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The iconic twentieth-century architect Marcel Breuer was a prolific designer of residential architecture, which is often overshadowed by his early renown as a Bauhaus furniture maker and his large-scale projects. "Breuer’s bohemia" surveys the houses he designed in Connecticut and Massachusetts from the 1950s through the ’70s, many of which were commissioned by a few(...)
Breuer's bohemia: The architect, his circle, and midcentury houses in New England
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The iconic twentieth-century architect Marcel Breuer was a prolific designer of residential architecture, which is often overshadowed by his early renown as a Bauhaus furniture maker and his large-scale projects. "Breuer’s bohemia" surveys the houses he designed in Connecticut and Massachusetts from the 1950s through the ’70s, many of which were commissioned by a few culturally progressive clients—chiefly Rufus and Leslie Stillman and Andrew and Jamie Gagarin—who coalesced around him into a dynamic social circle. Included in this scene were prominent cultural figures such as Alexander Calder, Arthur Miller, Francine du Plessix Gray, Philip Roth, and William Styron, and more, marking a unique intersection of postwar architecture, art, and letters.
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In this story, we meet, among others, the Boston Brahmins Jack Phillips and Nathaniel Saltonstall; the self-taught architect, carpenter and painter Jack Hall; the Finn Olav Hammarström, who had worked for Alvar Aalto; and the prolific Charlie Zehnder, who brought the lessons of both Frank Lloyd Wright and Brutalism to the Cape. Initially, these designers had no clients;(...)
Cape Cod modern: midcentury architecture and community on the outer cape
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In this story, we meet, among others, the Boston Brahmins Jack Phillips and Nathaniel Saltonstall; the self-taught architect, carpenter and painter Jack Hall; the Finn Olav Hammarström, who had worked for Alvar Aalto; and the prolific Charlie Zehnder, who brought the lessons of both Frank Lloyd Wright and Brutalism to the Cape. Initially, these designers had no clients; they built for themselves and their families, or for friends sympathetic to their ideals. Their homes were laboratories, places to work through ideas without spending much money. The result of this ferment is a body of work unlike any other, a regional modernism fusing the building traditions of Cape Cod fishing towns with Bauhaus concepts and postwar experimentation.
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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(...)
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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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The art of building
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‘'Simplicity of life is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement?: a sanded floor and whitewashed walls, and the green trees?; or a grimy palace amid the smoke with a regiment of housemaids always working ; which, think you, is the most refined?’' William Morris (1834–1896) was a poet, designer and political activist. He campaigned against the human and(...)
The art of building
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‘'Simplicity of life is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement?: a sanded floor and whitewashed walls, and the green trees?; or a grimy palace amid the smoke with a regiment of housemaids always working ; which, think you, is the most refined?’' William Morris (1834–1896) was a poet, designer and political activist. He campaigned against the human and environmental costs of industrial mass production and viewed the arts as central to creating a better society. In these essays, Morris develops his philosophy of simplicity, equality and care for nature in relation to architecture, displaying the integrated vision of culture which has led to Morris being viewed as a forerunner to both the Bauhaus and today’s environmental movements.
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En 1972, Babette et Louis Sayer commandent à Marcel Breuer la réalisation de leur maison en Normandie, près de Deauville. Cette résidence secondaire restera la seule maison édifiée en France par l’architecte du Bauhaus, émigré aux États-Unis depuis les années 1930. Lovée dans la pente, sous un audacieux voile de béton blanc, cette réalisation constitue l’adaptation d’un(...)
La Villa Sayer : Marcel Breuer à Glanville
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En 1972, Babette et Louis Sayer commandent à Marcel Breuer la réalisation de leur maison en Normandie, près de Deauville. Cette résidence secondaire restera la seule maison édifiée en France par l’architecte du Bauhaus, émigré aux États-Unis depuis les années 1930. Lovée dans la pente, sous un audacieux voile de béton blanc, cette réalisation constitue l’adaptation d’un type américain pour une vie de famille française. Au-delà de cette résidence, il sera question de retracer la longue carrière de Marcel Breuer, surtout connu pour ses chaises en acier tubulaire, mais aussi auteur de dizaines de bâtiments publics aux États-Unis et en Europe, dont le siège de l’Unesco à Paris, la station de ski de Flaine, et d’autant de maisons remarquables.
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Consacrée en 1925 par la grande exposition des Arts Décoratifs à Paris, la tendance Art Déco trouve ses racines dans la simplification formelle qui se dessine dans les arts plastiques dès la fin des années 1910, au moment où s'amorce le déclin de l'Art Nouveau. De son côté, le Modernisme trouve les siennes dans le déploiement du fonctionnalisme et l'influence déterminante(...)
