Basel: Birkhäuser, 2014. — 278 p. — ISBN 978-3-7643-5500-5. Aalto was a m ember of the generation which, alter the First World War, undertook to create a new and better world . At the same time, this generationwas presented with the task of contributing to the development of its own country, Finland, after the declaration of independence. These two events determined the course...
Basel: Birkhäuser, 2014. — 250 p. — ISBN 978-3-7643-5501-2. The second volume (1963- 1970) Alvar simply regarded as his duty to support, which he did without reserve. He regarded the 'Synoptic Volume' published by the GTA at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich as more an employment-book than as a proper publication. He himself made the proposal for this volume.
Basel: Birkhäuser, 2014. — 240 p. — ISBN 978-3-7643-5502-9. The third volume now being presented, which completes the publication of Aalto's oeuvre, had unfortunately to be prepared without his presence. The texts accompanying the individual constructions and projects stem in part from texts prepared by Aalto for competitions, in part from earlier publications in technical...
Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1986. — 176 p. Several years ago, when the centennial of Mies's birth seemed far away, some people in Chicago and New York began to think about the event and how best to honor the memory of a great architect and teacher. It was soon agreed that the two important repositories of Mies's legacy, the Department of Architecture, Illinois...
Gustavo Gili, 1996. — 152 p. In Mexico, as in other places and often in other times, the identification of a way of working, a style, a "correct" attitude with a tradition, as a stimulus to nationalist identification, has tended to channel creativity in the direction of the stereotype and the devalued imitation of the model being imitated, frustrating the expression of a rich...
Mcgill Queens University Press, 2012. — 227 p. — (Mcgill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History, Book 9). During periods of close collaboration, championed by figures like John Ruskin and William Morris, architecture and craft were referred to as "the allied arts." By the mid-twentieth century, however, it was more common for the two disciplines to be...
Birkhäuser, 2016. — 144 p. Norwegian architecture has been in the international spotlight in recent years. Following the success of Made in Norway, this second volume presents a selection of 40 new examples of the best contemporary architecture Norway has to offer. These projects – large and small, rural and urban – are examples of how architects in Norway have reacted to the...
Birkhäuser, 2016. — 144 p. Norwegian architecture has been in the international spotlight in recent years. Following the success of Made in Norway, this second volume presents a selection of 40 new examples of the best contemporary architecture Norway has to offer. These projects – large and small, rural and urban – are examples of how architects in Norway have reacted to the...
Taschen, 1994. — 164 p. After the postmodernist and deconstructivist trends of the 1970s and 1980s, contemporary architecture seems to want to connect with classical modernism. This illustrated volume presents the dominant works of contemporary European architects as well as the projects of an avant-garde that will most certainly also have a decisive influence on the...
JOVIS, 2022. — 304 p. — ISBN-10 3868597239 / ISBN-13 978-3868597233. (Bilingual Edition: English / Arabic) Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945–1973 is the result of a fascinating investigation by international experts into the influences of modernist architecture in the Arab world. Nine case studies provide the foundation for a thorough exploration of the...
LAPAS, 2018. — 292 p. — ISBN-10 609819808X; ISBN-13 978-6098198089. After Kaunas suddenly became Lithuania’s provisional capital in 1919, the city’s subsequent transformation was nothing short of miraculous. Kaunas’ identity changed radically: in less than twenty years, its residents transformed the city into a modern, elegant and European capital. Architecture played a...
Ralf Daab, 2005. — 243 p. Shanghai is the fastest growing city at the moment and will be one of the most important metropolitan cities in the world. The diversity of Western and Oriental influences can be seen on its streets, in the silhouettes of its buildings and in their interiors, where tradition, design and contemporary tends mingle to create a distinctive language. In a...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 336 p. Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the development of modern architecture. Focusing on the period surrounding World War II—before fossil-fuel...
München: Albert Langen Verlag, 1925. — 106 S. Die Internationale Architektur ist ein Bilderbuch moderner Baukunst. Es will in knapper Form Uberblick uber das Schaffen fuhrender moderner Architekten der Kulturlander geben und mit der heutigen architektonischen Gestaltentwicklung vertraut machen.
Dunod, 1980. — 360 p. En juin 1931, lors de la clôture de la Bauausstellung de Berlin, Ernst May prononce devant le Sénat de la ville une conférence sur La construction des villes en URSS, où il travaille depuis 1930, et fait part de l'intention des CIAM d'organiser leur IVe congrès en Union soviétique. De fait, la Russie apparaît alors comme le terrain le plus favorable pour...
Dunod, 1987. — 194 p. Un modèle qui opposerait un répertoire moderne à un répertoire traditionnel, ou simplement un répertoire à un autre, ne saurait être pris en considération par un marché qui, pour faire face aux sollicitations de la demande, offre simultanément ou successivement tous les répertoires possibles. Cette multiplicité de choix rend inévitable l'éclectisme. Elle...
The MIT Press, 1977. — 206 p. A serious and original study of the beginnings and development of modernism in which the pictorial aspects are designed to aid in the communication of the author's closely reasoned formulations. Let it be said at once that the format of this work is richly handsome: it is a two-volume boxed set comprising 844 pages and well over 1,000 high-quality...
The MIT Press, 1977. — 252 p. A serious and original study of the beginnings and development of modernism in which the pictorial aspects are designed to aid in the communication of the author's closely reasoned formulations. Let it be said at once that the format of this work is richly handsome: it is a two-volume boxed set comprising 844 pages and well over 1,000 high-quality...
Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1975. — 294 p. Provides the evidence for an understanding of the intellectual climate from which the architecture and design of today have spring with writings of such infludential authors as Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos, Henry Van de Velde, Hermann Muthesius, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Bruno Taut and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Thames & Hudson, 1998. — 171 p.
Zaha Hadid is the most famous woman architect in the world, and the first to win the Pritzker Prize. Having achieved international recognition through her striking images and design, the Iraqi-born, London-based architect is now of the profession's most ought-after figures. Her buildings are now appearing across the globe, from Europe to the...
The MIT Press, 1999. — 540 р. In this book, Eve Blau looks at how ideological conflict shaped the buildings of Red Vienna―in terms of their program, spatial conception, language, and use―as well as how political meaning itself is manifested in architecture. In 1919 the Social Democrat city council of Vienna initiated a radical program of reforms designed to reshape the city's...
Edited by Anselm Wagner. — Berlin: jovis Verlag GmbH, 2015. — 367 p.: ill. — ISBN 978-3-86859-891-9. Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year 2000. This book, which builds on six canonical projects, traces the discursive practice behind the design methods used by...
Rizzoli, 1991. — 239 p. Shows and describes architectural designs for Barcelona's Olympic village, sports facilities, cultural facilities, parks, hotels, schools, and renovation projects.
