaus students were taught by some of the most celebrated artists of the time, including Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Wassily Kandinsky. Having moved to Berlin in 1932 under architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, it was forced to close for good by the Gestapo in 1933. Uncovering the sources of inspiration that brought the Bauhaus into existence, from medieval cathedrals of Europe and Hokusai prints to William Morris and Arts and Crafts, The Spirit of the Bauhaus explores workshops and courses in detail, illustrating the extraordinary wealth of experimentation in every medium: ceramics, wood and metalwork, textiles, glass- painting, sculpture, mural, printing and binding, theater, architecture, and photography. This essential and accessible guide to the Bauhaus, published in time for the 100th anniversary of the school in 2019, celebrates a school that continues to be recognized as the most durable and influential source of modern ideas about art, design, and craft.
The spirit of the Bauhaus
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“Architects, sculptors, painters, we all must return to the crafts!” declared architect Walter Gropius in his Bauhaus manifesto. Founded in 1919 as an art school in Weimar, the Bauhaus established itself as a major influence on twentieth- century art and design. Bauhaus students were taught by some of the most celebrated artists of the time, including Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Wassily Kandinsky. Having moved to Berlin in 1932 under architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, it was forced to close for good by the Gestapo in 1933. Uncovering the sources of inspiration that brought the Bauhaus into existence, from medieval cathedrals of Europe and Hokusai prints to William Morris and Arts and Crafts, The Spirit of the Bauhaus explores workshops and courses in detail, illustrating the extraordinary wealth of experimentation in every medium: ceramics, wood and metalwork, textiles, glass- painting, sculpture, mural, printing and binding, theater, architecture, and photography. This essential and accessible guide to the Bauhaus, published in time for the 100th anniversary of the school in 2019, celebrates a school that continues to be recognized as the most durable and influential source of modern ideas about art, design, and craft.
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mai 2018
mai 2018
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"Hudson Modern" surveys this emerging domestic architecture, featuring nearly twenty houses that integrate with site and region through composition, scale, and materials, and which strike a balance between innovation and rootedness. A reconstructed midcentury house accented in cedar, walnut, and bluestone by Joel Sanders and landscaped by the late Diana Balmori blurs the(...)
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"Hudson Modern" surveys this emerging domestic architecture, featuring nearly twenty houses that integrate with site and region through composition, scale, and materials, and which strike a balance between innovation and rootedness. A reconstructed midcentury house accented in cedar, walnut, and bluestone by Joel Sanders and landscaped by the late Diana Balmori blurs the(...)
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Hudson modern: residential landscapes
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"Hudson Modern" surveys this emerging domestic architecture, featuring nearly twenty houses that integrate with site and region through composition, scale, and materials, and which strike a balance between innovation and rootedness. A reconstructed midcentury house accented in cedar, walnut, and bluestone by Joel Sanders and landscaped by the late Diana Balmori blurs the edge of habitation and nature. KieranTimberlake revises the classic vision of a glass box by cladding a home on a rocky site in Pound Ridge in a tapestry of steel, aluminum, copper, and glass. In Rhinebeck, Steven Holl experiments with a radical form that has both ecological and social dimensions.
Hudson modern: residential landscapes
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"Hudson Modern" surveys this emerging domestic architecture, featuring nearly twenty houses that integrate with site and region through composition, scale, and materials, and which strike a balance between innovation and rootedness. A reconstructed midcentury house accented in cedar, walnut, and bluestone by Joel Sanders and landscaped by the late Diana Balmori blurs the edge of habitation and nature. KieranTimberlake revises the classic vision of a glass box by cladding a home on a rocky site in Pound Ridge in a tapestry of steel, aluminum, copper, and glass. In Rhinebeck, Steven Holl experiments with a radical form that has both ecological and social dimensions.
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juin 2018
juin 2018
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Bauhaus World Heritage Site
Bauhaus World Heritage Site
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Between 1919 and 1933, the Bauhaus revolutionized prevailing ideas about architecture and design, and the construction methods associated with them. The architecture of the Bauhaus itself was equally innovative; the buildings conceived by Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer had a lasting influence on the architecture of the 20th century. To celebrate and preserve this legacy,(...)
