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From Idea to Building
Both for architects and for general readers concerned with the effect of the built environment, explores how the design process influences the architectural outcome of a building, and how it fits into the overall artistic and technological state of the society. Draws on recent work in the philosophy of architecture and on case studies, many of them Brawne's own projects. Highly illustrated. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Post-war Architecture between Italy and the UK
Italy and the UK experienced a radical re-organisation of urban space following the devastation of many towns and cities in the Second World War. The need to rebuild led to an intellectual and cultural exchange between a wave of talented architects, urbanists and architectural historians in the two countries. Post-war Architecture Between Italy and the UK studies this exchange, exploring how the connections and mutual influences contributed to the formation of a distinctive stance towards Internationalism, notwithstanding the countries’ contrasting geographic and climatic conditions, levels of economic and industrial development, and social structures. Topics discussed in the volume includ...
Library Builders
This beautifully illustrated book surveys the art of contemporary library design from around the globe.
Arup Associates
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Imagining the Future of the Museum of Modern Art
Edited by John Elderfield. Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry.
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins – those philosophical ideas that lay behind modernism and its aftermath. By analyzing in straightforward and jargon-free language the genesis of modernism and the complex reactions to it, the book clarifies a continuing debate. It has been specifically written to connect issues of theory, history and contemporary practice and to allow students to make these connections easily. This is a history of twentieth-century architecture, written with close critical attention to the theories that lie behind the works described. Importantly, unlike other historical...
Suspending Modernity: The Architecture of Franco Albini
Franco Albini’s works of architecture and design, produced between 1930 and 1977, have enjoyed a recent revival but to date have received only sporadic scholarly attention from historians and critics of the Modern Movement. A chorus of Italian voices has sung his praises, none more eloquently than his protégé, Renzo Piano. Kay Bea Jones’ illuminating study of selected works by Studio Albini will reintroduce his contributions to one of the most productive periods in Italian design. Albini emerged from the ideology of Rationalism to produce some of Italy’s most coherent and poetic examples of modern design. He collaborated for over 25 years with Franca Helg and at a time when professio...
Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism
The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion Shrine examines this crossroads of modernism and the archetypal, and critiques its buildings and theory. The book centers on one particularly important and omnipresent type, the pavilion - a type which was the basis of major work by Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Minoru Yamasaki, and othe...
Happold
This illustrated study explores the life and work of Sir Edmund (Ted) Happold. It acknowledges the role he played during a professional life spanning some 30 years, and examines the relationship between engineering, architecture and design.
Architecture for the Books
This book takes a look at the architectural design of library. Forty nine libraries are targeted, and includes plans of each library.