Larousse, 2012. — 244 p. Un guide pour découvrir le patrimoine architectural d'hier à aujourd'huiCe livre donne des repères (grandes figures, courants, innovations, techniques, principales réalisations, lien avec le contexte général,.) sur la totalité de l'histoire de l'architecture dans le monde, depuis la première révolution industrielle jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Rizzoli, 1987. — 207 p. Examines the return to Classicism in architecture during the 1930s, compares designs by the dictatorships and democratic nations, and looks at the the use of materials in furniture and jewelry.
George Braziller, 1962. — 126 p. — (Makers of Contemporary Architecture). Contains over 100 illustrations, plans, drawings, and photographs, together with a selection from the writings of the architect, a selected bibliography, chronology, index, and notes to the text.
Reaktion Books, 2012. — 346 p. Turkey: Modern Architectures in History offers a journey through the iconic buildings of Turkey that begins with the end of World War I, when the new Turkish Republic was born out of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, includes its democratization in the midst of the Cold War’s competing ideologies, and concludes with the present day, in...
University of Washington Press, 2001. — 380 р. Introduction: Modernism on the Margins of Europe. First Moderns : The Legacy of Ottoman Revivalism. Inkilap Mimarisi: Architecture of Revolution. Aesthetics of Progress : Imagining an Industrial Nation. Yeni Mimari: The Making of a Modernist Profession. Living Modern: Cubic Houses and Apartments. Milli Mimari: Nationalizing the...
Metis Yayıncılık, 2012. — 372 s. Mimarlık tarihçisi Sibel Bozdoğan, 1908'deki Meşrutiyetin ilanından Kemalist tek parti iktidarının 1950'de sona erişini kadar modern Türk mimarisinin kültürel tarihini ve Avrupa modernizmiyle bağlantılarını anlatıyor. Resmi propaganda yayınların, mimarlık meslek dergilerini ve zamanın popüler yayınlarını esas alan Bozdoğan, geniş bir siyasi,...
Electa, 2009. — 358 p. Una casa è molto di più di una "macchina per abitare": ha una valenza emozionale ed è una delle espressioni più personali del nostro essere. È un luogo nel quale rifugiarci e isolarci oltre che uno spazio di vita quotidiana. È un edificio da modellare secondo il nostro stile di vita. Ma è anche, naturalmente, fonte di bellezza e di piacere, come...
Skira, 2008. — 208 p. Many of the architects responsible for modern-day Rome—such as Hadid, Fuksas, Baldeweg, and Meier—have reached international stature. While some might note the weakness of the residential sector in attracting architectural quality, it is hard to escape the growing attention paid to public spaces and infrastructures. This volume surveys Rome’s varied...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. — 231 р. Luigi Moretti is the first English-language monograph on the Italian architect (1907-1973) whose monumental works include the urban plan of the Foro Italico, the Piazza Imperiale, and Palazzo Civilta Italiana, all in Rome, and his renowned entry for the E.U.R. competition of 1937. His post-World War II works include Casa Girasole in...
Rizzoli, 1986. — 140 p. Shows and describes museums, apartment buildings, a railroad station, plaza, restoration project, house, theater, bank, factory, and school designed by modern Spanish architects.
Nobuko, 2008. — 200 p. El presente libro reúne una serie muy diversa de textos que se han dividido en tres grandes apartados temáticos. El primero es el dedicado a la arquitectura de los grandes maestros, y que insiste sobre todo en tres autores que siguen siendo claves de nuestro panorama y de nuestro quehacer, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe y Alvar Aalto, completados también...
Könemann, 2000. — 1004 p. Après une introduction retraçant les point forts de l'architecture dans les années 1990, Panorama de l'architecture contemporaine vous présente, par le biais de plus de 2000 photographies et schémas, des réalisations dans les domaines de l'urbanisme et du paysage, de l'infrastructure, des espaces culturels et centres de loisirs, des édifices publics et...
Könemann, 2000. — 1000 p. With more than 2,000 four-color photographs on 1,000 pages, each of these books presents the most significant examples of luxurious living from recent years. In The World Contemporary Architecture , architects have been accused of only looking at the pictures in books. Architecture is matter and lives from the visible, from reconfigured room...
Springer, 2024. — 230 S. Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über das Werk des Architekten Michael Balz, dem Pionier der Betonschalenarchitektur. Es behandelt seine realisierten und nicht realisierten Projekte, von denen viele in Zusammenarbeit mit dem renommierten Schweizer Ingenieur Heinz Isler entworfen wurden. Michael Balz. Schalen und Visionen ist reichlich mit...
Springer, 2024. — 231 S. Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über das Werk des Architekten Michael Balz, dem Pionier der Betonschalenarchitektur. Es behandelt seine realisierten und nicht realisierten Projekte, von denen viele in Zusammenarbeit mit dem renommierten Schweizer Ingenieur Heinz Isler entworfen wurden. Michael Balz. Schalen und Visionen ist reichlich mit...
Skira, 2000. — 183 р. The young Italian architects are now out of the "impasse and of their unwitting "ennui. Or rather, they have begun to emerge and raise their gaze from the drawing board to observe the material and non-material phenomena occurring in the outside world in the meantime. In the concrete material world of the Italian cities and landscape, sudden radical...
Routledge, 2009. — 368 p. — (Planning, History and Environment Series). — ISBN: 0419246908. International clients have long emulated American buildings such as skyscrapers, have followed patterns of American urbanism and have adopted American concepts of form and space for lesiure activities. This unique study examines how North American architecture has been 'transplanted'...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. — 248 p. Since the large-scale use of concrete prefabricated parts in the 1960s and 1970s, this material has developed new applications in recent years and also become more aesthetically refined. Extremely light and thin varieties of concrete like the newly developed Ductal and virtually transparent concrete cladding allow for the creation...
Collège de France, 2020. — 234 p. Qu'en fut-il de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme sous l'Occupation ? Si les travaux sur la France de Vichy foisonnent, le champ architectural et urbain est longtemps resté ignoré. Les politiques conduites en la matière ne sauraient se mesurer à la quantité d'édifices réalisés, mais plutôt à l'ampleur des réorganisations administratives - telle...
Reaktion Books, 2015. — 360 p. Everyone knows Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, and the chateaux of the Loire Valley, but French architects have also produced some of the most iconic buildings of the twentieth century, playing a central role in the emergence and development of modernism. In France, Jean-Louis Cohen presents a complete narrative of the unfolding architectural...
London: Phaidon Press, 2012. — 638 p. — ISBN 0714845981. This illustrated book brings history that intends to shape thinking from the late 19th Century to the Early 21st Century, for years to come and provide an introduction to this period for students, architects and the public at large. The author tries to give his account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from...
Birkhäuser, 2001. — 152 p. Yves Lion, born in Casablanca in 1945, is one of the most important architects in France. For thirty years, Lion has played an eminent role in French architecture and also in the architectural debate. This book by the leading architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen attempts for the first time a synopsis of his work. Arranged thematically, Cohen spans...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 287 p. — (Oxford History of Art). Colquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The book focuses on the work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 288 p. Colquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The book focuses on the work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le...
