Irving Gill And The Architecture Of Reform

Author : Thomas S. Hines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform written by Thomas S. Hines and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hines places his work within an international context: as Gill's identification with the modern movement developed, his work evolved from the influence of the East Coast Shingle Style and Wright's Midwest Prairie Style to become closer in spirit to the work of the Austrian Adolf Loos. Gill and Loos were both admired by the second-generation modernists Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra, who studied under Loos in Vienna and learned from Gill in Los Angeles. Hines also explores the social dimensions of Gill's work.

Author : Irving Gill
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1586854461
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irving J. Gill written by Irving Gill and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architect Irving J. Gill (18701936) is widely considered the first and preeminent architect of the Modernist era. In her groundbreaking work Five California Architects, Esther McCoy asserts that, along with Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, and R. M. Schindler, Gill is one of Californiaˇs most important architects. This book looks at the life and architectural achievements of Gill, with brilliant photography by Marvin Rand and McCoyˇs insightful text from Five California Architects. Additionally, Gill's own writing (excerpted from The Craftsman (1916))describes his architectural and design philosophy. As one of the most influential architects of the late-nineteenth to early twentieth century, Gill is said to have been so far advanced for his time that there was yet no discussion of ≈modernism The stunning combination of Rand's photographic art and McCoy's writing makes Irving J. Gill an important addition to the library of any serious scholar or fan of Gill, California architecture, Arts and Crafts, modernism, or turn-of-the-century development in building. Marvin Rand gained his photographic education at Los Angeles City College, the U. S. Air Force Photographic School, and Art Center College of Design. He has made a career as an architectural photographer, and his clients have included Charles Eames, Cesar Pelli, Louis Kahn, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Gwathmey/Siegal & Associates, William Pereira & Associates, the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name a few. His photographs have been featured in twenty exhibitions

Author : Jocelyn Gibbs
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1950192156
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barton Myers written by Jocelyn Gibbs and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on the vast archival resources of its Architecture and Design Collection, the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum (University of California, Santa Barbara) presents an assessment of 50 years of design by Barton Myers (b. 1934), beginning with his work in the Toronto firm A.J. Diamond and Barton Myers (1967-1975) to his own offices in Toronto and Los Angeles, Barton Myers Associates (1975-present). Myers's strongest architectural ideas come out of the planning strategies of his early neighborhood activism in 1970s Toronto, his grounding in history, and his training in the classical traditions of site and space planning. Barton Myers is an avowed urbanist--a self-described radical in his early advocacy of old-fashioned qualities like density, mixed-use of new and re-purposed materials, and contextual planning in the late 1960s when that fundamentally conservative position was considered counter-culture. Myers' urban manifesto was codified in "Vacant Lottery," the title of the Design Quarterly issue co-edited by Myers and Canadian architect and educator George Baird in 1978 and which led to a renewal of interest in urban planning and offered a strategy for increasing population densities within cities while preserving the existing residential fabric. The term lived on long past the journal's circulation cycle as both an urban infill strategy and an acknowledgment of the ceding of city planning responsibility to the "lottery" of private developers. Myers's design practice has thus always been a social justice practice as well. Myers is also a brilliant designer of residential houses that take advantage of local landscape contexts and adaptive reuse of building materials, including steel and glass. Five essays - on urban planning, civic structures, reuse of historic buildings, single- and multi-family housing, and theaters - reinforce Myers's commitment to urbanism and reveal his flexibility with modes of modernism. Natalie Shivers introduces the early planning work in Toronto and traces the "vacant lottery" idea of neighborhood infill to the influential Grand Avenue project in Los Angeles. Howard Shubert examines the architectural and planning strategies, and political complexities, of several civic structures in Canada and the United States. Luis Hoyos explores Myers's additions and adaptations to historic buildings in diverse urban contexts. Lauren Bricker focuses on the use of steel and other industrial materials in Myers's houses and analyses the neighborhood-based designs of his multi-family housing. Charles Oakley describes the technical innovations, site planning, and historical underpinnings of Myers's theaters and performance complexes."

