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Author | : Tom Wolfe |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2009-11-24 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 142992425X |
After critiquing—and infuriating—the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our Haus. In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass and steel box designed buildings that have influenced—and infected—America’s cities.
Author | : Fiona MacCarthy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674737857 |
Fiona MacCarthy challenges the image of Walter Gropius as a doctrinaire architectural rationalist, bringing out the vision and courage that carried him through a politically hostile age. Approaching the Bauhaus founder from all angles, she offers a poignant personal story, one that reexamines the urges that drove Euro-American modernism as a whole.
Author | : Frances Ambler |
Publisher | : Ilex Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1781576580 |
Now 100 years old, the Bauhaus still looks just as fresh today as it did when it began. It was a place to experiment and embrace a new creative freedom. Thanks to this philosophy, the Bauhaus still shapes the world around us. Trace The Story of the Bauhaus through the 100 personalities, designs, ideas and events that shaped this monumental movement. Learn about leaders Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Anni Albers and Wassily Kandinsky; witness groundbreaking events and wild parties that would revolutionise contemporary design; and discover a range of innovative ideas and new ways of thinking.
Author | : Johannes Rinkenburger |
Publisher | : Niggli Verlag |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783721209921 |
An analytical and practical adaptation of the Bauhaus books showing amazing possibilities for graphic designers today.
Author | : James Stevens Curl |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0191068160 |
In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.
Author | : Tom Wolfe |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1988-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1429961228 |
"When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in these rollicking essays in Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine -- and even provided the 1970s with its name: "The Me Decade."
Author | : Tom Wolfe |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2008-10-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1429961201 |
"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Author | : Deyan Sudjic |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0718199472 |
This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's not an autobiography, though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary culture. It's an essential tool kit for understanding the modern world. It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake; the creation of national identities; the mania to collect. It's also about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand Theft Auto V; digital ornament and why we value imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics and art.
Author | : Peder Anker |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0807136506 |
Debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly a century. From Bauhaus to Eco-House examines key moments of inspiration and exchange between designers and ecologists from the Bauhaus projects of the interwar period to the eco-arks of the late 1980s. From Bauhaus to Eco-House provides new insight into a critical period in the evolution of environmental awareness and design.
Author | : Walter Gropius |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1965-03-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262570060 |
One of the most important books on the modernist movement in architecture, written by a founder of the Bauhaus school. One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and The Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the work of the now famous Bauhaus and, with splendid clarity, calls for a new artist and architect educated to new materials and techniques and directly confronting the requirements of the age.