Building the Post-war World

Building the Post-war World
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 041522179X
ISBN-13 : 9780415221795
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Building the Post-war World by : Nicholas Bullock

Building the Post-War World offers for the first time an overall account of Modern Architecture in the decade after the Second World War.

No more giants

No more giants
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781526143778
ISBN-13 : 1526143771
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis No more giants by : Jessica Kelly

Architecture is more than buildings and architects. It also involves photographers, writers, advertisers and broadcasters, as well as the people who finance and live in the buildings. Using the career of the critic J. M. Richards as a lens, this book takes a new perspective on modern architecture. Richards served as editor of The Architectural Review from 1937 to 1971, during which time he consistently argued that modernism was integrally linked to vernacular architecture, not through style but through the principle of being an anonymous expression of a time and public spirit. Exploring the continuities in Richards’s ideas throughout his career disrupts the existing canon of architectural history, which has focused on abrupt changes linked to individual ‘pioneers’, encouraging us to think again about who is studied in architectural history and how they are researched.

The Anxious City

The Anxious City
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 0415279267
ISBN-13 : 9780415279260
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Anxious City by : Richard J. Williams

A unique and provocative history of the development of the idea of the city in recent years. Key public spaces and buildings in England, Europe and the USA are discussed in relation to their socio-political context.

Toward an Architecture

Toward an Architecture
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 0892368993
ISBN-13 : 9780892368990
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Toward an Architecture by : Le Corbusier

Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg

Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9780271065212
ISBN-13 : 0271065214
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg by : Nicholas Adams

In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper campaign led by one of the most noted editors of the day, Torgny Segerstedt. Famous for his determined opposition to National Socialism, he also took a principled stand against the undermining of urban tradition in Gothenburg. Gothenburg’s problems with modern public architecture, though clamorous and publicized throughout Sweden, were by no means unique. In Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg, Nicholas Adams places Asplund’s building in the wider context of public architecture between the wars, setting the originality and sensitivity of Asplund’s conception against the political and architectural struggles of the 1930s. Today, looking at the building in the broadest of contexts, we can appreciate the richness of this exquisite work of architecture. This book recaptures the complex magic of its creation and the fascinating controversy of its completed form.

Landscape Modernism Renounced

Landscape Modernism Renounced
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9780415497206
ISBN-13 : 0415497205
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscape Modernism Renounced by : David Jacques

Before the Second World War, Christopher Tunnard was a landscape architect who championed the cause of Modernism. After the war however, he became alarmed by the destructive forces of post-war reconstruction and, between the 1950s and the 1970s, became a a vociferous advocate for civic preservation. and conservation.

Architecture and the Welfare State

Architecture and the Welfare State
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9781317661900
ISBN-13 : 1317661907
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Architecture and the Welfare State by : Mark Swenarton

In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres – involved not just construction but a new approach to architectural design, in which the welfare objectives of these state-funded programmes were delineated and debated. The impact on architects and architectural design was profound and far-reaching, with welfare state projects moving centre-stage in architectural discourse not just in Europe but worldwide. This is the first book to explore the architecture of the welfare state in Western Europe from an international perspective. With chapters covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, the book explores the complex role played by architecture in the formation and development of the welfare state in both theory and practice. Themes include: the role of the built environment in the welfare state as a political project the colonial dimension of European welfare state architecture and its ‘export’ to Africa and Asia the role of welfare state projects in promoting consumer culture and economic growth the picture of the collective produced by welfare state architecture the role of architectural innovation in the welfare state the role of the architect, as opposed to construction companies and others, in determining what was built the relationship between architectural and social theory the role of internal institutional critique and the counterculture. Contributors include: Tom Avermaete, Eve Blau, Nicholas Bullock, Miles Glendinning, Janina Gosseye, Hilde Heynen, Caroline Maniaque-Benton, Helena Mattsson, Luca Molinari, Simon Pepper, Michelle Provoost, Lukasz Stanek, Mark Swenarton, Florian Urban and Dirk van den Heuvel.

After the Victorians

After the Victorians
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9781134911790
ISBN-13 : 1134911793
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis After the Victorians by : Susan Pedersen

Cultural and intellectual history: interdisciplinary: applicable to a wide range of fields Contains ten mini-biographies of both well-known and unusual figures Readable, lively and will appeal to readers of literary and political biography as well as to academic specialists

Street Furniture Design

Street Furniture Design
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781474245555
ISBN-13 : 1474245552
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Street Furniture Design by : Eleanor Herring

Eleanor Herring's unique study of street furniture in post-war Britain considers how objects which are now familiar parts of our urban environment were designed to populate public spaces. Herring explores the design of lampposts, post boxes, parking meters, and signage in the context of a government backed by various bodies keen to propagate 'good' modern design, in a Britain whose towns and cities had been laid waste by bombing and the privations of war. She also considers the innate conservatism of local communities and councils, wary of a standardised street design imposed from above. She traces how the design of street furniture became the site of a fierce struggle which exposed deep-seated anxieties about class, taste and power. Herring's original research draws on archival material and on interviews with leading figures in urban design, including graphic designer Margaret Calvert and industrial designer Kenneth Grange.

Visual Planning and the Picturesque

Visual Planning and the Picturesque
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781606060018
ISBN-13 : 1606060015
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Visual Planning and the Picturesque by : Nikolaus Pevsner

A previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner, much of which was published as journal articles in the Architectural Review in the 1940s and 1950s during Pevsner's term as editor.