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Fire Island Modernist

Author : Christopher Bascom Rawlins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938922091
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Fire Island Modernist written by Christopher Bascom Rawlins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York's Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Pairing this sensitivity with jazzy improvisations on modernist themes, he perfected a sustainable modernism in cedar and glass that was as attuned to natural landscapes as to our animal natures. Gifford's serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Celebrities lived in modestly scaled homes alongside middle-class vacationers, all with equal access to Fire Island's natural beauty. Blending cultural and architectural history, this book ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life, work and colorful milieu trace the operatic arc of a lost generation, and still resonate with artistic and historical import.

Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA

Author : Sam Lubell
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714871950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (719 download)

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Book Synopsis Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA by : Sam Lubell

Download or read book Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA written by Sam Lubell and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have guide to one of the most fertile regions for the development of Mid-Century Modern architecture This handbook - the first ever to focus on the architectural wonders of the West Coast of the USA - provides visitors with an expertly curated list of 250 must-see destinations. Discover the most celebrated Modernist buildings, as well as hidden gems and virtually unknown examples - from the iconic Case Study houses to the glamour of Palm Springs' spectacular Modern desert structures. Much more than a travel guide, this book is a compelling record of one of the USA's most important architectural movements at a time when Mid-Century style has never been more popular. First-hand descriptions and colour photography transport readers into an era of unparalleled style, glamour, and optimism.

Beach Houses

Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 1568983212
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Beach Houses written by Alastair Gordon and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For clients in the Hamptons, the Jersey shore, and in New England, Andrew Geller built dozens of houses, most of wood, and most on modest budgets. These spirited houses, many shown here for the first time through vintage photos and drawings, still delight today and will inspire anyone interested in beach house living. 85 photos, 25 in color.

The Architecture of David Lynch

Author : Richard Martin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472520238
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of David Lynch written by Richard Martin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Red Room in Twin Peaks to Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the work of David Lynch contains some of the most remarkable spaces in contemporary culture. Richard Martin's compelling study is the first sustained critical assessment of the role architecture and design play in Lynch's films. Martin combines original research at Lynchian locations in Los Angeles, London and Lódz with insights from architects including Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Jean Nouvel and urban theorists such as Jane Jacobs and Edward Soja. In analyzing the towns, cities, homes, roads and stages found in Lynch's work, Martin not only reveals their central importance for understanding this controversial and distinctive film-maker, but also suggests how Lynch's films can provide a deeper understanding of the places and spaces in which we live.

Long Island Modernism 1930 To 1980

Author : Caroline Rob Zaleski
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393733157
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Long Island Modernism 1930 To 1980 written by Caroline Rob Zaleski and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles a rich and little-known array of architecture on the island, a hotbed of modernism from the thirties on. An essential reference for architecture buffs, historians, and everyone who lives on or visits Long Island today, this unique resource—the first illustrated history of Long Island’s modern architecture—is based on a survey conducted for the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA). It highlights the work within Suffolk and Nassau counties of a roster of twenty-five internationally renowned architects—among them Wallace Harrison, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Edward Durell Stone, Richard Neutra, William Lescaze, Gordon Chadwick for George Nelson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, and Richard Meier. Caroline Rob Zaleski’s research on the work of key figures in twentieth-century architecture; the relatively unknown aspects of their production; and their associations with clients, artists, and politicians is complemented by more than three hundred striking archival photographs, specially commissioned new photography, and plans. Zaleski documents the development of exurbia and the rise of visionary structures: residences for commuters and weekenders, public housing, houses of worship, universities, shopping centers, and office complexes. In this part architectural, part social history, she explains why modernism was embraced by Long Island’s civic, cultural, and business leaders—as well as by those who wanted to settle away from the city—during an epoch when open space was prime for development. An inventory of important architects, with their Long Island commissions by date and location, complements the main text.

Cape Cod Modern

Author : Peter McMahon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935202165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Cape Cod Modern written by Peter McMahon and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now. The area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country's top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in the woods and on the dunes; by the 1970s, there were about 100 modern houses of interest here.

Weekend Utopia

Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 1568982720
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Weekend Utopia written by Alastair Gordon and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hamptons are hot. Gordon, who grew up there, traces the invention of the idea of the Hamptons as a resort for the elite of New York City and shows how various forces, including artists, real estate developers, and media professionals transformed what had been a quiet rural place into a modern and worldwide phenomenon. 175 illustrations.

Constellation of Genius

Author : Kevin Jackson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710333
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Constellation of Genius written by Kevin Jackson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, two works that were arguably "the sun and moon" of modernist literature, some would say of modernity itself. In Constellation of Genius, Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, "On all sides, and in every field, there was a frenzy of innovation." It is in 1922 that Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus; the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts, Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the sky was "blazing with a ‘constellation of genius' of a kind that had never been known before, and has never since been rivaled." Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works—over the course of twelve months—brought a seismic shift in the way we think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide.

