Violated Perfection

Author : Ad Graafland
Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789064503894
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Socius of Architecture written by Ad Graafland and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tri-part investigation of architecture, urbanism and design proposals. Critical analysis, sociological research and architectural projects. Critical position regarding the possibility of architecture to engage in the current socio political discourse. Analysis of the Kunsthal in Rotterdam and IJ Bank and Westerdok projects of the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. Description of the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Tokyo. Design proposal for architectural projects and urban research.

Author : Franz Schulze
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226740587
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philip Johnson written by Franz Schulze and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-06-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critically acclaimed biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the twentieth century. The only child of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he graduated from Harvard, and in 1932 he helped stage the historic International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. A patron of the arts and a political activists who flirted with the politics of Hitler, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin, he went on to create controversial and historical structures such as the Glass House, the Roofless Church, the AT & T Building, the Crystal Cathedral, and many more. Johnson's personal charms paired with his manipulative ploys—like his "borrowing" of designs—shine through in this biography. Drawing on Johnson's correspondence, personal photographs, and speeches, and on interviews with his friends and contemporaries, Schulze fills the biography with fascinating information on the architect's family, travels, friends and lovers, and his many buildings and spaces themselves. Franz Schulze is a professor of art at Lake Forest College. He is the author of Fantastic Images: Chicago Art since 1945, One Hundred Years of Chicago Architecture, and Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography.

Author : Carter Wiseman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320541
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century American Architecture written by Carter Wiseman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes landmark buildings that shaped the American 20th century and brings to life architects of the period and the major architectural movements. Discusses the rise of modernism, the growth of historic preservation, the financial aspects of building, and the struggle in design between individualism and community. Includes bandw photos of buildings. Wiseman was architectural critic for New York magazine from 1980 to 1996. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860913238
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exquisite Corpse written by Michael Sorkin and published by Verso. This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Exquisite Corpse' was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it to the next person to draw on until, finally, the sheet was opened to reveal a calculated yet random composition. In this entertaining and provocative book, Michael Sorkin suggests that cities are similarly assembled by many players acting with varying autonomy in a complicit framework. An unfolding terrain of invention, the city is also a means of accommodating disparity, of contextualizing sometimes startling juxtapositions. Sorkin's aim is to widen the debate about the creation of buildings beyond the immediate issues of technology and design. He discusses the politics and culture of architecture with daring, often devastating, observations about the institutions and personalities who have dominated the profession over the past decade. Their preoccupation with the empty style of 'beach houses and Disneyland' has consistently trivialized the full constructive scope of contemporary architecture's possibilities. Sorkin's interventions range from the development scandals of New York where 'skyscrapers stand at the intersection between grid and greed', through the deconstructivist architectural culture of Los Angeles, to the work and ideas of architects, developers and critics such as Alvar Aalto, Norman Foster, Paul Goldberger, Michael Graves, Coop Himmelblau, Philip Johnson, Leon Krier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Rogers, Carlo Scarpa, James Stirling, Donald Trump, Tom Wolfe and Lebbeus Woods. Throughout Sorkin combines stinging polemic with a powerful call for a rebirth of architecture that is visionary and experimental--a recuperated 'dreamy science'

Author : Aaron Betsky
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violated Perfection written by Aaron Betsky and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overzicht van het werk van hedendaagse architecten.

Author : Deborah K. Dietsch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0764553968
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture For Dummies written by Deborah K. Dietsch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-06-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Just the essential information for readers on the go who want to understand architecture. * Covers the highlights of architectural history, from the Great Pyramids to Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. * Explains how to look at a building and appreciate it. Explains when a building's a building and when it's art. * Part of Tens includes: Ten Great Architectural Masterpieces, Ten Biggest Architectural and Engineering Failures, Ten of the Most Interesting Architects Working Today-and more.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1798 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offramp written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georg Friedrich Meier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474229328
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason written by Georg Friedrich Meier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1752, Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason [Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre] was written as a textbook and widely adopted by many 18th-century German instructors, but most notably by Immanuel Kant. For forty years Kant used the Excerpts as the basis of his lectures on logic making extensive notes on his copy of the text. More than a text on formal logic, Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason covers epistemology and the elements of thought and language Meier believed made human understanding possible. Working across the two dominant intellectual forces in modern philosophy, the rationalist and the empiricist traditions, Meier's work was also instrumental to the introduction of English philosophy into Germany; he was among the first German philosophers to study John Locke's philosophy in depth. This complete English translation of Meier's influential textbook is introduced by Riccardo Pozzo and enhanced by a glossary and a concordance correlating Meier's arguments to Kant's logic lectures, the related Reflexionen and the Jäsche Logic of 1800 - the text considered of fundamental importance to Kant's philosophy. For scholars of Kant, Locke and the German Enlightenment, this valuable translation and its accompanying material presents the richest source of information available on Meier and his 18th-century work.

Author : Paul Goldberger
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307701530
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Art written by Paul Goldberger and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building art' shows the full range of Gehry’s work, from early houses constructed of plywood and chain-link fencing to lamps made in the shape of fish to the triumphant success of such late projects as the spectacular art museum of glass in Paris. It tells the story behind Gehry’s own house, which upset his neighbors and excited the world with its mix of the traditional and the extraordinary, and recounts how Gehry came to design the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, his remarkable structure of swirling titanium that changed a declining city into a destination spot. Building Art also explains Gehry’s sixteen-year quest to complete Walt Disney Concert Hall, the beautiful, acoustically brilliant home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.0.