Reaktion Books, 2005. — 286 p. Buildings speak volumes, not just about their occupants or owners, but about the countries in which they exist. From colonnades to paving stones, the architecture of any building does more than simply date the structure—it celebrates the spirit of a people and a nation.Roger Connah's latest book, Finland, explores the culture and democratic spirit...
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1976. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0262530309; ISBN13: 978-0262530309 The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these...
Gustavo Gili, 1992. — 260 p. Ricardo Bofill (Barcelona, 1939) has shaped the character of his work through his revaluation of the aesthetic function of each construction, of its relationship with its context and in particular of its relation to the society in which it is implanted. This book subdivides the complex work of the architect in several chapters, ranging from town...
Oxford: Prentice Hall, 1996. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0-13-586677-4; ISBN13: 9780135866771. Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought...
Phaidon Press, 1992. — 436 p. Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a comprehensive narrative which provides a...
Electa/Rizzoli, 1985. — 319 p. This volume documents the complete works of Carlo Scarpa, one of the leadig Italian architects of the twentieth century. There are over two dozen essays by leading architects and architectural critics, including Bruno Zevi, Vincent Scully, Arata Isozaki, and Christian Norberg-Schulz offering an extensive overview of Scarpa's life and career as...
Electa/Rizzoli, 1987. — 288 p. Mario Botta was born in Switzerland in 1943. Botta trained as a technical draftsman and was an assistant to Le Corbusier and later Louis Kahn. In 1970, he opened his own practice in Lugano, Switzerland. His approach is essentially modernist and he has been strongly influenced by both Carlo Scarpa and Louis Kahn. Botta's work is characterized by...
Mondadori Electa, 2008. — 325 p. — (Mondadori Arte). Uno strumento pratico, compatto ma ricco di spunti e informazioni, per rispondere alle esigenze del pubblico interessato alle grandi opere realizzate in Europa negli ultimi dieci anni. I 150 progetti d'autore selezionati offrono sempre qualche peculiarità: l'importanza della funzione, la spettacolarità della struttura...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. — 242 p. Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th centurys most iconoclastic architects, is best know--and most maligned--for his large «brutalist» buildings, like the Yale Art and Architecture Building. So it will surprise many to learn that early in his career he developed a series of houses that represent the unrivaled possibilities of a modest...
Harry N. Abrams, 2002. — 304 p. This introductory historical survey reviews a variety of 20th century design movements provoked by the modern architectural movement, and exposes students to a broad spectrum of styles including art deco, organic, state classicism, and traditional architecture and their relationship to social, cultural, and political life of the period. Taking...
Thames & Hudson, 1999. — 243 p. This volume follows the same style as "American House Now" which documented the vitality of modernism in contemporary architecture in America. It provides a selection of contemporary domestic design from across the European continent, focusing on those architects whose work extends and enriches the vocabulary and philosophy of 20th-century...
Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN-10: 9783869224701; ISBN-13: 978-3869224701. This richly illustrated monograph discusses post-war modernist architecture in Soviet Lithuania which, together with other Baltic republics, has been seen as exceptional, appropriating Western cultural models much faster and with greater passion, and was labelled “the Soviet West.”...
Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN-10: 9783869224701; ISBN-13: 978-3869224701. This richly illustrated monograph discusses post-war modernist architecture in Soviet Lithuania which, together with other Baltic republics, has been seen as exceptional, appropriating Western cultural models much faster and with greater passion, and was labelled “the Soviet West.”...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. — 209 p. — (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture). — ISBN: 0292729421. American architect Hank Schubart was regarded as a genius for finding the perfect site for a house and for integrating its design into the natural setting, so that his houses appear to be as native to the forest around them as the trees and rocks. Salt Spring...
Routledge, 2022. — 237 p. After World War II, a wave of Italian films emerged that depicted the life and hardships of characters left helpless after the conflict, bringing to the screen the struggles of a time of existential angst and uncertainty. This form of filmmaking was associated with a broader artistic phenomenon known as ‘neorealism’ and is now considered a pivotal...
PPUR, 2008. — 466 p. Cet ouvrage propose une réinterprétation inédite de l'architecture de la fin du 19e et de l'ensemble du 20e siècle, selon une méthode privilégiant l'analyse de la structure, du revêtement et des matériaux, ainsi que celle de l'influence, tant en termes de conception que de mise en oeuvre, des principes formulés par Viollet-le-Duc et Semper. Richement...
Prestel, 2011. — 160 p. Focusing on contemporary architecture, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of today’s architecture. Part of a new, accessibly written, and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features contemporary architecture’s most important architects and buildings,...
Prestel, 2011. — 160 p. Focusing on contemporary architecture, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of today’s architecture. Part of a new, accessibly written, and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features contemporary architecture’s most important architects and buildings,...
Prestel, 2011. — 160 p. Focusing on contemporary architecture, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of today’s architecture. Part of a new, accessibly written, and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features contemporary architecture’s most important architects and buildings,...
Rizzoli, 1993. — 224 p. The reunification of Germany has propelled the country to the forefront of the European community, and has generated an immense amount of new building projects, bringing a new focus and clarity to German architecture. This lavishly illustrated volume presents a showcase of the latest and best of these works. The architects featured range from...
Taschen, 1995. — 175 p. Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was one of the earliest pioneers of modern architecture and design. While he never received major recognition in his hometown of Glasgow, his bold new blend of simplicity and poetic details inspired modernists across Europe. Mackintosh's avant-garde approach embraced a...
Ernest Benn, 1927. — 228 p. In a general survey of the present day architecture of the world, that of Denmark must be accorded an important place, not because it has anything of a sensational or epoch-making nature to show, but because of the consistent level of sanity and quality which contemporary Danish Architects have maintained in their work. Sensationalism in such a...
London : Thames & Hudson, 2000. — 335 p. — ISBN: 0-500-34172-9. Available again, a wholly original study of the complex relationship between architecture and language that has changed and enriched the way we think and talk about architecture.The words we use when we talk and write about architecture describe more than just bricks and mortar – they direct the ways we think of...
Rizzoli, 2002. — 234 p. Throughout the twentieth century the United States has provided remarkably fertile ground for innovative residential architecture, from the Shingle Style pioneered on the East Coast in the late nineteenth century to the deconstructivist experiments in California today. Over the decades, American and international architects alike responded to this...
3rd edition. — Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1992. — 376 p. This acclaimed survey of 20th-century architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Now revised, enlarged and expanded, Kenneth Frampton brings the story up to date and adds an entirely new concluding chapter that focuses on four countries where individual talent and enlightened patronage have...
5th edition. — Thames & Hudson, 2020. — 736 p. — ISBN 978-0-500-20444-3. An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton. Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since...
5th edition. — Thames & Hudson, 2020. — 736 p. — ISBN 978-0-500-20444-3. An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton. Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since...
5th edition. — Thames & Hudson, 2020. — 736 p. — ISBN 978-0-500-20444-3. An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton. Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since...
