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Download or read book Hommage a Giedion written by Giedion and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 1971 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Architecture's Historical Turn by : Jorge Otero-Pailos
Download or read book Architecture's Historical Turn written by Jorge Otero-Pailos and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture’s Historical Turn traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first dared to confront history as an intellectual problem and not merely as a stylistic question. Jorge Otero-Pailos shows how architectural phenomenology radically transformed how architects engaged, theorized, and produced history. In the first critical intellectual account of the movement, Otero-Pailos discusses the contributions of leading members, including Jean Labatut, Charles Moore, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Kenneth Frampton. For architects maturing after World War II, Otero-Pailos contends, architectural history was a problem rather than a given. Paradoxically, their awareness of modernism’s historicity led some of them to search for an ahistorical experiential constant that might underpin all architectural expression. They drew from phenomenology, exploring the work of Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Ricoeur, which they translated for architectural audiences. Initially, the concept that experience could be a timeless architectural language provided a unifying intellectual basis for the stylistic pluralism that characterized postmodernism. It helped give theory—especially the theory of architectural history—a new importance over practice. However, as Otero-Pailos makes clear, architectural phenomenologists could not accept the idea of theory as an end in itself. In the mid-1980s they were caught in the contradictory and untenable position of having to formulate their own demotion of theory. Otero-Pailos reveals how, ultimately, the rise of architectural phenomenology played a crucial double role in the rise of postmodernism, creating the antimodern specter of a historical consciousness and offering the modern notion of essential experience as the means to defeat it.
Book Synopsis How Architecture Learned to Speculate by : Mona Mahall
Download or read book How Architecture Learned to Speculate written by Mona Mahall and published by igmade.edition. This book was released on 2009 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the speculative in architecture becomes a topic of critical research. It is investigated not as idealistic but as strategic acting within endless modernity. This modernity implies that speculation, as strategic acting, is not only applied to economic but also to political and aesthetic values. Values become mobile, valuations become a play with highs and lows, authors (architects) become winners or losers, and culture becomes fashion. Includes projects by NL Architects, MVRDV, Aristide Antonas, FAT, Ralf Schreiber, Pascual Sisto, Ant Farm, Caspar Stracke, OMA, JODI, Kevin Bauman and others. [From publisher's website].
Book Synopsis Sigfried Giedion by : Sokratis Georgiadis
Download or read book Sigfried Giedion written by Sokratis Georgiadis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After studying art history with Heinrich Wolfflin, Giedion followed a polemical career that went far beyond the conventional bounds of academia. He defined the historical context and significance of the modern movement, proclaiming its goals and chronicling its progress. As General Secretary of the CIAM (International Congress for Modern Architecture) he was the organisational and theoretical focus of the modernist debate for over forty years.
Book Synopsis Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcrete by : Sigfried Giedion
Download or read book Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcrete written by Sigfried Giedion and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcretre (1928)—published now for the first time in English—Sigfried Giedion positioned himself as an eloquent advocate of modern architecture. This was the first book to exalt Le Corbusier as the artistic champion of the new movement. It also spelled out many of the tenets of Modernism that are now regarded as myths, among them the impoverishment of nineteenth-century architectural thinking and practice, the contrasting vigor of engineering innovations, and the notion of Modernism as technologically preordained.
Book Synopsis Of Greater Dignity than Riches by : Farhan Karim
Download or read book Of Greater Dignity than Riches written by Farhan Karim and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim argues, economic scarcity became a central inspiration for architectural modernism in the subcontinent. As India moved from colonial rule to independence, the Indian government, business entities, international NGOs, and intergovernmental agencies took major initiatives to modernize housing conditions and the domestic environment of the state’s low-income population. Of Greater Dignity than Riches traces multiple international origins of austerity as an essential ingredient of postcolonial development. By prescribing model villages, communities, and ideal houses for the working class, this project of austerity eventually reduced poverty into a stylized architectural representation. In this rich and original study, Karim explains the postwar and postcolonial history of low-cost housing as an intertwined process of global transferences of knowledge, Cold War cultural politics, postcolonial nationalism, and the politics of economic development.
Book Synopsis The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 by : Eric Paul Mumford
Download or read book The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 written by Eric Paul Mumford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne traces the development and promotion of its influential concept of the "Functional City."
Book Synopsis Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art: Han by : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art: Han written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture by : R. Stephen Sennott
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture written by R. Stephen Sennott and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2004 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages and more, visit the Encyclope dia of 20th Century Architecture website. Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the twentieth century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across traditional geographic and cultural boundaries.
Book Synopsis Photography and Sculpture by : Sarah Hamill
Download or read book Photography and Sculpture written by Sarah Hamill and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, when the new medium of photography was pressed into service to illustrate sculpture, photographs of sculptural objects have directed viewers as to what, in the course of ambling around a sculpture, was the single perfect moment to stop and look. What is the photograph’s place in writing the history of sculpture? How has it changed according to culture, generation, criti-cal conviction, and changes in media? Photography and Sculpture: The Art Object in Reproduction studies aspects of these questions from the perspectives of sixteen leading art historians. Their essays consider iconic photographs, archival collections, new and forgotten technologies, and conceptual challenges in photographing three-dimensional forms that have directed changing historical and stylistic attitudes about how we see, write about, and narrate histories of sculpture. Chapters on such varied topics as picturing Conceptual art, manipulating sacred images in India to be non-photographs, and framing Roman art with an iPad illustrate the latent visual and narrative powers and ever-expanding potential of these images of sculpture.
Book Synopsis Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror by : Martino Stierli
Download or read book Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror written by Martino Stierli and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated reevaluation of the seminal architectural manifesto Learning from Las Vegas. It explores the significance of this controversial publication by situating it in the artistic, architectural, and urbanist discourse of the 1960s and '70s, and by evaluating the book's enduring influence of visual studies and architectural research.
Book Synopsis Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians by : Society of Architectural Historians
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians written by Society of Architectural Historians and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special issues.
Book Synopsis Tropical Housing and Planning Monthly Bulletin by :
Download or read book Tropical Housing and Planning Monthly Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Historiography of Modern Architecture by : Panayotis Tournikiotis
Download or read book The Historiography of Modern Architecture written by Panayotis Tournikiotis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts. Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history—of buildings to books—has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture. Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure. Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twentieth century: Nikolaus Pevsner, Emil Kaufmann, Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, Leonardo Benevolo, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Reyner Banham, Peter Collins, and Manfredo Tafuri. In examining these writers' thoughts, he draws on concepts from critical theory, relating architecture to broader historical models.
Download or read book Dimensions written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dimensions is the annual, student-produced journal of architecture at the University of Michigan. It seeks to contribute to the critical discourse of architectural education by documenting the most compelling work produced by its students, faculty, fellows, and visiting lecturers.
Book Synopsis Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art: Fio by : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the Museum of Modern Art: Fio written by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Methodology of Architectural History by : Demetri Porphyrios
Download or read book On the Methodology of Architectural History written by Demetri Porphyrios and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: