Modern Housing Prototypes

Modern Housing Prototypes
Author: Roger Sherwood
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1978
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780674579422

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Here are 32 notable examples of multi-family housing from many countries, selected for their importance as prototypes. Designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, the buildings are illustrated with photographs, site plans, floor plans, elevations, and striking axonometric drawings.

J.J.P. Oud and the International Style

J.J.P. Oud and the International Style
Author: Donald Langmead
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1999-01-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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J.J.P. Oud was a famed modern architect; his European contemporaries are Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. In Leiden in 1917, Oud, with the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg and the expatriate Hungarian Vilmos Huszár, and fellow Hollanders Jan Wils and Bart van der Leck formed a collaboration between artists and architects a movement they called De Stijl. The loose knit group slowly disintegrated, but in terms of architectural style the movement sought a unity between art and society that flirted with Constructivism, developed theories of Neoplasticism, and what Oud called Cubism. Although these intellectualized theories seldom resulted in architectural realities, the realized projects were spectacular and they include Oud's director's hut at the Oud-Mathenesse housing development, 1923, and the facade of the Café De Unie, Rotterdam, 1925. This annotated bibliography documents not only the literature on Oud but also Oud's own writings. A biographical essay, this book examines the place afforded Oud in the international literature of architecture and traces his career which spanned fifty-seven years. Architectural students and scholars will benefit from this guide to the major archives, minor collections, and listing of Oud's projects and the books in his own professional library. Bibliographic entries are alphabetically arranged, by books and monographs and by journals, within chronological divisions. Entries are cross-referenced to a works list and index.

Chairs

Chairs
Author: Otakar Máčel
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2008
Genre: Chair design
ISBN: 9064506191

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

The Minimum Dwelling

The Minimum Dwelling
Author: Karel Teige
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262201360

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Teige envisioned the minimum dwelling not as a reduced version of a bourgeois apartment or rural cottage, but as a wholly new dwelling type built with the cooperation of architects, sociologists, economists, health officials, physicians, social workers, politicians, and trade unionists.".

History of Modern Design

History of Modern Design
Author: David Raizman
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2003
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781856693486

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An exploration of the parallel development of product and graphic design from the 18th century to the 21st. The effects of mass production and consumption, man-made industrial materials and extended lines of communication are also discussed.

Writings on Wright

Writings on Wright
Author: Harold Allen Brooks
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1981
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262520867

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These writings cover Wright's personality and life style, Wright's clients and his work, the discovery of Wright by Europeans, and more recent evaluations by Lewis Mumford and Reyner Banham, among others.

J.J.P. Oud, by K. Wiekart

J.J.P. Oud, by K. Wiekart
Author: Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud
Publisher:
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The Experience of Modernism

The Experience of Modernism
Author: John R. Gold
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136743049

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Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1928-1953, the author provides a sympathetic understanding of the Modern Movement's architectural role in reshaping the fabric and structure of British metropolitan cities in the post-war period and traces the links between the experience of British modernists and the wider international modern movement.