Electa Architecture, 2003. — 512 p. Richard Meier (b.1934) is one of America's most distinguished architects and the winner in 1984 of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. This detailed monograph is a comprehensive study of his work from 1965-2002 and covers 90 of his buildings including his best-known Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary...
Springer, 2007. — 162 p. Avant-Garde and Continuity 1887-1986 The Vicissitudes of the Organic 1910-1998 Universal Civilization and National Cultures 1935-1998 Production, Place and Reality 1927-1990
Electa, 2000. — 236 p. The Sydney Opera House, completed in 1973, is one of the world's great icons and a symbol of Australia. The overall image which it has maintained reflects the brilliant design work that Danish architect Jørn Utzon invested in the project, although it had a troubled history and was subject to many changes. This book reveals for the first time exactly what...
Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. — 204 p. New Italian Architecture is the first book to treat fully the decisive decade [1950s] during which Italian architects gained an international reputation. Milan architect Alberto Galardi places the modern works in a historical perspective by briefly sketching the development of Italian architecture from 1850 to the present. Against this...
Reaktion Books, 2013. — 338 p. Packed in its dense, historic city centers, Italy holds some of the most prized architecture and art in the world, with which planners and politicians have had to negotiate as they struggle to cope with massive migration from the countryside to the city. Early modern architecture coincided with a sustained drive to transform a country that was...
Reaktion Books, 2012. — 210 p. From Los Angeles to London to Bilbao, cities around the world nowadays boast iconic buildings by celebrity ‘starchitects’ that compete for attention on the skyline and in the media. But in recent years, criticism of these ‘gestural’ structures, famous for their exaggerated forms, has been growing. Miles Glendinning’s impassioned polemic,...
Taschen, 1991. — 432 p. This edition of "20th Century Architecture" includes colour photographs, architect biographies, and new chapters on deconstructivism and the new living architecture. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Gaudi to Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and everything in between, the book attempts to cover it all. The chronologically organized chapters put it all into...
Taschen, 2001. — 456 p. The architecture of the 20th century is distinguished by an astonishing diversity. Just as the clash of aesthetic and commercial ambitions nevertheless produced many a happy symbiosis, so the purist and the expressive, the monumental and the picturesque came face to face. From lofty “starchitects” to lesser-known names around the world, this...
Taschen, 2005. — 292 p. The ultimate architectural reference work (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This is the be-all-end-all reference work for architecture in the 20th century. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Gaudi to Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in between, it's all here. The chronologically organized chapters put it all into perspective,...
Taschen, 2005. — 324 p. The ultimate architectural reference work (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This is the be-all-end-all reference work for architecture in the 20th century. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Gaudi to Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in between, it's all here. The chronologically organized chapters put it all into perspective,...
Taschen, 2001. — 398 p. — (Architecture mondiale). La nouvelle édition de cet ouvrage qui comporte 29 chapitres a été augmentée de deux chapitres afin de présenter les évolutions essentielles de l'architecture du XXe siècle jusqu'au tournant du millénaire. Grâce à l'appui de célèbres photographes et l'utilisation de documents photographiques authentiques issus de nombreuses...
EPFL Press, 2020. — 350 p. Comme dans bien d'autres domaines, le XXe siècle incarne en architecture l'idée même d'innovation constructive. Celle-ci passe autant par le perfectionnement de techniques éprouvées que par l'introduction de technologies nouvelles, le plus souvent tributaires de la logique de la production industrielle qui finira par bouleverser le secteur de la...
Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. - 146 p. - ISBN 1-55238-125-0. Gordon Atkins practised architecture in Calgary, Alberta from the early 1960s until the late 1990s. Early in his career he established himself as one of the brightest young architects in Canada. For example, he was the first Alberta architect to win a Massey Medal, which he did in 1967. One of a group of...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 293 p. Born to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern materials and functional considerations of postwar American architecture with traditional...
London, Design Museum, 2007. — 16 p.
Заха Хадид (Zaha Hadid) — выдающийся архитектор иракского происхождения, на данный момент живет и работает в Великобритании. Она известна как первая женщина архитектор, получившая Притцкеровскую премию (аналог Нобелевской премии в области архитектуры). Заха Хадид работает в стиле деконструктивизма, а здания, построенные ей, всегда хорошо...
Wiley, 2007. — 244 p. The last decade has witnessed a whole new generation of church design. The initial catalyst for this was the Christian jubilee when high-profile architects such as Richard Meier, Renzo Piano and Alvaro Siza were commissioned to produce important new projects for the new millennium. Church building initiatives, though, have gained momentum driven by a sense...
Kirjayhtymä, 1987. — 208 p. Arkkitehtuurin historian professori Vilhelm Helanderin kirjoittama ja valokuvaaja Simo Ristan kuvittama Suomalainen rakennustaide – Modern Architecture in Finland on yksi parhaista 1900-luvun suomalaisesta arkkitehtuurista julkaistuja yleisteoksia. Kirja tarjoaa luotettavan kokonaiskuvan arkkitehtuurimme historian kehityskaarista sekä perustietoja...
Universe Publishing, 1999. — 240 p. John Lautner's sixty years in architecture comprise one of the great unexamined careers of the twentieth century. Rooted in a personal design philosophy that is the imaginative extension of the organic architectural theories of Frank Lloyd Wright (he was one of Wright's first apprentices), his exuberant designs and broad spectrum of...
N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (US), 1993. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-471-28529-8. The idea for this book originated in the mid 1970s when modern architecture was accelerating into a crisis of self-evaluation and lack of confidence in the more transparent theories of modernism. With everything possible, everythingand anythingwas seemingly being realized. Certainly in the 1980s we...
Rizzoli, 2007. — 300 p. Named America's Best Architect by Time magazine in 2001 "for buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye," Steven Holl is known for an experimental approach to architecture that is at once romantic, humanistic, and resplendently modern. Ranging across the globe, his multifarious body of work-including the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in...
University of Washington Press, 2008. — 314 p. This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter...
Academy Editions, 1995. — 96 p. This critique of Frank O. Gehry's architecture contains edited proceedings from the symposium of the same name held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in June 1994, where Gehry discussed his buildings, working methods and the contexts in which his buildings are placed. In addition, the book takes the Royal Academy debate a step further with...
Anchor Press, 1973. — 436 p. This introduction to modern architecture, from 1920 to the present, includes a section on late- and post-modernism. The book describes a critical point in the history of modern architecture.
Taschen, 2013. — 500 p. Born in Matosinhos, Portugal, in 1933, Siza created his own practice in Porto in 1954, and he has been a Professor of Construction at the University of Porto since 1976. The architect can fill shelf afer shelf with his awards and prizes to-date: He received the European Community’s Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1988 and the Praemium Imperiale in Japan in...
Taschen, 1995. — 180 p. This volume includes the most recent work by each of the major architects in contemporary Europe, including Rem Koolhaas, Sir Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Mario Botta, Joe Coenen, Nicholas Grimshaw and Christian de Portzamparc.
