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The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

Author : Iain Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131704486X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew written by Iain Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its spread into the late-colonial arena and finally, to its re-evaluation that resulted in a more expressive, formalist approach in the post-war era. This book thoroughly examines Fry and Drew's highly influential 'Tropical Architecture' in West Africa and India, whilst also discussing their British work, such as their post World War II projects for the Festival of Britain, Harlow New Town, Pilkington Brothers’ Headquarters and Coychurch Crematorium. It highlights the collaborative nature of Fry and Drew's work, including schemes undertaken with Elizabeth Denby, Walter Gropius, Denys Lasdun, Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier. Positioning their architecture, writing and educational endeavours within a wider context, this book illustrates the significant artistic and cultural contributions made by Fry and Drew throughout their lengthy careers.

The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

Author : Iain Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317044851
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew written by Iain Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its spread into the late-colonial arena and finally, to its re-evaluation that resulted in a more expressive, formalist approach in the post-war era. This book thoroughly examines Fry and Drew's highly influential 'Tropical Architecture' in West Africa and India, whilst also discussing their British work, such as their post World War II projects for the Festival of Britain, Harlow New Town, Pilkington Brothers’ Headquarters and Coychurch Crematorium. It highlights the collaborative nature of Fry and Drew's work, including schemes undertaken with Elizabeth Denby, Walter Gropius, Denys Lasdun, Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier. Positioning their architecture, writing and educational endeavours within a wider context, this book illustrates the significant artistic and cultural contributions made by Fry and Drew throughout their lengthy careers.

Tropical Architecture

Author : Maxwell Fry
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5885016836
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Architecture written by Maxwell Fry and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1964 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dry and humid zones

Village Housing in the Tropics

Author : Jane Drew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135018227
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Village Housing in the Tropics written by Jane Drew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical Architecture, although now a highly contested and debated term, is the name given to European modern architecture that has been modified to suit the climatic and sometimes cultural context of hot countries. These hot countries were labelled ‘the tropics’ and were often European colonies, or countries that had recently won their independence. Fry & Drew’s book, written on the threshold of the end of the British Empire, was one of the first publications to offer practical advice to architects working in ‘the tropics’, based on the empirical studies they conducted whilst based in British West Africa during the Second World War. The book with its numerous illustrations, plans and easy to follow explanations became a key manual for all architects working in hot climates, and in particular those tasked with designing dwellings and small town plans. Although the Royal Engineers and Schools of Tropical Medicine had long been designing and campaigning for better planning, improved sanitation and had for example developed methods of cross-ventilation, this book became an instant hit. ‘Tropical Architecture’ suddenly bloomed into its own distinct canon, and by 1955 the Architectural Association had set up a course specialising in tropical architecture, led for a short time by Fry. Village Housing in the Tropics had a significant impact when it was written on a profession that had had little guidance on working in hot climates and on architecture students and universities who began to modify their courses to accommodate different conditions. Although from a post-colonial perspective many scholars now associate this architecture as being a continuation of the Imperial mission, this does not reduce the significance of the publication. Indeed, Tropical Architecture is regarded as being the forerunner to ‘green architecture’, developing passive low energy buildings that are tailored to suit their climate and built with local materials.

Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone

Author : Maxwell Fry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone written by Maxwell Fry and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew : Tropical Source Book

Author : Iain Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955788482
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew : Tropical Source Book written by Iain Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tropical Toolbox. Fry and Drew and the Search for an African Modernity. Ediz. Illustrata

Author : Jacopo Galli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788862423687
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Toolbox. Fry and Drew and the Search for an African Modernity. Ediz. Illustrata written by Jacopo Galli and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tropical Toolbox

Author : Jacopo Galli
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
ISBN 13 : 886242728X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Toolbox written by Jacopo Galli and published by LetteraVentidue Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew are two key figures of British architecture in the second half of the twentieth century, their most important work was the book Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones, a manual compiled from the experience acquired in Ghana and Nigeria between 1949 and 1960. The manual is the formalisation of a design method specific for tropical areas, the search for a renewed rooting of modern architecture, not based on formal research or the revival of folkloric themes, but on the close relationship between environmental support and anthropic intervention. The design method has its roots in African colonial history and was the result of a long process of adaptation of Western modernist ideas to the extreme climatic conditions of the African continent. A cosmopolitan localism based on the application of science in humanistic terms and capable of combining global and local dimensions was translated into an approach that respected the deep roots of tradition while providing innovation in terms of architectural solutions.

Documenting Chandigarh

Author : Jane Beverly Drew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Documenting Chandigarh written by Jane Beverly Drew and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Architecture and the Environment

Author : Maxwell Fry
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780047200205
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and the Environment written by Maxwell Fry and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Documenting Chandigarh

Author : Jane Beverly Drew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Documenting Chandigarh written by Jane Beverly Drew and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Developing Iran

Author : Hamidreza Mahboubi Soufiani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000987604
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Developing Iran written by Hamidreza Mahboubi Soufiani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based ‘company town’ projects built in association with the ‘Big Three’ powers of World War II. The book’s narrative builds upon a tripartite research design that chronologically traces the formation and development of the oil, steel, and copper industries, respectively favoured by Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States in this part of the world. By applying three sets of comparative studies, the book provides critical vantage points to three different ideological design paradigms: postcolonial regionalism, socialist universalism, and rationalist modern nation building. From a global political context, the book contributes to the disclosure of new information about the geopolitical confrontation of these three nations in the Global South to increase their sphere of influence after the Second World War. Furthermore, it demonstrates how postwar architectural modernism was adopted by each power and adapted to their ideological mind frame to fulfil distinct social, cultural, political, and economic targets. This book examines multiple interconnections between architecture, politics, and industrial development by adopting a transdisciplinary approach based on comprehensive fieldwork, site surveys, and the analysis of original multilingual documents. As such, it will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, history, international relations, and Middle Eastern studies.

