The New Vision For The New Architecture

Author : Peter Collins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773525641
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concrete written by Peter Collins and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collins provides a thorough history of the new nineteenth century material and goes on to examine the theories on its architectural expression, focussing on determining role of the reinforced concrete frame. He argues that Perret provides the first rational and effective expression of classical principles in modern construction. Published in 1959 and out of print since 1975, this new edition of Concrete includes a foreword by Kenneth Frampton, a scholarly introduction by Réjean Legault, and several additional essays on Perret by Peter Collins. From the Foreword by Kenneth Frampton: "Concrete remains a valuable historical text that in many respects has never been given its due. It is an unmatched pioneering history of the development of reinforced concrete up to 1914. It records and analyses the densely articulated, if provincial, English debate with respect to the aesthetic challenge posed by the increasing popularity of concrete from around 1870 onwards. Finally, until very recently it was the only readily available monograph on Auguste Perret in English. In this regard it is particularly valuable as a thorough and perceptive assessment of Perret's life and career, one that still stands as a point of departure for all current attempts to situate this seminal architect within the wider trajectory of twentieth-century culture."

Author : László Moholy-Nagy
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486138410
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Vision written by László Moholy-Nagy and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a valuable introduction to the Bauhaus movement, is generously illustrated with examples of students' experiments and typical contemporary achievements. The text also contains an autobiographical sketch.

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 8891831956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Radical Vision by OPEN written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the radical architectural strategies and poetic cultural projects developed by OPEN Architecture, and the opportunities and challenges that arise from redefining built forms. Drawing on a series of conversations and site visits to six recent groundbreaking projects, architecture writer Catherine Shaw describes how Beijing-based OPEN Architecture is reinventing and responding to China’s complex and fast-changing cultural landscape with projects that mark a new era for contemporary Chinese cultural architecture. OPEN Architecture was founded in New York in 2003 by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, while their Beijing office opened in 2008. From a contemporary art gallery buried beneath a sand dune to a sculptural open-air theatre in a remote mountain valley near the Great Wall, co-founders Li Hu and Huang Wenjing re-evaluate conventional Western assumptions about culture and design as they base each pioneering project on the needs and plea-sures of humanity within the context of diverse terrains and climates. In doing so, they not only consider how cultural architecture looks, but how it works. Projects are presented with commentary and contextual information as well as new analyses and archival material, including outstanding color photography, plans and drawings, and exploratory sketches. This book provides a fresh perspective on contemporary cultural architecture and place making, hig-lighting the architects’ sources of inspiration, their challenges, and their construction methods, showing how each impactful project responds to China’s distinctive context.

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892368990
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward an Architecture written by Le Corbusier and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

Author : Oscar Eugenio Bellini
Publisher : White Star Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers in Architecture written by Oscar Eugenio Bellini and published by White Star Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New developments in design in Dubai have changed forever the face of world architecture. Here, the traditional Islamic culture co-exists with a radical movement towards modernity, resulting in a futuristic architecture, dominated by skyscrapers that seem to defy gravity, and constructions that embody the cutting-edge of technology. A valuable resource for architecture students and design professionals alike, this book is packed with more than 650 photographs and an authoritative text that explores the new glass and steel masterpieces of Dubai. From state-of-the-art hotels to luxury residences to the headquarters of some of the world’s most important financial institutions, specially commissioned photographs showcase the innovations that make this an area of great interest to design professionals. Superb images depict the graceful sail-shaped silhouette of the opulent seven-star hotel Burj Al Arab and convey the majesty of the twin Emirates Towers. Other remarkable structures featured in this book include Dubai Sports City, Hydropolis Underwater Resort Hotel, Media-1, and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Tower, to name just a few.

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486315649
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a New Architecture written by Le Corbusier and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering manifesto by founder of "International School." Technical and aesthetic theories, views of industry, economics, relation of form to function, "mass-production split," and much more. Profusely illustrated.

Author : Derek Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136428674
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and the Urban Environment written by Derek Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well illustrated text forms a critical appraisal of the place and direction of architecture and urban design in a new world order at the start of the 21st century. The book defines architectural and environmental goals for the New Age by analysing recent contemporary work for its responsiveness to important social and environmental issues and comparing it to successful precedents in architecture. It argues that this new sustainable approach to architecture should be recognised as a new development of mainstream architectural history. This practical guide illustrates current social and natural resource issues to aid architects in their approach to future design. Environmental economics is presented as a potential bridge over the divide between the expectations of the business sector and the concerns of environmental lobbies. Through examples and case studies, an accessible analysis of carefully researched data, drawn from primary sources over four continents, allows the author to outline the current urgency for architects and urban designers to respond with real commitment to current and future changing contexts. This book expresses a holistic vision and proposes a value system in response to the diagnosis. It includes: sound architectural and environmental ethics; end user involvement in the design process and technological advances aimed at sustainable resource use. Includes international case studies from Europe, North America, the Developing world including South Africa, South America and Central Asia.

Author : László Moholy-Nagy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture written by László Moholy-Nagy and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham Cairns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317001397
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visioning Technologies written by Graham Cairns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different ‘technologies of sight’ – understood to include orthographic projection, perspective drawing, telescopic devices, photography, film and computer visualization, amongst others. Each chapter deals with its own area and historical period of expertise, organized sequentially to mark out and analyse the historical evolution of how architecture has been transformed by technologically induced shifts in human perception from the 15th century until today. This book underlines the way in which architectural forms and design processes have developed historically in conjunction with the systems of sight we manufacture technologically and suggests this continues today. Paradoxically, it is premised on the argument that these technological systems tend, in their initial formulations, to obtain ever greater realism in our visualizations of the physical world.

Author : Herman George Scheffauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Vision in the German Arts written by Herman George Scheffauer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essence of expressionism.--The vivifying of space.--A candidate for immortality [Otto Braun]--The machine as slave and master.--The "absolute" poem--A pæau against the age.--The architecture of aspiration.--The visible symphony.--Figures of war and forces of death.--The laughing synthesis.--Activistic architecture.--The dynamic dramatist.--The intensive Shakespeare.--The chromatic "Othello"--The drama on fire.--"The machine-storemers."--The organization of the spirit