Taschen, 1996. — 180 p. This volume features projects which have recently been completed or are still under construction. The introductory esssay describes the movements and currents identifiable in the present broad spectrum of architectural innovation. The book also features biographies of the architects with details of their careers and awards and an overview of their...
Taschen, 1998. — 196 p. Providing a comprehensive survey of contemporary 20th-century architects, this work features the work of: Mario Botta, David Chipperfield, Jo Coenen, Sir Norman Foster, Thomas Herzog, Renzo Piano, Bernard Tschumi, Dominique Perrault and many more.
Taschen, 1997. — 237 p. В книге представлен обзор архитектурных сооружений 90-х годов. Некоторые, самые впечаляющие сооружения рассматриваются более подробно, присутствуют концепты в графическом и модельном виде. Книга в большей степени являет собой портфолио ярких представителей этой профессии, но будет интересна всем, кто имеет дело с архитектурой, моделированием и дизайном....
Taschen, 1995. — 264 p. Let there be light: The luminous modernism of Richard MeierEver since his self-proclamation as part of the New York Five, Richard Meier has risen through one top commission after another to the dizzy heights of architectural stardom. From Madison Square Garden to Shenzen, China, his sleek, luminously white modernism has created some of the most...
Taschen, 1997. — 184 p. The work of one of the most prolific contemporary architects whose designs include Hong Kong's airport, renovations at the Reichstag and British Museum, and the world's largest land based bridge at Millau.
Taschen, 2013. — 620 p. Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a new and unique architectural language to cities and structures...
Routledge, 2020. — 213 p. Olympic Stadia provides a comprehensive account of the development of stadia including but not limited to: developments in running tracks, the introduction of lighting, improvements in spectator viewing standards and the introduction of roofs. Written by a world-renowned expert on sports architecture, the book: - Systematically analyses every stadium...
Routledge, 2020. — 590 p. Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini’s government constructed thousands of new buildings across the Italian Peninsula and islands and in colonial territories. From hospitals, post offices and stadia to...
Yale University Press, 2006. — 364 p. In 1946 Ove Arup, a leading engineer of the twentieth century, founded a firm of consulting engineers that brought to fruition such iconic structures as the Sydney Opera House, the Olympic Village in Beijing, London's Millennium Bridge, the Beaubourg Centre in Paris, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, and Kansai Airport in Japan among many...
American Institute of Architects Press, 1989. — 215 p. Gunnar Birkerts has designed some of America's most innovative and distinctive architecture. A member of the Modern Movement's postwar generation, he has shown that modernism can accommodate lyrical, emotional, dynamic, and regional influences within its abstract construct. His design concepts, which grow from the...
Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 3764352906; ISBN13: 9783764352905. With the Bauhaus in Dessau, Walter Gropius created a building in 1925/26 that represented a "demonstration of architectural Modernism." (Wolfgang Pehnt). During the few years of its original use as a school with studios, until it was closed down by the Nazis in 1932, it had also become a...
Taschen, 1995. — 160 p. The projects presented in this volume provide an overview of the transformation of Asian architecture as diverse cultures move towards a synthesis of ideas and styles reconciling tradition and modernity. Architects covered include Turgut Cansever, Charles Correa, Nayyar Ali Dada and Raj Rewal.
Taschen, 1998. — 244 p. La période 1925-1965 a été une ère d'optimisme architectural: on croyait alors que les nouvelles techniques industrielles et le rationalisme appliqués à l'architecture et à l'urbanisme allaient nécessairement créer un monde meilleur. Le «projet de modernité» avait des ambitions sociales et non pas seulement formelles, ce que l’on a tendance à oublier...
Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2001. — 192 p. Le piéton qui déambule dans les principaux centres-villes du Canada ne pourra éviter de passer devant un édifice signé Ross et Macdonald. Leurs immeubles (comme l’édifice Dominion Square à Montréal ou l’hôtel Royal York à Toronto) sont autant de témoignages d’une époque pendant laquelle les métropoles se bâtissaient à...
Harvard University Press, 1985. — 295 p. In the spring of 1933, the Nazi government began its campaign to eliminate "modern" tendencies in German art--with particular emphasis on architecture--and to eradicate what it chose to call "art bolshevism." The Bauhaus, by then an internationally famous center of avant garde design, was shut down. In a close analysis of intellectual,...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 322 p. The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 320 p. The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also...
University of Virginia Press, 2023. — 281 p. How do we create the new from the old? The Architecture of Influence explores this fundamental question by analyzing a broad swath of twentieth-century architectural works―including some of the best-known examples of the architectural canon, modern and postmodern―through the lens of influence. The book serves as both a critique of...
Prestel, 2004. — 168 p. The evolution of the skyscraper reveals a fascinating success story that began near the end of the 19th century. Not only have skyscrapers fundamentally transformed our cities, they have also drastically altered the way we perceive architecture. Alongside the ongoing contest to erect the world's tallest building, skyscrapers are associated with a large...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 327 p. From the legendary Ebbets Field in the heart of Brooklyn to the amenity-packed Houston Astrodome to the "retro" Oriole Park at Camden Yards, stadiums have taken many shapes and served different purposes throughout the history of American sports culture. In the early twentieth century, a new generation of stadiums arrived, located...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 321 p. From the legendary Ebbets Field in the heart of Brooklyn to the amenity-packed Houston Astrodome to the "retro" Oriole Park at Camden Yards, stadiums have taken many shapes and served different purposes throughout the history of American sports culture. In the early twentieth century, a new generation of stadiums arrived, located...
Princeton Architectural Press, 1991. — 175 р. This book presents the output of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) of Rotterdam, founded by the architect Rem Koolhaas, during the 1980s. The work with which Rem Koolhaas came to the attention of contemporary design culture, an attentive, ironic analysis of the metropolitan condition of modern architecture, Koolhaas was...
Birkhäuser, 1999. — 111 p. The museum boom, which has produced a constant stream of new buildings in many cities in Europe and the USA since the seventies, has reached another high point. Important museum buildings by high-profile architects have opened within a single year in Bilbao, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Bregenz and Basel. The concert hall in Jean Nouvela (TM)s Culture...
Nobuko, 2003. — 242 p. El presente trabajo del profesor Madia pretende despertar el interés en el lector, de la necesidad de entender a la Arquitectura como testigo palpable de la evolución social en el mundo y en lo regional, nacional y local, pretendiendo a su valoración testimonial y su preservación. Así ha buscado que su discurso crítico tenga acogida por afuera de la...
2o edición. — Nobuko, 2008. — 258 p. El presente trabajo del profesor Madia pretende despertar el interés en el lector, de la necesidad de entender a la Arquitectura como testigo palpable de la evolución social en el mundo y en lo regional, nacional y local, pretendiendo a su valoración testimonial y su preservación. Así ha buscado que su discurso crítico tenga acogida por...
Reaktion Books, 2019. — 365 p. This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia's architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for better city forms and buildings to accommodate the changing realities of Australian life and to express an emerging,...
