The Victory of the New Building Style

The Victory of the New Building Style

Author: Walter Curt Behrendt

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780892365630

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This book-Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building- presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Now available in English for the first time, this incisive treatise boldly advocates international modernism to the general public.


Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century

Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century

Author: Hilary French

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008-10-28

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780393732467

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A collection of housing designs built over the last hundred years, illustrating innovative approaches. Fourth in the Key series, with newly drawn plans suitable for study in architecture schools, this volume will appeal to students of urban design and planning as well as architecture. Key developments covered include early apartment blocks, the projects of European modernism, high-rise and large-scale schemes, and postmodernism. Exterior and interior photographs show materials, massing, and context. 150 color photographs, 500 line drawings.


Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart

Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart

Author: Jürgen Joedicke

Publisher: Karl Kramer Verlag GmbH Company

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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Describes the historical circumstances that led to the realization of the Weissenhofsiedlung, the course of construction and the significance of the development for modern architecture. In the second part of the book the individual buildings are presented with short descriptive texts, photos and plans.


Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture

Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture

Author: R. Stephen Sennott

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 9781579584351

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For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages and more, visit the Encyclope dia of 20th Century Architecture website. Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the twentieth century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across traditional geographic and cultural boundaries.


The Prefabricated Home

The Prefabricated Home

Author: Colin Davies

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2005-06-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781861892430

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An account of prefabricated architecture around the world, from McDonalds drive-through restaurants to Ikea's flat-pack house.


The Architectural Detail

The Architectural Detail

Author: Edward R. Ford

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2012-08-10

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1616891602

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The Architectural Detail is author Edward R. Ford's life's work, and this may be his most important book to date. Ford walks the reader through five widely accepted (and wildly different) definitions of detail, in an attempt to find, once and for all, the quintessential definition of detail in architecture.


Chairs

Chairs

Author: Otakar Máčel

Publisher: 010 Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9064506191

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"Institute of History of Art, Architecture & Urbanism, Delft University of Technology--Faculty of Architecture"--P. facing t.p.


Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

Author: Stanislaus von Moos

Publisher: 010 Publishers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9064506426

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Originally published in Germany in 1968, this first comprehensive and critical survey of Le Corbusier's life and work soon became the standard text on the architect and polymath. French, Spanish, English, Japanese and Korean editions followed, but the book has now been out of print for almost two decades. In the meantime, Le Corbusier's archives in Paris have become available for research, resulting in an avalanche of scholarship. Von Moos' critical take and the basic criteria by which the subject is organized and historicized remain surprisingly pertinent in the context of this recent jungle of Corbusier studies. This new, completely revised edition is based on the 1979 version published in English by the MIT Press but offers a substantially updated body of illustrations. Each of the seven chapters is supplemented by a critical survey of recent scholarship on the respective issues. An updated edition of this acclaimed book, an essential read for students of architecture and architectural history.


ABC

ABC

Author: Sima Ingberman

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780262090315

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Constructivism is widely thought of as a Russian phenomenon, but as Sima Ingberman shows in this first comprehensive study of the architectural group ABC, it was an influential international movement. Ingberman brings to light a rich array of historical documentation, charting for the first time Lissitzky's particular alliance with ABC and tracing ABC's influences and developments, formal, material, constructional, and ideological.