American Building Art
Author | : Carl W. Condit |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Building |
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Author | : Carl W. Condit |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Building |
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Total Pages | : 371 |
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Author | : Carl W. Condit |
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Author | : Carl W. Condit |
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Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780758168405 |
Author | : Hermann Muthesius |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1994-12-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0892362820 |
Style-Architecture and Building-Art is Hermann Muthesius’s classic criticism of nineteenth century architecture. Now published for the first time in English, this pivotal text represents the first serious effort by Muthesius to define the elements of early modernist architecture according to notions of realism and simplicity. Although Muthesius is known best in Anglo-American architectural literature for his studies of the English house, his scholarship constituted a wide-ranging modernist polemic emanating from the German realist movement of the late 1890s. Notions that were introduced in Style-Architecture and Building-Art became common in later modernist historiography: disdain for the nineteenth century’s artistic eclecticism and lack of originality; appreciation of the material and industrial aspects of building technology, and, above all, a simpler approach to design. Muthesius' critique of stylistic architecture is not only linked to the development of the Deutsche Werkbund movement, but also can be viewed more broadly as a cornerstone of the modern movement. In his introduction, Standford Anderson situates Muthesius and his work in turn-of-the-century architectural discourse and analyzes his vision of a new form of architecture. Anderson also discusses the rationale underlying the call for cultural renewal, the role of English architectural models in Muthesius’s thought, critical differences between the first and second editions of Style-Architecture and Building-Art, the influence of the Jugendstil and Art Nouveau movements on Muthesius and, in turn, the influence of Muthesius on the Deutsche Werkbund movement.
Author | : Carl W. Condit |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Building |
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Author | : Paul Andersen |
Publisher | : Park Publishing (WI) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-23 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : 9783038601951 |
From its origins in the Midwest in the early nineteenth century, the technique of light timber framing-also known at the time as "Chicago construction"-quickly came to underwrite the territorial and ideological expansion of the United States. Softwood construction was inherently practical, as its materials were readily available and required little skill to assemble. The result was a built environment that erased typological and class distinctions: no amount of money can buy you a better 2 x 4. This fundamental sameness paradoxically underlies the American culture of individuality, unifying all superficial differences. It has been both a cause and effect of the country's high regard for novelty, in contrast with the stability that is often assumed to be essential to architecture. American Framing is a visual and textual exploration of the social, environmental, and architectural conditions and consequences of this ubiquitous form of construction. For architecture, it offers a story of an American project that is bored with tradition, eager to choose economy over technical skill, and accepting of a relaxed idea of craft in the pursuit of something useful and new-the forming of an architecture that enables architecture.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Abandoned buildings |
ISBN | : 9781913620417 |
Drawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional ?one-way road trip? across the United States, weaving north and south across the Mason-Dixon line while tacking west. In A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture, Jeffrey Ladd uses the HABS archive as a surrogate in order to manifest a portrait of his former country at a moment when its democracy seems imperiled.00Inspired equally by the social documentary work of Walker Evans and the architectural interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark and others, Ladd embraces the muteness of photographs to create an ambiguous space where the sculptural, political, forensic, and fictional coalesce within a landscape of both beauty and fragility. What initially appears to be a single voice is revealed to belong to dozens of makers; what seems a description of the distant past is revealed to be closer to the present than expected. A Field Measure Survey sheds light not only on this remarkable archive but on the proliferate meanings that can be shaped from its images.
Author | : Michael J Lewis |
Publisher | : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2006-06-06 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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"A wide-ranging and inclusive history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work, this book: discusses the key artists, architects, art works, and buildings across the centuries; defines the characteristics of different periods and highlights the forms, techniques, and styles that are distinctively American; integrates discussions of works of visual art and buildings, revealing their shared social and aesthetic concerns; charts the ways in which American artists and architects both adopted and diverged from earlier European models to create their own language; and illustrates paintings, sculpture, photography, and new-media art plus dozens of building types, from colonial houses and churches to modernist and postmodernist museums, stations, and skyscrapers."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Carl W. Condit |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Building |
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