Feierabend, 2006. — 599 p. Frank 0. Gehry is one of the world's most innovative and acclaimed architects, with an active career spanning nearly four decades. His heart-stopping designs can be seen across the globe, and while the buildings' functions vary, all share Gehry's signature elements: ingenious manipulations of light, shadow and geometry. This exciting retrospective of...
Thames and Hudson, 1972. — 200 p. New British Architecture by Robert Maxwell presents the best of British modernism of the 1960s. What is represented here is the kind of architecture which is attempting to extend the range of convention, whether in a big way or in a small way: architect’s architecture, if you like – although the selection is not confined, I hope, to a single...
Wiley, 1999. — 128 p. What emerges is as picture of a man who was probably America's most talented Late Modernist, whose dynamic designs and superb graphics contributed to the golden period of the 1960s when Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi all had a profound influence on progressive modern architecture. This is the first comprehensive study of Paul Rudolph's...
Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2011. — 352 p. In 1961, reacting to U.S. government plans to survey, design, and build fallout shelters, the president of the American Institute of Architects, Philip Will, told the organization’s members that “all practicing architects should prepare themselves to render this vital service to the nation and to their clients.” In an era of nuclear weapons,...
St. James Press, 1987. — 1038 p. "To strengthen the contemporary focus of this volume, we have added about forty architects and have deleted some whose activity ceased before World War II. In making these decisions, we have been assisted by an Advisory Board. As in the first volume, we have continued to define the word "architect" very broadly, so as to include planners,...
Adam Biro, 1999. — 234 p. Depuis l'inauguration en 1987 à Paris du stupéfiant Institut du monde arabe, Jean Nouvel a réalisé à travers l'Europe des constructions qui partagent une même vision personnelle. Toutes mettent en valeur une même conscience urbaine et architecturale, une semblable fluidité de forme et d'approche, une sensibilité identique au contexte et à la fonction....
Thames and Hudson, 1998. — 239 p. Since his stunning Institut du Monde Arabe opened in Paris in 1987, French architect Jean Nouvel has designed buildings throughout Europe that share a personal vision which highlights an urban and architectural awareness, a fluidity of form and approach, and a sensitivity to context and function. Based on the primary architectural elements that...
Birkhäuser Verlag, 1996. — 515 p. The Birkhauser Architectural Guides provide a handy overview to the greatest - and latest - buildings in the 20th century. Each volume is devoted to one country or group of countries, and the contents are organised by provinces and towns. Full addresses and information on the architect, the building itself, in addition to a general overview of...
C.H.Beck, 2023. — 817 S. Mit diesem Buch legt Winfried Nerdinger, renommierter und vielfach ausgezeichneter Architekturhistoriker, einen umfassenden Überblick zur Architektur in Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert vor. Es sind 100 prägende Jahre, von Peter Behrens bis Günter Behnisch, vom Völkerschlachtdenkmal und Faguswerk bis zur Stalinallee und dem neuen Bundestag – 100 Jahre, in...
MGS Press, 2008. — 343 p. Trieste 1918-1954. Guida all’architettura si propone di far conoscere la città attraverso l’architettura, raccontando le storie complesse – alcune volte conosciute, altre volte dimenticate oppure rimaste nascoste – dei suoi palazzi, delle sue piazze e dei suoi piani urbanistici; inoltre vuole interpretare i segni con cui l’architettura e la città...
Andreas Papadakis Publisher, 2000. — 136 p. Principles of Modern Architecture is not a history of modern architecture. Its aim is theoretical and it represents an attempt to explain the basic tenets of the new architecture that came into being around the turn of the century. The many misunderstandings currently in circulation make such an attempt a timely one. Modern...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 269 p. — (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture). Acclaimed for his designs of the Trinity University campus, the Little Chapel in the Woods, the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Components Division Building, and numerous private houses, O’Neil Ford (1905–1982) was an important twentieth-century architect and a pioneer of modernism in Texas....
Phaidon Press, 1998. — 524 p. Contemporary World Architecture is a comprehensive survey of international architecture at the turning point of a new century. Focusing on modern building types and the forces that shape them, it offers a critical study of more than six hundred buildings by key architects worldwide. Analysing thirteen separate building categories, it traces the...
Birkhäuser, 1998. — 268 S. Nur sieben Jahre trennen diese Ausgabe von der ersten, und dennoch ist mit den neu hinzugefügten Bildern, Projektskizzen und Plänen ein anderes, in mancherlei Hinsicht komplementäres Buch entstanden, das nicht nur die Verwandlungen nachvollziehbar macht, die einzelne Projekte in ihrer Verwirklichung erfahren haben, sondern auch den Ideenreichtum und...
Rizzoli, 1988. — 266 p. This comprehensive volume provides an overview of Berlage’s architectural achievements. It covers both the 19th and 20th centuries, showcasing his innovative designs and influential contributions to Dutch architecture.
Merrell, 2005. — 240 p. Modern: The Modern Movement in Britain is a new survey of buildings of the 1930s, the decade in which Britain began to play an important role in the history of modern architecture. From private houses and apartment blocks to schools and factories, it features both well-known examples and many projects that have long been overlooked. The main body of the...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. — 224 p. — (New Voices in Architecture). It's been our distinct pleasure over the past few years to publish monographs on a select group of young architects and firms whose work represents the best of contemporary design thinking while retaining a distinctive regional sensibility. The Nova-Scotian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons fits neatly...
DETAIL, 2023. — 238 p. South Tyrol is a memorable place: climatically, culturally, and from a culinary standpoint, the region epitomises well-being in a stunning, mountainous setting like no other. Alpine Architecture in South Tyrol captures and highlights the region’s profile in all its multi-layered complexity. From cable car stops to mountain huts, monastery conversions to...
DETAIL, 2023. — 238 p. South Tyrol is a memorable place: climatically, culturally, and from a culinary standpoint, the region epitomises well-being in a stunning, mountainous setting like no other. Alpine Architecture in South Tyrol captures and highlights the region’s profile in all its multi-layered complexity. From cable car stops to mountain huts, monastery conversions to...
Penguin Books, 1962. — 244 p. An Introduction to Modern Architecture, which has been newly revised and brought up to date, sets out to explain what 'modern' architecture is all about. In these days, when the need for new buildings is so great and so many building plans are being made, it is specially important that everyone should have an understanding of the principles of...
Dutton Book, 1998. — 392 p. Incisive, jargon-free and a pleasure to read, A Field Guide To American Architecture presents an exceptionally comprehensive view of American architecture from the 1940s to the present. Plentiful photographs and graphic representations, carefully interwoven with succint text and informative captions, make this volume ideal for browsing as well as...
The Museum of Modern Art, 1995. — 163 p. Transparency and luminescence have re-emerged in the vocabulary of architecture, and light and "lightness" have become key concepts for a significant number of contemporary architects, as well as artists who create installations. Work by these designers recalls the use of transparent materials in early modern structures, but they have...