Author : Thomas S. Hines
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520085893
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture written by Thomas S. Hines and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important contribution to the understanding of 'modernist' culture in the United States and a perceptive analysis of the achievement of a major American architect, with a European background and an international reputation."--William Jordy, Brown University "This study, part biography and part architectural analysis, is a modern masterpiece of architectural history. The prose is lucid and sometimes elegant--very much like the work of Richard Neutra which it so brilliantly examines."--Peter Gay, Yale University "An important contribution to the understanding of 'modernist' culture in the United States and a perceptive analysis of the achievement of a major American architect, with a European background and an international reputation."--William Jordy, Brown University

Author : R. Stephen Sennott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9781579584344
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Felicity Lunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783775737111
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbara Probst written by Felicity Lunn and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architect Wiel Arets is also known as a designer, author, and editor of many books and series of books, and is a professor at the arts universities in Berlin, Madrid, and Washington. In this publication he links his interest in architecture to a passion for books. This book presents about ten projects by Wiel Arets, Architects (WAA), which was founded in 1993 and has branches in Amsterdam, Berlin, Maastricht, and Zurich. At the same time it is a book about the increasing importance of architecture books and their design development in recent decades. The concentrated photographs by Dutch photographer Bas Princen not only capture the atmosphere of the works and buildings, but also convey the impact and powerful symbolism of architecture in its primeval sense, as protective shelter.0Exhibition: National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark (October 2013-January 2014) / CentrePasqArt, Biel, Switzerland (February 2014- ).

Author : Robert Winter
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423608936
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles written by Robert Winter and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Author : Yehuda E. Safran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788425218125
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mies van der Rohe written by Yehuda E. Safran and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few architects have had as decisive an influence on 20th-century design as Mies van der Rohe. Despite the importance of Mies' work, it has been somewhat neglected in recent publications. This book proposes a revisiting of his built works through new photographs and material from the MoMA's Mies van der Rohe Archive.List of works featured: Riehl House, PotsdamPerls House, BerlinErnst Werner House, BerlinAfrikanischerstrasse Housing, BerlinWeissenhofsiedlung ApartmentBuilding, StuttgartEsters House, KrefeldLange House, KrefeldGerman Pavilion, BarcelonaTugendhat House, BrnoFarnsworth House, PlanoS. R. Crown Hall, ChicagoLake Shore Drive Apartments, ChicagoCommonwealth PromenadeApartments, ChicagoSeagram Building, New YorkLafayette Park, Detroit2400 Lakeview Apartments, ChicagoSocial Service AdministrationBuilding, ChicagoNeue National Gallerie, BerlinBrown Wing, HoustonIBM Regional Office Building, Chicago

Author : Vincent L. Michael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252037535
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Barry Byrne written by Vincent L. Michael and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Barry Byrne (1883-1967) was one of the first significant apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright, studying in Wright's Oak Park studio from 1902 t0 1908. He followed Wright's principles, but forged an individual style more reminiscent of Louis Sullivan and Irving Gill, with taut planar skins enveloping modern space plans. From 1914 to 1917 he was the American partner of Walter Burley Griffin. In 1922 he designed the first modern Catholic church, St. Thomas Apostle in Chicago, and concentrated on Catholic churches and schools for much of his career. This book charts the entire length of Byrne's work, highlighting its qualities while discussing the cultural conditions that kept it in the shadows of his more famous contemporaries. In 1924 he traveled to Europe where be met Mies, Mendelsohn, Oud and other modernist architects there. He was the only Prairie School architect to build in Europe, designing the concrete Church of Christ the King, built in 1928-31 in Cork, Ireland. Illustrated by more than 100 photographs and drawings, this is the first book-length study of Byrne"--

Author : Esther McCoy
Publisher : Hennessey & Ingalls
ISBN 13 : 9780275717209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five California Architects written by Esther McCoy and published by Hennessey & Ingalls. This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The five architects - Bernard Maybeck, Irving Gill, the brothers Charles and Henry Greene, and R.M. Schindler - whose work and lives are presented here were seminal figures in American architecture. As Californians they were less influenced than their Eastern contemporaries by the European styles that prevailed in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, and each of them devised an original style that has had a profound effect on younger generations of American architects."--The inside cover