$49.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
"L'idée de la grande ville : L'architecture moderne d'Europe centrale, 1890 - 1937" examine pour la première fois l'explosion d'idées neuves en architecture qui a marqué les dernières décennies de l'empire des Habsbourg et les premières années aventureuses des nouvelles républiques d'Europe centrale. Véritable champ de(...)
L'idée de la grande ville : l'architecture moderne d'Europe centrale, 1890-1937
Actions:
Prix:
$49.95
(disponible en magasin)
Résumé:
"L'idée de la grande ville : L'architecture moderne d'Europe centrale, 1890 - 1937" examine pour la première fois l'explosion d'idées neuves en architecture qui a marqué les dernières décennies de l'empire des Habsbourg et les premières années aventureuses des nouvelles républiques d'Europe centrale. Véritable champ de bataille culturel entre différentes traditions et aspirations nationales, religieuses, ethniques et linguistiques, la région n'en était pas moins le foyer d'un profond idéal cosmopolite. S'intéressant à la ville en tant que modèle de société et milieu favorable à l'épanouissement d'une vie culturelle intense, le livre permet de découvrir une histoire remarquable où se conjuguent invention, expérimentation, sophistication et imagination - l'histoire d'architectes qui ont voulu exprimer un sens nouveau de l'urbanité et de la modernité. Ce catalogue, sous la direction d’Eve Blau et de Monika Platzer, rassemble des essais des deux directrices, ainsi que de Charles S. Maier, Moritz Csáky, Renate Banik-Schweitzer, Friedrich Achleitner, Petr Krajci et Rostislav Òvácha, Iain Boyd Whyte, Aleksander Laslo, Ihor Zuk, Jacek Purchla, Ileana Pintilie, András Ferkai, Breda Mihelic et Andrew Herscher. L'avant-propos est de Phyllis Lambert et Kurt W. Forster du Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Deborah Marrow du Getty Research Institute de Los Angeles et Rudolf Wran du ministère autrichien de l'éducation et des Affaires culturelles.
Publications du CCA
Judging architectural value
$24.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and pay for the buildings? Art historians? Or architects themselves? These provocative essays take up the questions of what people value in architecture and how changing(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
avril 2007, Mineapolis London
Judging architectural value
Actions:
Prix:
$24.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and pay for the buildings? Art historians? Or architects themselves? These provocative essays take up the questions of what people value in architecture and how changing values influence opinions about it. In the intriguing opening essay, Michael Benedikt makes an argument for the role of architects in the delineation of value in architecture. He discusses the differences between icon and canon, a theme threaded through many of the essays. In addition to unexpected analyses of buildings such as Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture Building at Yale University, and the work of Antoni Gaudí and Frank Gehry, the collection includes a clear-eyed look at the role of architecture in addressing social problems. Ultimately, these essays assert that judging architecture requires more than a refined sensibility. Buildings also need to be evaluated by their impact on the people living within and around them. Contributors: John Beardsley, Harvard Design School; Michael Benedikt, U of Texas, Austin; Tim Culvahouse, California College of the Arts; Lisa Finley, California College of the Arts; Kurt W. Forster, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany; Kenneth Frampton, Columbia U; Diane Ghirardo, U of Southern California; Charles Jencks; David Leatherbarrow, U of Pennsylvania; Nancy Levinson; Hélène Lipstadt; Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki U of Technology; Timothy M. Rohan, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Roger Scruton; Daniel Willis, Pennsylvania State U. William S. Saunders is editor of Harvard Design Magazine and assistant dean for external relations at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is the author of Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller and editor of three other Harvard Design Magazine Readers. Michael Benedikt is Hal Box Chair in Urbanism and director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
Théorie de l’architecture