Sverre Fehn

Sverre Fehn
Author: Christian Norberg-Schulz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1997
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This comprehensive monograph presents fifty projects from throughout the four decades of Fehn's career. Featured are such important works as the Archbishopric Museum of Hamar, the Glacier Museum in Fjaerland, and the Aukrust Museum in Alvdal, all in Norway. Also included are a number of houses and several competition projects, both built and unbuilt. Each of the works in this volume is illustrated with extensive photography, presentation drawings, and Fehn's signature sketches. Complementing the architectural projects are essays by Francesco Dal Co, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and Gennaro Postiglione, which present an analytic portrait of the architect's career, and an anthology of writings by Fehn and critics.

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

German Architecture for a Mass Audience
Author: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2002-09-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134689608

This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernist ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin.

The Remembrance of Things Past

The Remembrance of Things Past
Author: Matthew Rampley
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783447042994

The art historian Aby M. Warburg and the philosopher Walter Benjamin are widely respected as two of the most significant cultural theorists of the twentieth century. Their common interests in historiography, the function of collective memory, and the relation of modern society to earlier stages of human social existence, were important examples of the attempt to articulate, analyse and represent the experience of modernity. Drawing on a variety of discourses from aesthetics, art history, anthropology and psychology, they presented an account of modernity and human development that represented an important counter to the optimistic belief in progress prevalent amongst their contemporaries. Rarely, however, have the connections between these two thinkers been explored in depth. This volume consists of an exploration of the intellectual relation between them, considering their varying responses to the question of the meaning of modernity, and above all their common legacy for the present.

The Architecture of Walter Burley Griffin

The Architecture of Walter Burley Griffin
Author: Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher: South Melbourne : Macmillan of Australia
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1977
Genre: Architects
ISBN:

Canberra 1913-1920 - Residential: America & Australia - Newman College - Castlecrag - Commercial and public - Incinerators - India - Naturalist in architecture.

Anyplace

Anyplace
Author: Cynthia C. Davidson
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1995
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Anyplace brings together a number of the world's leading architects, philosophers, artists, historians, critics and others in a volume that represents current thinking on the place of architecture in relationship to thought, politics, art, science and the developing technological realm of cyberspace.

Sverre Fehn

Sverre Fehn
Author: Per Olaf Fjeld
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1580932177

As recipient of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize—the profession’s highest honor—Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has had an impact not only in his home country but around the globe. His projects, often described as being instilled with a human quality, include the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition and the Nordic Pavilion at the 1962 Venice Biennale, the Hamar Bispegaard Museum in Hamar, the Glacier Museum in Fjaerland Fjord, and the Aukrust Museum in Alvdal. Fehn has been strongly influenced by Scandinavia’s breathtaking landscape and light conditions. His design sensibility is characterized by a great respect for material and construction. As a professor of long standing at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, he has distilled his complex creative process, passing his thoughts and philosophies to new generations of architects. This study of Fehn’s work provides an intimate glimpse into the world of this great postwar modernist. Author Per Olaf Fjeld presents both biography and perceptive critique as he covers all of Fehn’s major projects, built and unbuilt, from world-renowned museums to lesser-known houses. Never-before-published comments by Fehn from lectures, interviews, and conversations with students as well as dynamic sketches are featured, opening a window into the mind of this poetic and personal architect.

Sverre Fehn

Sverre Fehn
Author: Per Olaf Fjeld
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1983
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

As recipient of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize--the profession's highest honor--Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has had an impact not only in his home country but around the globe. His projects, often described as being instilled with a human quality, include the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition and the Nordic Pavilion at the 1962 Venice Biennale, the Hamar Bispegaard Museum in Hamar, the Glacier Museum in Fjaerland Fjord, and the Aukrust Museum in Alvdal. Fehn has been strongly influenced by Scandinavia's breathtaking landscape and light conditions. His design sensibility is characterized by a great respect for material and construction. As a professor of long standing at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, he has distilled his complex creative process, passing his thoughts and philosophies to new generations of architects. This study of Fehn's work provides an intimate glimpse into the world of this great postwar modernist. Author Per Olaf Fjeld presents both biography and perceptive critique as he covers all of Fehn's major projects, built and unbuilt, from world-renowned museums to lesser-known houses. Never-before-published comments by Fehn from lectures, interviews, and conversations with students as well as dynamic sketches are featured, opening a window into the mind of this poetic and personal architect.

God's Own Junkyard

God's Own Junkyard
Author: Peter Blake
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1964
Genre: Billboards
ISBN:

Contains many black and white photos of the desecration of the U.S. landscape in the late 50's/early 60's.

Architectural Guide Venice

Architectural Guide Venice
Author: Clemens F. Kusch
Publisher: Dom Pub
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2014
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783869223629

Venice has developed into a Mecca for international architects in the last few decades. The elite of contemporary architecture gather to celebrate the most prestigious architecture exhibition of our time at the Biennale in the shadows of St. Mark's Place, the Rialto Bridge and the Doge's Palace. It is all the more amazing that there is no current guide which covers the modern architecture of the largest open-air-museum in the world. This Architectural Guide is a ticket to a journey of discovery off the beaten tourist path through Venice after 1950. The boat trips and walks in the guide lead to new residential complexes and converted harbour sheds, to works by Carlo Scarpa, Tadao Ando and David Chipperfield. This very practical travel guide also examines controversial new projects like the flood control barriers or spectacular conversions like that of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi by Rem Koolhaas. In addition to never realised designs by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, the authors present all the Biennale pavilions from the last six decades.

Modern Norwegian Architecture

Modern Norwegian Architecture
Author: Christian Norberg-Schulz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1986
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Beginning with the first decade of the 20th century, Professor Norberg-Schulz traces the development of modern Norwegian architecture in relation to general trends such as the International Style and the Postmodernism of the 1980s. The book includes a short historical introduction and provides a reliable account of this largely unexplored field.