Art in a Machine Age

Author : Maxwell Fry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003807178
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Art in a Machine Age written by Maxwell Fry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1969, Art in a Machine Age is based on four lectures given by Maxwell Fry at the Royal Academy in 1968 and offers an alternative approach to technocracy in the solution of major problems, especially those that concern the environment. It talks about various themes like the architecture of instinct; a conscious architect; the emotional basis of architecture; the age we live in; the pre and post war years; and the present times. It is fundamental to this book that art should be recognized as author describes it, that is, as a necessity for, and not a derivative of, life. This is a must read for students of architecture and general readers interested in art and architecture.

Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire

Author : G. A. Bremner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191022322
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire written by G. A. Bremner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout today's postcolonial world, buildings, monuments, parks, streets, avenues, entire cities even, remain as witness to Britain's once impressive if troubled imperial past. These structures are a conspicuous and near inescapable reminder of that past, and therefore, the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire is a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities, often lying at the heart of social tension and debate over how that identity is best represented. This volume provides an overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Although much research has been carried out on architecture and urban planning in Britain's empire in recent decades, no single, comprehensive reference source exists. The essays compiled here remedy this deficiency. With its extensive chronological and regional coverage by leading scholars in the field, this volume will quickly become a seminal text for those who study, teach, and research the relationship between empire and the built environment in the British context. It provides an up-to-date account of past and current historiographical approaches toward the study of British imperial and colonial architecture and urbanism, and will prove equally useful to those who study architecture and urbanism in other European imperial and transnational contexts. The volume is divided in two main sections. The first section deals with overarching thematic issues, including building typologies, major genres and periods of activity, networks of expertise and the transmission of ideas, the intersection between planning and politics, as well as the architectural impact of empire on Britain itself. The second section builds on the first by discussing these themes in relation to specific geographical regions, teasing out the variations and continuities observable in context, both practical and theoretical.

Modern Asian Design

Author : D.J. Huppatz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474296866
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Modern Asian Design written by D.J. Huppatz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Asian Design provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of Asian design in the modern period, both tracing historical threads and offering a theoretical framework within which to chart the history of design in Asia. Rather than a singular “Asian history”, this book presents a series of studies centred on trade routes, colonial relationships, regional networks and cross-cultural exchanges. Modern Asian Design builds on existing resources beyond design history in an effort to map the field, focusing particularly on relations between Asia and the West and also across Asian design cultures. Opening with a brief overview of trade and exchange networks in the 17th and 18th centuries, the bulk of this study comprises analysis of the development of modern design in Asia during the later 19th and early 20th centuries, a period of rapid modernisation. The book's final two chapters bring these central ideas into a contemporary and highly relevant context.

Modern Architecture and Climate

Author : Daniel A. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691248656
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture and Climate written by Daniel A. Barber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fossil-fuel powered air-conditioning became widely available—Daniel Barber brings to light a vibrant and dynamic architectural discussion involving design, materials, and shading systems as means of interior climate control. He looks at projects by well-known architects such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Lúcio Costa, Mies van der Rohe, and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and the work of climate-focused architects such as MMM Roberto, Olgyay and Olgyay, and Cliff May. Drawing on the editorial projects of James Marston Fitch, Elizabeth Gordon, and others, he demonstrates how images and diagrams produced by architects helped conceptualize climate knowledge, alongside the work of meteorologists, physicists, engineers, and social scientists. Barber describes how this novel type of environmental media catalyzed new ways of thinking about climate and architectural design. Extensively illustrated with archival material, Modern Architecture and Climate provides global perspectives on modern architecture and its evolving relationship with a changing climate, showcasing designs from Latin America, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. This timely and important book reconciles the cultural dynamism of architecture with the material realities of ever-increasing carbon emissions from the mechanical cooling systems of buildings and offers a historical foundation for today’s zero-carbon design.

Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond

Author : Lisa Godson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501336118
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond written by Lisa Godson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity and religion are not mutually exclusive. Setting German and Irish church, synagogue and mosque architecture side by side over the last century highlights the place for the celebration of the new within faiths whose appeal lies in part in the stability of belief they offer across time. Inspired by radically modern German churches of the 1920s and 1930s, this volume offers new insights into designers of all three types of sacred buildings, working at home and abroad. It offers new scholarship on the unknown phenomenon of mid-century ecclesiastical architecture in sub-Saharan Africa by Irish designers; a critical appraisal of the overlooked Frank Lloyd Wright-trained Andrew Devane and an analysis of accommodating difficult pasts and challenging futures with contemporary synagogue and mosque architecture in Germany. With a focus on influence and processes, alongside conservationists and historians, it features critical insights by the designers of some of the most celebrated contemporary sacred buildings, including Niall McLaughlin who writes on his multiple award-winning Bishop Edward King Chapel and Amandus Sattler, architect of the innovative Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Munich.