The Museum of Modern Art, 2005. — 280 p. This publication and the exhibition it accompanies feature 36 current architectural projects throughout Spain, a country that in recent years has become known as a center for design innovation and excellence well beyond Bilbao. The projects are seen in relation to 16 other major architectural accomplishments recently completed in Spain....
MIT Press, 1985. — 260 p. British architect and planner Bill Risebero recreates 200 years of modern architecture and design against a backdrop of class dominance over rising industrialism. The lively and opinionated text and more than 1,000 captioned drawings by the author provide a refreshing reinterpretation of architectural developments in the modern period.
Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. — 263 p. While Havana's colonial mansions have recently received worldwide attention, the immense wealth of modern architecture in Cuba has long been neglected. The first half of the twentieth century was a culturally rich era for Cuba, a time in which the architects of the Modern Movement sought to define an identity for this Caribbean...
MGS Press, 2007. — 415 p. Trieste 1872-1917. Guida all’architettura si propone di offrire al lettore – turista o cittadino – un contributo di conoscenze sullo sviluppo urbano a Trieste in un periodo cruciale che ha visto la città espandersi e rinnovare il suo volto, attraverso i progetti di alcuni tra i protagonisti dell’architettura europea, interpreti delle tensioni e degli...
Laterza, 1989. — 315 p. Il disegno dell'architettura americana è per noi di assoluto interesse per una lunga serie di ragioni. Ma prima di addentrarci nell'analisi di queste ragioni, proviamo a chiarire cosa intendiamo quando parliamo di «disegno». E proprio l' ambiguità semantica implicita nel termine «disegno» a caratterizzare la lettura di questi ultimi due decenni...
Editorial Gustavo Gili/Art Institute of Chicago, 1992. — 185 p. This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970. — 132 p. This volume is a fully illustrated guide to the development of architectural and environmental awareness in Finland during the twentieth century. The author traces the influence Finland's outstanding architects have had upon everything from building materials, town-planning, and the position of architects in society to furniture design for...
Editions Assouline, 2004. — 86 p. Oscar Niemeyer, one of the most prolific architects of the 20th century, has long been considered a pioneer of modern architecture. This book is an intimate exploration of one man's unique vision, and his commitment to it even as he faced exile from his home country, Brazil. Niemeyer's crowning achievement was the creation of a new capital for...
Almaty, 2023. — 133 p. The architecture of Las Vegas is a peculiar phenomenon of modern architecture, which has had a significant impact on its evolution. The vivid imagery of the appearance of most buildings, the constant transformation of built-up areas are a great addition to a large complex of various entertainment available to residents and guests of the city. The...
Taschen, 2007. — 96 p. Before aesthete, designer, and architect Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) came along, Austrian architecture and design was suffocating under a surfeit of opulent ornamentation and bombastic flourish. With his radical new approach and a band of like-minded figures, Hoffmann was a founding father of the Viennese Secession and Wiener Werkstätte and revolutionized...
New York: St Martins Pr, 1984. — 276 p. — ISBN10: 031201709X; ISBN13: 978-0312017095. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel Did the master builder of the Third Reich, Albert Speer, really not know about the Nazi extermination camps? What did he conceal from Allied interrogators, and from the millions who bought his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich ? Here is the chilling, documented...
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. — 166 p. — (Monographs on the fine arts 45). Adolf Hitler admired ancient Rome as the "crystallization point of a world empire," a capital with massive public monuments that reflected the supremacy of the State and the political might of the ancient world's "master-race." He also admired the way Mussolini turned the monuments of...
Нью-Йорк: George Braziller, Inc., 1961. — 128 с. — 6-е изд. — (Серия «The Great Ages of World Architecture»). — ISBN 0807603341 From Louis Sullivan's first successful attempts to give steel construction its own form and expression, to city planning, contemporary megastructures, public housing, and the Mobile Home, Vincent Scully examines the significant aspects of modern...
George Braziller, 1974. — 158 p. — (The Great Ages of World Architecture). Traces the origin and development of modern architecture and evaluates its meaning in modern life.
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 543 р. The English-language edition of Josef Hoffmann: das architecktonische Werk (Salzburg, Austria: Residenz Verlag, 1982), this book is the first comprehensive examination of one of the pioneers of modern architecture and design. Hoffmann (1870-1956), a founder of the Secession movement and the Wiener Werstatte, is influential to this day....
New York: Vintage, 1996. — 800 p. — ISBN10: 0679768122; ISBN13: 978-0679768128 Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this enigma of a man is...
Taschen, 2006. — 104 p. Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century`s great visionaries, both in the fields of furniture design (he created the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, for example) and in architecture. Among his greatest accomplishments are monuments that shaped architecture in postwar America and became icons in themselves: Washington D.C.’s...
Architectural Press, 1978. — 238 p. In its philosophical usage the term rationalist can be readily defined: agreeable to reason, reasonable, sensible, not foolish, absurd or extravagant. In the philosophical sense the word has historical continuity. Its definitive use relates to the modern world view of Descartes (1596-1650) who argued for the unity of thinking and for...
Pierre Mardaga, 1975. — 316 p. Le vingtième siècle a bouleversé brutalement et fondamentalement la plupart des secteurs de l'architecture. Cette période, qui vit le développement de nouveaux matériaux et de nouvelles méthodes de construction, s'est enrichie d'une extraordinaire variété de bâtiments, allant de structures hautement personnelles et chargées d'une émotion intense à...
Images Publishing, 2002. — 497 p. Twentieth Century Architecture is a fully documented, richly illustrated guide to the great architectural achievements of the last one hundred years. The book chronicles the technological advances, engineering achievements and aesthetic issues that have led to dramatic changes in every branch of architecture. The essential reference work...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 362 p. How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet era. In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order...
Rizzoli, 1995. — 502 p. This book examines the cultural and artistic awakening of New York City through a detailed look at the city's architecture and urbanism during the years 1890-1915, when the city first acquired a distinct sense of itself as the representative American metropolis, comparable to London and Paris.
The Monacelli Press, 1995. — 1374 p. The post-World War II era witnessed New York's reign as the unofficial but undisputed economic and artistic capital of the world. By the mid-1970s, the city had experienced a profound reversal, and both its economy and its reputation were at a historic nadir. This is the third volume (and the fourth chronologically) in architect and...
Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. — 84 p. This palm-sized book presents two innovative structures of the modern age - and two of the most important art museums. The book highlights the New York Guggenheim, Frank Lloyd Wright's achievement, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed to high acclaim by Frank Gehry. One half of the book contains 30 duotone photographs...
Electa/Rizzoli, 1986. — 246 p. — (History of world architecture). Modern Architecture/1 and 2 document the incredible diversity and change that have taken place in architectural and urban design during the past one hundred years. The informative text offers an in-depth analysis of societal forces shaping the landscape of modern architecture throughout Europe and the United...