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Art deco & modernisme en Belgique
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Consacrée en 1925 par la grande exposition des Arts Décoratifs à Paris, la tendance Art Déco trouve ses racines dans la simplification formelle qui se dessine dans les arts plastiques dès la fin des années 1910, au moment où s'amorce le déclin de l'Art Nouveau. De son côté, le Modernisme trouve les siennes dans le déploiement du fonctionnalisme et l'influence déterminante de l'école du Bauhaus et de Le Corbusier. Relativement antagonistes à leur naissance, les deux tendances réalisent une synthèse vers 1930. Les oeuvres singulières d'Antoine Pompe, de Henry Van de Velde ou de Victor Horta (tous trois anciens de l'Art Nouveau) indiqueront des voies de recherche et de création particulièrement riches. Parallèlement, le mouvement des cités-jardins va induire une nouvelle façon de penser l'urbanisme.
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Published in this volume are the papers delivered at the conference, which focused on the themes of history, language, urbanism, and politics. The speakers included an exceptional array of historians and critics: Stan Allen of Princeton; Maurice Culot of the Institut Français d'Architecture, Paris; Kurt Forster of the Bauhaus University in Dessau; Phyllis Lambert of the(...)
Eisenman/Krier : two ideologies, a conference at the Yale school of architecture
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Published in this volume are the papers delivered at the conference, which focused on the themes of history, language, urbanism, and politics. The speakers included an exceptional array of historians and critics: Stan Allen of Princeton; Maurice Culot of the Institut Français d'Architecture, Paris; Kurt Forster of the Bauhaus University in Dessau; Phyllis Lambert of the Canadian Centre for Architecture; Joan Ockman and Mark Wigley of Columbia; Demetri Porphyrios and Vincent Scully of Yale; Robert Somol of the University of California, Los Angeles; Anthony Vidler of the Cooper Union; and Sarah Whiting of Harvard. Eisenman and Krier culminated the event with presentations that made evident their lifelong commitment to architectural language, to architectural scholarship, and to architecture itself as a vital element of society and culture.
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Victor Lundy (born 1923) is an important yet underappreciated figure in the history of American architecture. Trained in both the Beaux Arts and Bauhaus traditions, he built an impressive practice ranging from small-scale residential and commercial buildings to expressive religious buildings and two preeminent institutional works: the US Tax Court Building in Washington,(...)
Victor Lundy: Artist Architect
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Victor Lundy (born 1923) is an important yet underappreciated figure in the history of American architecture. Trained in both the Beaux Arts and Bauhaus traditions, he built an impressive practice ranging from small-scale residential and commercial buildings to expressive religious buildings and two preeminent institutional works: the US Tax Court Building in Washington, DC (now on the National Register of Historic Places), and the US Embassy in Sri Lanka. This first book on Lundy's life and career documents his early work in the Sarasota School of Architecture, his churches, and his government buildings. In addition to essays on his use of light and material, many of the architect's original drawings, paintings, and sketches are reproduced here for the first time.
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Avec Christopher Alexander, Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy, Terry M. Mikiten. "Le roi est nu": ce vieil adage est définitivement approprié au triste cas du déconstructivisme, car ce dernier n’est rien d’autre qu’un modernisme déguisé sous une autre forme. Les modernistes, notamment ceux du Bauhaus, voulaient la table rase ; se débarrasser de tout l’existant, tout en(...)
Anti-architecture et déconstruction
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Avec Christopher Alexander, Brian Hanson, Michael Mehaffy, Terry M. Mikiten. "Le roi est nu": ce vieil adage est définitivement approprié au triste cas du déconstructivisme, car ce dernier n’est rien d’autre qu’un modernisme déguisé sous une autre forme. Les modernistes, notamment ceux du Bauhaus, voulaient la table rase ; se débarrasser de tout l’existant, tout en revendiquant cependant certains liens avec le passé : le Parthénon (Jeanneret-Gris, alias Le Corbusier, etc.), le mouvement anglais Arts and Crafts (Pevsner, etc.) et le néoclassicisme prussien (Mies Van der Rohe), afin de donner une fausse parenté historique à leurs fins et à leurs créations. Aujourd’hui, ce sont les architectes déconstructivistes et leurs supporters qui se réclament de toutes sortes de liens et de précédents fumeux pour soutenir leurs travaux.
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Josef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and printmaker - are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship of these two masters in one elegant volume. It presents their life and work as never before, from their formative years(...)
Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and unequal
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Josef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and printmaker - are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship of these two masters in one elegant volume. It presents their life and work as never before, from their formative years at the Bauhaus in Germany to their remarkable influence at Black Mountain College in the United States through their intensely productive period in Connecticut. Dispersed throughout area series of short essays on artists that focuses on the Alberses relationship with a number of important artists and architects of the 20th century, like Ruth Asawa, Marcel Breuer, Merce Cunningham, Philip Johnson, Paul Klee, Jacob Lawrence, and many more.
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