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Between 1919 and 1933, the Bauhaus revolutionized prevailing ideas about architecture and design, and the construction methods associated with them. The architecture of the Bauhaus itself was equally innovative; the buildings conceived by Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer had a lasting influence on the architecture of the 20th century. To celebrate and preserve this legacy,(...)
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Between 1919 and 1933, the Bauhaus revolutionized prevailing ideas about architecture and design, and the construction methods associated with them. The architecture of the Bauhaus itself was equally innovative; the buildings conceived by Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer had a lasting influence on the architecture of the 20th century. To celebrate and preserve this legacy, the Bauhaus buildings in Weimar and Dessau were named UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1996. More recently, UNESCO added several other Bauhaus buildings to the list, including the houses with balcony access in Dessau, the ADGB Trades Union School in Bernau, the Haus am Horn and the old Art School and the old School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar. Bauhaus World Heritage Site documents the Bauhaus buildings protected by UNESCO, exploring the architectural legacy of the Bauhaus through a close look at the school’s own architecture.
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Between 1919 and 1933, the Bauhaus revolutionized prevailing ideas about architecture and design, and the construction methods associated with them. The architecture of the Bauhaus itself was equally innovative; the buildings conceived by Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer had a lasting influence on the architecture of the 20th century. To celebrate and preserve this legacy, the Bauhaus buildings in Weimar and Dessau were named UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1996. More recently, UNESCO added several other Bauhaus buildings to the list, including the houses with balcony access in Dessau, the ADGB Trades Union School in Bernau, the Haus am Horn and the old Art School and the old School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar. Bauhaus World Heritage Site documents the Bauhaus buildings protected by UNESCO, exploring the architectural legacy of the Bauhaus through a close look at the school’s own architecture.
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juin 2018
juin 2018
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Modernisme
Modernisme
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The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. "Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man" explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that(...)
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The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. "Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man" explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that(...)
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Modernism and the making of the Soviet new man
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The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. "Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man" explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that most clearly articulated the dynamic of the socialist project as a negotiation between utopia and reality, the will for progress and the will for tyranny. It was a comprehensive effort that brought together professional architects and statisticians, theatre directors, managers, housewives, pilots, construction workers. What they had in common was the enthusiasm for defining the "new man", the ideal citizen of the radiant future, and the settings in which he or she lives.
Modernism and the making of the Soviet new man
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The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. "Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man" explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that most clearly articulated the dynamic of the socialist project as a negotiation between utopia and reality, the will for progress and the will for tyranny. It was a comprehensive effort that brought together professional architects and statisticians, theatre directors, managers, housewives, pilots, construction workers. What they had in common was the enthusiasm for defining the "new man", the ideal citizen of the radiant future, and the settings in which he or she lives.
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mars 2019
mars 2019
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Modernisme
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"Luxury and Modernism" shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs—from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects—and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and modes of living. While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of(...)
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"Luxury and Modernism" shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs—from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects—and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and modes of living. While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of(...)
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Luxury and modernism: Architecture and the object in Germany 1900-1933
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"Luxury and Modernism" shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs—from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects—and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and modes of living. While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served. Schuldenfrei exposes the disconnect between modernism's utopian discourse and its luxury objects and elite architectural commissions. Despite the movement's egalitarian rhetoric, many modern designs addressed the desires of the privileged individual. Yet as Schuldenfrei demonstrates, luxury was integral not only to how modern buildings and objects were designed, manufactured, and sold, but has contributed to modernism's appeal to this day.
Luxury and modernism: Architecture and the object in Germany 1900-1933
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"Luxury and Modernism" shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs—from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects—and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and modes of living. While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served. Schuldenfrei exposes the disconnect between modernism's utopian discourse and its luxury objects and elite architectural commissions. Despite the movement's egalitarian rhetoric, many modern designs addressed the desires of the privileged individual. Yet as Schuldenfrei demonstrates, luxury was integral not only to how modern buildings and objects were designed, manufactured, and sold, but has contributed to modernism's appeal to this day.
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juin 2018
juin 2018
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Modernisme
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