Architecture 1900

Author : William J. R. Curtis
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture Since 1900 written by William J. R. Curtis and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating analysis of the modern architectural tradition and its origins. Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a comprehensive narrative which provides a setting for the detailed examination of buildings. Throughout the book the author's focus is on the individual architect, and on the qualities that give outstanding buildings their lasting value.For the third edition, the text has been radically revised and expanded, incorporating much new material and a fresh appreciation of regional identity and variety. Seven chapters are entirely new, including expanded coverage of recent world architecture.Described by James Ackerman of Harvard University as "immeasurably the finest work covering this field in existence", this book presents a penetrating analysis of the modern tradition and its origins, tracing the creative interaction between old and new that has generated such an astonishing richness of architectural forms across the world and throughout the century.

Author : Robert A. M. Stern
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York 1900 written by Robert A. M. Stern and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical photographs, plans, and elevations document the cultural and artistic flowering in New York.

Author : Bertrand Lemoine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture in France 1800-1900 written by Bertrand Lemoine and published by . This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history of French architecture during the 19th century.

Author : Hugo Segawa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146145431X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture of Brazil written by Hugo Segawa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture of Brazil: 1900-1990 examines the processes that underpin modern Brazilian architecture under various influences and characterizes different understandings of modernity, evident in the chapter topics of this book. Accordingly, the author does not give overall preference to particular architects nor works, with the exception of a few specific works and architects, including Warchavchik, Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, and Vilanova Artigas.

Author : Alla Myzelev
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351575910
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940 " written by Alla Myzelev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toronto - the largest and one of the most multicultural cities in Canada - boasts an equally interesting and diverse architectural heritage. Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940 tells a story of the significant changes in domestic life in the first 40 years of the twentieth century. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach to studies of residential spaces, the author examines how questions of modernity and modern living influenced not only architectural designs but also interior furnishings, modes of transportation and ways to spend leisure time. The book discusses several case studies, some of which are known both locally and internationally (for example Casa Loma), while others such as Guild of All Arts or Sherwood have been virtually unstudied by historians of visual culture. The overall goal of the book is to put Toronto on the map of scholars of urban design and architecture and to uncover previously unknown histories of design, craft and domesticity in Toronto. This study will be of interest not only to the academic community (namely architects, designers, craftspeople and scholars of these disciplines, along with social historians), but also the general public interested in local history and/or visual culture.

Author : Mohamed Elshahed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774168697
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cairo Since 1900 written by Mohamed Elshahed and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete expressionism, and modernist design. Yet while much has been published on Cairo's ancient, medieval, and early-modern architectural heritage, the city's modern architecture has to date not received the attention it deserves. Cairo since 1900: An Architectural Guide is the first comprehensive architectural guide to the constructions that have shaped and continue to shape the Egyptian capital since the early twentieth century. From the sleek apartment tower for Inji Zada in Ghamra designed by Antoine Selim Nahas in 1937, to the city's many examples of experimental church architecture, and visible landmarks such as the Mugamma and Arab League buildings, Cairo is home to a rich store of modernist building styles. Arranged by geographical area, the guide includes entries for more than 220 buildings and sites of note, each entry consisting of concise, explanatory text describing the building and its significance accompanied by photographs, drawings, and maps. This pocket-sized volume is an ideal companion for the city's visitors and residents as well as an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Cairo's architecture and urban history.

Author : Vera Horvat-Pintarić
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vienna 1900 written by Vera Horvat-Pintarić and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wolfgang Braunfels
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226071794
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Design in Western Europe written by Wolfgang Braunfels and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-01-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What makes a city endure and prosper? In this masterful survey of a thousand years of urban architecture, Wolfgang Braunfels identifies certain themes common to cities as different as Siena and London, Munich and Venice ... Braunfels describes scores of cities, classifying them as cathedral cities, city-states, imperial cities, maritime cities, "ideal cities" (those towns which, planned by often absent rulers for a specefic purpose, failed to develop independent lives) ... Lavishly illustrated with city plans, bird's-eye views, early renderings, and modern photographs, Urban Design in Western Europe will both delight and instruct architects, urban planners, historians, and travelers."--Page 4 of cover

Author : Robert A.M. Stern
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580930271
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York 1880 written by Robert A.M. Stern and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City architecture and urbanism. The three previous books in the series, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960, have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who defined New York over the course of the twentieth century. In this volume, Stern turns back to 1880 -- the end of the Civil War, the beginning of European modernism -- to trace the earlier history of the city. This dynamic era saw the technological advances and acts of civic and private will that formed the identity of New York City as we know it today. The installation of water, telephone, and electricity infrastructures as well as the advent of electric lighting, the elevator, and mass transit allowed the city to grow both out and up. The office building and apartment house types were envisioned and defined, changing the ways that New Yorkers worked and lived. Such massive public projects as the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park became realities, along with such private efforts as Grand Central Station. Like the other three volumes, New York 1880 is an in-depth presentation of the buildings and plans that transformed New York from a harbor town into a world-class metropolis. A broad range of primary sources -- critics and writers, architects, planners, city officials -- brings the time period to life and allows the city to tell its own complex story. The book is generously illustrated with over 1,200 archival photographs, which show the city as it was, and as some parts of it still are.

Author : M. Christine Boyer
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manhattan Manners written by M. Christine Boyer and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style, 1850-1900 mines a wealth of vintage photographs, maps, and historic periodicals to recreate the era during which the characteristics that distinguish Manhattan as a city to this day-innovation, eclecticism, peripatetic fashion, and a dizzying pace of commercial and real estate development-were formed. A depiction and an assessment of New York City in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, Manhattan Manners is a tour of a quintessentially urban American place from its great public parks, squares, monuments, and fashionable boulevards to its ever-changing neighborhoods of private town houses, brownstones, luxury apartments, and tenement buildings."--Publisher's description.