Francisco Kripacz

Author : Arthur Erickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927958506
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Francisco Kripacz written by Arthur Erickson and published by . This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Erickson was one of the 20th century's premier architects, but little has been written about the man who designed the interiors of Erickson's award-winning buildings, whom everyone in the business simply called "Francisco". A decade before his death, Erickson wrote this manuscript to pay tribute to Kripacz and to tell the world of the importance of Francisco's creations. With stunning images from some of greatest photographers of the day, such as Yousuf Karsh, this book looks at Erickson's key projects and the crucial contributions made by Kripacz to their feel and glamour. It includes Erickson's extended commentary on some of his most famous architectural projects from the 1970's through the 1990s, including Roy Thomson Hall, the Eppich Houses, Napp Laboratories, and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., all of which had stunning interior designs and furniture by Kripacz. As this book goes to press, the Erickson and Kripacz-designed furniture line, the Erickson Design Collection, is being brought into manufacture, with many items becoming available for the first time. Francisco Kripacz: Interior Design is a beautiful legacy to the working partnership of a charismatic and passionate artistic duo -- a last testament from a remarkable architect to the man who shared in his greatest achievements.

The Modernist House

Author : Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714849683
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Modernist House written by Editors of Phaidon Press and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2009-05-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and affordable overview of 100 iconic Modernist houses from around the world, ranging from the early twentieth century to the present day

Speculative Modernism

Author : William Gillard
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644950
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Speculative Modernism written by William Gillard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative modernists--that is, British and American writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--successfully grappled with the same forces that would drive their better-known literary counterparts to existential despair. Building on the ideas of the 19th-century Gothic and utopian movements, these speculative writers anticipated literary Modernism and blazed alternative literary trails in science, religion, ecology and sociology. Such authors as H.G. Wells and H.P. Lovecraft gained widespread recognition--budding from them, other speculative authors published fascinating tales of individuals trapped in dystopias, of anti-society attitudes, post-apocalyptic worlds and the rapidly expanding knowledge of the limitless universe. This book documents the Gothic and utopian roots of speculative fiction and explores how these authors played a crucial role in shaping the culture of the new century with their darker, more evolved themes.

Romantic Modernist

Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Modernist written by Alastair Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free-spirited American architect Norman Jaffe (1932-1993) was best known for the strikingly sculptural houses he designed in the Hamptons. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, this volume offers a lavishly illustrated overview of his life and work. Essays by architectural critic and jou

Modernism at Mid-Century

Author : Robert Bruegmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226076946
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Modernism at Mid-Century written by Robert Bruegmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the country's largest and most important postwar architectural projects, the United States Air Force Academy opened in 1958. With its spectacular natural setting and stunning Modernist design, the Academy was quickly hailed as a national landmark and attracts over a million visitors each year. The contributors to this volume (Jory Johnson, Robert Nauman, Sheri Olson, James Russell, and Kristen Schaffer) and editor Robert Bruegmann chronicle the complex history of the planning, design, and construction of the Air Force Academy. As the most conspicuous commission of the American military at the height of the Cold War, the design of the Academy generated intense popular interest and was a lightning rod for conflicting values in postwar society. The design, by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has been hailed as the final triumph of the International Style and as a monument to military bureaucracy.

The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings

Author : Marc Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476784930
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings written by Marc Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of Architizer.com and practicing architect draws on his unique position at the crossroads of architecture and social media to highlight 100 important buildings that embody the future of architecture. We’re asking more of architecture than ever before; the response will define our future. A pavilion made from paper. A building that eats smog. An inflatable concert hall. A research lab that can walk through snow. We’re entering a new age in architecture—one where we expect our buildings to deliver far more than just shelter. We want buildings that inspire us while helping the environment; buildings that delight our senses while serving the needs of a community; buildings made possible both by new technology and repurposed materials. Like an architectural cabinet of wonders, this book collects the most innovative buildings of today and tomorrow. The buildings hail from all seven continents (to say nothing of other planets), offering a truly global perspective on what lies ahead. Each page captures the soaring confidence, the thoughtful intelligence, the space-age wonder, and at times the sheer whimsy of the world’s most inspired buildings—and the questions they provoke: Can a building breathe? Can a skyscraper be built in a day? Can we 3D-print a house? Can we live on the moon? Filled with gorgeous imagery and witty insight, this book is an essential and delightful guide to the future being built around us—a future that matters more, and to more of us, than ever.

A Guide to Postmodern Architecture in London

Author : Pablo Bronstein
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783865601735
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Postmodern Architecture in London written by Pablo Bronstein and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Line drawings of postmodern buildings built in London 1970s to 1990s. A short descriptive text accompanies each illustration. Includes photographs of postmodern details.

Pools

Author : Hughes Condon Marler Architects
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781935935957
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Pools written by Hughes Condon Marler Architects and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having completed more than twelve public Aquatics Centers across Canada in the past decade, Hughes Condon Marler Architects has developed significant architectural expertise in the design of pools without having ever defaulted to a repetitive aesthetic. "Pools: Aquatic Architecture" traces the evolution of those ideas, beginning at Eileen Dailly Leisure Pool, all the way through to current projects being developed in Surrey, British Columbia. Through orthographic drawings, diagrams, professional photography and editorial text, the strategies employed in each project are clearly illustrated. Editorial direction by Trevor Boddy examines seven completed Aquatics Centres and delves into the design process of one building that is currently under development, in order to bring to light the origin and evolution of ideas that have become HCMA's architectural ethos.

Seeing Like a State

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252986
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Like a State written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University