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This tribute contains 18 papers on Henry-Russell Hitchcock and his lasting influence on architects practicing during the last decades, as well as on the critics and historians who have been following and at times leading the architects. They are arranged chronologically in three main areas of Hitchcock's interest: "The Age of Romanticism -- Rationalism, Revivalism and Eclecticism 1740-1900"; "American Architecture to 1900: Romanticism and Reintegration"; and "Twentieth Century Architecture -- The New Tradition and the New Pioneers."
The most influential work of architectural criticism and history of the twentieth century, now available in a handsomely designed new edition.
"Architecture : nineteenth and twentieth centuries" by Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
This work sets out to describe the aesthetic qualities intrinsic to the work of such architects as Le Corbusier, Oud, Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. The authors observed the distinguishing features that made possible a definition of a new style: emphasis on volume as opposed to mass; regularity as opposed to symmetry; and dependence on the intrinsic elegance of materials as opposed to applied decoration.
The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts. Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history—of buildings to books—has been one of the most important themes in debates about the course of modern architecture. Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our cu...
The Description for this book, German Renaissance Architecture, will be forthcoming.
Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attention of several prominent historians, whose work here is accompanied by over 250 illustrations and photographs. For its size, the city of Buffalo, New York, possesses a remarkable number and variety of architectural masterpieces from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Adler and Sullivan's Prudential building, H. H. Richardson's massive Buffalo State Hospital, Richard Upjohn's Sr. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, five prairie houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, and building by Daniel Burnham, Albert Kahn, and the firms of McKim, Mead, and White, and Lockwood, Green and Company, among others. These structures by pro...
Re-creation of exhibition prepared by Dr. Henry-Russell Hitchcock in March 1934, as part of the inauguration of the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts.
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the influence of British Gothic novels and historical romances on American art and architecture in the Romantic era.