Erich Mendelsohns Amerika

Author : Erich Mendelsohn
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486275918
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erich Mendelsohn's "Amerika" written by Erich Mendelsohn and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted German architect photographed American cityscapes in the 20s. New York's Times Square, Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn Bridge, Trinity Church, many other sites. Chicago's Michigan Avenue, Tribune Building, Federal Reserve Bank. Also buildings and locales in Buffalo and Detroit. Striking, dramatic views by trained observer. Newly translated introduction and captions. Reprinted from rare original edition.

Author : Erich Mendelsohn
Publisher : Birkhauser
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia, Europe, America written by Erich Mendelsohn and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 1989 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248156
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building a new New World written by Jean-Louis Cohen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the 19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.

Author : Richard Neutra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990580492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survival Through Design written by Richard Neutra and published by . This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Neutra's landmark publication Survival Through Design, in print again for the first time in decades, is a cycle of essays providing insights far ahead of their time. With a new introduction by Dr. Barbara Lamprecht and foreword by Dr. Raymond Neutra, it is richly illustrated and intended as a reference for years to come. Neutra's themes are wide-ranging and he extensively plumbs through history to develop his insights, however, the general theme of man-made environment and its impact on human physiological, neurological, emotional states over time, and the designer's potential role as mediator of these conditions, is a constant throughout Survival Through Design with ever greater relevance for the present day. Richard Neutra's landmark publication Survival Through Design, in print again for the first time in decades, is a cycle of essays providing insights far ahead of their time. With a new introduction by Dr. Barbara Lamprecht and foreword by Dr. Raymond Neutra, it is richly illustrated and intended as a reference for years to come.

Author : Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892363339
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hendrik Petrus Berlage written by Hendrik Petrus Berlage and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.

Author : Margret Kentgens-Craig
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262611718
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bauhaus and America written by Margret Kentgens-Craig and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After the Bauhaus's closing in 1933, many of its protagonists movd to the United States, where their acceptance had to be cultivated. In this book Margret Kentgens-Craig shows that the fame of the Bauhaus in America was the result not only of the inherent qualities of its concepts and products, but also of a unique congruence of cultural supply and demand, of a consistent flow of information, and of fine-tuned marketing. Thus the history of the American reception of the Bauhaus in the 1920s and 1930s foreshadows the paterns of fame-making that became typical of the post-World War II art world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David Leatherbarrow
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621946
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surface Architecture written by David Leatherbarrow and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-02-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the building surface, architecture's primary instrument of identity and engagement with its surroundings. Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology. Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron. The properties of a building's surface—whether it is made of concrete, metal, glass, or other materials—are not merely superficial; they construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates. Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its participation in its surroundings.

Author : Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erich Mendelsohn, 1887-1953 written by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nina Rappaport
Publisher : Actar
ISBN 13 : 9781948765145
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vertical Urban Factory written by Nina Rappaport and published by Actar. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition focuses on the spaces of production in cities--both the modernist period and today--and the technologies that have contributed to shifts in factory architecture, manufacturing, and urban design. Vertical Urban Factory tracks the evolution of the vertical urban factory from the first industrial revolution to the present and provides an analysis of the political, social, and economic factors that have shaped today's global industrial landscape. Ultimately, it provokes new concepts for the futureof urban manufacturing, and the necessity of creating new paradigms for sustainable, self-sufficient urban industry. Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, manufacturing process diagrams, and infographics by MGMT Design.

Author : Sigmund Mendelsohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saturated Civilization written by Sigmund Mendelsohn and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: