Design in America
Design in America

Author: Robert Judson Clark

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0810908018

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This exhibition catalog documents the emergence of modern American design in the second quarter of the 20th century. Cranbrook was one of the few institutions in the United States that offered instruction in design during the 1920s and 30s and its influence on architecture, interior design, art and crafts after World War II was crucial and extensive. The exhibition includes over 200 objects and photo-panels and surveys the history of the Cranbrook facility, as well as the achievements of the teachers and students. Presenting the history of the Cranbrook community, it covers Eliel Saarinen's contribution to architecture and urban design, interior design and furniture, metalwork and bookbinding, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and painting. ISBN 0-89558-097-7 (pbk.); ISBN 0-87099-341-0 (pbk.) : $45.00 (For use only in the library).

Cranbrook Art Museum
Cranbrook Art Museum

Author: Cranbrook Academy of Art. Museum

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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"Cranbrook Art Museum: 100 treasures documents the permanent collection of Cranbrook Art Museum and an exhibition presented at Cranbrook Art Museum December 13, 2003, through March 28, 2004. The exhibition launched the year-long centennial celebration of Cranbrook Educational Community, which was conceived when George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth purchased land in Bloomfield Hills on January 18, 1904"--Title page verso.

Cranbrook
Cranbrook

Author: Kathryn Bishop Eckert

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781568982571

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The newest titles in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on an insider's tour of the University of Washington in Seattle, Rice University in Houston, and Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks at three of America's finest campuses, revealing the stories behind the historic and contemporary buildings, gardens, and works of public art. The community of Cranbrook, designed by Eliel Saarinen, combines modernism with arts-and-crafts and art deco impulses; more recently, Steven Holl, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and Rafael Moneo have made contributions to Cranbrook's campus.

Genius Loci
Genius Loci

Author: Balthazar Korab

Publisher: Cranbrook Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0963649264

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Cranbrook is an estate that became a set of schools and cultural institutions. This work shows readers that Cranbrook is an assemblage of great architecture in which the whole is even more than the sum of the parts. It aims to capture not only the beauty and delight in the buildings and public art of Cranbrook but the meaning of the place itself.

Cranbrook Architecture
Cranbrook Architecture

Author: Gretchen Wilkins

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2023-05-08

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1119834422

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Guest-edited by Gretchen Wilkins The renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Michigan, has been described as the epicentre of American Modernism. When it opened in 1932 it combined a stunning Eliel Saarinen-designed campus with a radically open educational philosophy to attract and produce some of the most influential artists, designers and architects in US history, including Charles and Ray Eames, Fumihiko Maki, Florence Knoll and Edmund Bacon. Often compared to other experimental schools such as the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Taliesin, Cranbrook’s sustained purpose has been advancing a wide, interdisciplinary latitude and self-directed design research to expand and diversify its approaches to architectural practice. There is a deep and persistent idea that open and experimental acts of making should define pedagogy, and by extension that education should shape practice, not the other way around. Cranbrook’s rigorous defiance of dogma and loose grip on the disciplines enables an educational model that combines the practices of art, design, making and urbanism. In this issue, alumni, faculty and scholars reflect on Cranbrook’s model in light of contemporary and challenging questions in architectural education, practice and the profession. Contributors: Kevin Adkisson, Emily Baker, Peggy Deamer, Pia Ednie-Brown, Ronit Eisenbach, Dan Hoffman, Yu-Chih Hsiao, Peter Lynch, Bill Massie, Hani Rashid, Jesse Reiser, Lois Weinthal, and Tod Williams. Featured architects: Asymptote Architecture, Building Culture PLA, Reiser+Umemoto (RUR), Studio Libeskind, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien.