Richard Neutra And The Search For Modern Architecture

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 : Thomas S. Hines
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9R/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 Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. This book includes his experiences through the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady excesses of mid-century ascendancy, and the strains of its slow demise.

Author : Thomas S. Hines
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195030297
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/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 New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie over het werk van de Amerikaanse architect (1892-1970), waarin tevens de ontwikkeling van de moderne architectuur tot uiting komt.

Author : Sylvia Lavin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262622130
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Form Follows Libido written by Sylvia Lavin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How modern architecture came to embrace the urges and fears of the affective unconscious. "Eight million Americans a year cool their heels in psychiatric waiting rooms. Design can help lower this nervous overhead."—Richard Neutra, 1954 Sylvia Lavin's Form Follows Libido argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. In a series of engaging essays weaving through the designs and writings of this Vienna-born, California-based architect, Lavin discovers in Neutra a sustained and poignant psychoanalytic reflection set in the context of a burgeoning psychoanalytic culture in America. Lavin shows that Neutra's redirection of modernism constituted not a lyrical regression to sentimentality but a deliberate advance of architectural theory and technique to engage the unconscious mind, fueled by the ideas of psychoanalysis that were being rapidly disseminated at the time. In Neutra's responses to a vivid range of issues, from psychoanalysis proper to the popular psychology of tele-evangelical prayer, Lavin uncovers a radical reconstitution of the architectural discipline. Arguing persuasively that the received historical views of both psychoanalysis and architecture have led to a suppression of their compelling coincidences and unorthodoxies, Lavin sets out to unleash midcentury architecture's hidden libido. Neither Neutra nor psychoanalysis emerges unscathed from her investigation of how architecture came to be saturated by the intrigues of affect, often against its will. If Reyner Banham sought to put architecture "on the couch," then Lavin, through Neutra, leaps beyond Banham's ameliorative aim to lure contemporary architecture into the lush and dangerous liaisons of environmental design.

Author : Arthur Drexler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Richard Neutra written by Arthur Drexler and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Esther McCoy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Neutra written by Esther McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Drexler
Publisher : New York : Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Richard Neutra written by Arthur Drexler and published by New York : Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 1982 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition which opened July 14, 1982 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Author : Richard Joseph Neutra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982225134
Total Pages : 379 pages
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Download or read book Life and Shape written by Richard Joseph Neutra and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he followed it all of his life, Richard Neutra (1892-1970) must have relished the maxim of the Greek philosopher Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living." In his books, articles, lectures, correspondence, and even casual conversations, Neutra constantly examined, not only his own life, but the lives of others - present and past - and the human and natural world they inhabited. Nowhere was this truer than in his autobiography "Life and Shape", first published in 1962, which now, after years of being out of print, has again happily come back to life. As opposed to "Survival Through Design" (1954), his superb collection of densely philosophical essays, Neutra took a different tack in "Life and Shape", following a lighter and more deliberately relaxed approach. It was as if the usually serious and intense Neutra was giving himself permission to reveal his richly ironic sense of humor and to probe areas in his personal experience which he had not examined as closely before. These included hitherto unrecorded memories of his parents, siblings, and his childhood and education in imperial Vienna, his numbing experiences as an Austrian artillery officer in World War I, and the beginnings of his architectural consciousness in his response to the work of Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Erich Mendelsohn, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. As in the autobiographies of Sullivan and Wright, "Life and Shape" concentrates on Neutra's earlier years, both in Europe and America. While he naturally recounts his memories of such well-known commissions as the Lovell Health House (1929), his own Van der Leeuv Research House (1933) and the von Sternberg House (1935), he also muses on such less famous buildings as the small, and now virtually forgotten, Mosk House (1933). "Life and Shape" also confirms Neutra's obsession with the passage of time and his firm resolution never to waste it. Like Sullivan and Wright, Neutra eschewed writing a factual chronicle, and - at the age of 70 - composed instead a meditation on the aspects of his life and work that seemed, in retrospect, to be the most interesting and significant. He felt no need to try to "include everything" but rather to present an honest recounting of his memory of his life. In writing my own "Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture" [Oxford University Press, 1982; Rizzoli Press, 2006], I relied on "Life and Shape" when I wanted an account of Neutra's experiences told in his own authentic voice. For future generations of architects, historian, and readers, it is good to have it back. - Thomas S. Hines, UCLA Professor Emeritus of History and Architecture

Author : Edward R. Ford
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262562027
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Details of Modern Architecture written by Edward R. Ford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period 1890 - 1932 this book focuses on various recognised masters explaining the detailing and construction techniques used in their buildings.

Author : Tim Street-Porter
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847861872
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palm Springs written by Tim Street-Porter and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying homage to the seminal mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, this luxurious book showcases historic jet-set homes designed by legendary talents such as Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, and Paul Williams, as well as private residences by today’s leading tastemakers. Since Gary Cooper built one of the first modernist houses in Palm Springs in the 1930s, this desert oasis has entranced Hollywood. A mecca for the international jet set that lured Frank Sinatra, Walter Annenberg, and others, Palm Springs came into its own architecturally as a haven for visionary modernists such as Richard Neutra, who were practicing the International Style in Los Angeles. The architectural legacy remains unsurpassed for its originality and influence, and recently many of the city’s modernist residential treasures have been restored. In original new photography, Palm Springs captures the allure of this famed modernist destination. The book profiles outstanding examples such as the Annenberg Estate, the Ford House, and the Kaufmann House, shown in their splendor, as well as today’s restorations by top interior designers such as Martyn Lawrence Bullard and fashion designer Trina Turk. A resource section provides modernist furnishing stores and other points of interest.