MIT Press, 1989. — 412 p. A civil history, a political history, and a history of ideas are juxtaposed with a history of architecture in this work by one of today's most important historians and critics of architecture and urbanism. Manfredo Tafuri presents a sophisticated account of the origins and development of the movements and schools that have shaped Italian architecture...
The MIT Press, 1987. — 386 p. This major work by Manfredo Tafuri, one of today's most important theoretical historians and critics of architecture and urbanism, presents his critique of traditional approaches to historical investigation and criticism in a penetrating analysis of the avant-gardes and discourses of architecture. Instead of transforming reality, modern avant-garde...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 290 p. This innovative study of memorial architecture investigates how design can translate memories of human loss into tangible structures, creating spaces for remembering. Using approaches from history, psychology, anthropology and sociology, Sabina Tanović explores purposes behind creating contemporary memorials in a given location, their...
New York, 1995. — 303 p. This book is focused on the inception and construction of one of the world’s most notable landmarks - The Empire State Building. The book can undoubtedly be considered the most comprehensive account of the structure. Moreover, it is far more than a work in architectural history; Tauranac tells a larger story of the politics of urban development from the...
Prestel, 1998. — 189 p. This illustrated volume is the best of what international architectural experts have to offer: a convincing selection of the century's superlative architecture from the turn of the century to present day. The buildings examined in this book, well-known today as icons of 2Oth century architecture, were considered spectacular in their own times for reasons...
Rizzoli, 1992. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 0847816249, ISBN13: 9780847816248. This work, winner of the 1992 American Institute of Architects Award, surveys two and a half decades of architectural projects in Europe. It begins with the completion of the first commissions embodying the ideas that sprang out of the exuberant events of 1968, and ends with the official unification of Europe....
Thames and Hudson, 2000. — 311 p. Winner of an American Institute of Architects Award, this book surveys twenty yearsof a period characterized by conflict between tradition and invention, modern and anti-modern, and by an abundance of disparate design solutions. The epoch begins with the completion in 1972 of the first commissions embodying the ideas that sprang out of the events...
Reaktion Books, 2013. — 289 p. The picture that usually comes to mind when we think of Greek architecture is one of classical temples and ancient sites. This book takes a look at the Greece of reality rather than of the imagination – the buildings constructed since the establishment of the modern Greek state. Greece: Modern Architectures in History provides a new understanding...
Birkhäuser Verlag, 1998. — 308 p. The Birkhauser Architectural Guides provide a handy overview to the greatest - and latest - buildings in the 20th century. Each volume is devoted to one country or group of countries, and the contents are organised by provinces and towns. Full addresses and information on the architect, the building itself, in addition to a general overview of...
Harper & Row, 1974. — 179 p. Between the two World Wars there was a period of intense building in New York City in what is now known as the Art Deco style. While most people are aware of this style as exemplified by Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building, it is not so widely know that it included all trypes of structures- office buildings, apartments, stores, hotels,...
University of Minnesota Press, 2022. — 332 p. Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project....
Rizzoli, 2006. — 256 p. Often described as Prince Charless favorite architect, Quinlan Terry is at home in every traditional style, from Classical Greek to Roman, Gothic to Renaissance, and Baroque to Neo-classical. With intense new interest in classical design, there is a high demand for a compilation of Terrys work, a volume that showcases the ideas and creations of one of...
Detail, 2023. — 328 p. Barcelona is a vibrant hotbed of forward-looking architecture and urban planning. The Catalan metropolis is home to more bold concepts for climate adaptation and urban coexistence than almost anywhere else in Europe. The book highlights some of the most exciting structures built in Barcelona since 2010, bringing readers on a guided tour of surprising...
Laurence King Publishing, 2003. — 271 p. The design of the house has been a source of endless experimentation and innovation for modern architects, a means to try out new theories, styles, forms and materials. This volume gives a detailed, comprehensive treatment of the history of the modern house, covering all the key examples together with many others that are less well known...
Laurence King Publishing, 2004. — 241 p. For the first time, a student can now find all the key plans in one place. Featuring more than 100 of the most significant and influential buildings of the twentieth century, this book includes both classic works by such seminal architects as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto, as well as those by more...
Abelard-Schuman, 1974. — 706 p. Aims to present a balanced picture of European architecture embracing all the main trends. Presented in five parts: - Historical Background and Early Years to 1918 - Tradition, Transition and Change 1919-1941 - Functionalism Logic and Light 1924-42 - Political Determinism and Classical Monumentality 1930-1940 - Towards a Better Physical...
Warszawa: Arkady, 1968. — 289 s.
Jedna z najlepszych pozycji traktujących o trendach kształtujących architekturę modernizmu w II Rzeczpospolitej. Ilustracje, opisy, plany, oraz bogata bibliografia znakomicie dopełnia zagadnienia książki.
LST Publishing House, 2011. — 272 p. This book collects 37 classic hospitality design cases sorted into five categories such as holiday, brand, environmental protect, classic works and extravagant style, including the works of master of architecture Frank Gehry. Every case is introduced comprehensively by exquisite pictures, detailed technological pictures and words. On matter...
Countryside Books, 2012. — 81 p. The Art Deco period of the 1920s and 1930s swept away the sobriety of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, bringing in homes that were bright, colourful and exciting. Drawing inspiration from ancient Egyptian forms and modern architecture, Art Deco is arguably the most distinctive style of the 20th century and is characterised by streamlined white...
Rizzoli, 1985. — 206 p. Examines the designs of Erich Mendelsohn for a variety of stores, factories, houses, and other buildings and discusses the development of his style of architecture.
Birkhäuser, 1999. — 461 p. A comprehensive monograph on the Complete Works of Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953), the leading exponent of architectural Expressionism. Not only does it cover all the works with hundreds of photos, it has very thorough and detailed writing and research on his entire career. The author has clearly researched all aspect of Mendelsohn, his life, career,...
Toruń, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2008. — 171 s. Publikacja jest próbą przybliżenia czytelnikowi problematyki dworu polskiego, jego ewolucji historycznej, toku życia oraz czasów degradacji i upadku, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem północno-wschodnich kresów dawnej Rzeczypospolitej.
М.: Вече, 2010. — 352 с. — (Элегантная диктатура). Смешанное качество - основная книга B/W, обложки и приложения - цветные. Есть текстовый слой . Говоря об архитектуре Третьего рейха обычно употребляют слова: гигантомания, мегаломания, "мания величия". Пожалуй, ни один из политических режимов в истории человечества не удостаивался столь частых обвинений в гигантомании, как...
М.: Вече, 2010. — 352 с. — (Элегантная диктатура). Говоря об архитектуре Третьего рейха обычно употребляют слова: гигантомания, мегаломания, "мания величия". Пожалуй, ни один из политических режимов в истории человечества не удостаивался столь частых обвинений в гигантомании, как национал-социалистическая диктатура. Однако можно ли всю архитектуру Третьего рейха относить к...
М.: Стройиздат, 1990. — 288 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-274-00858-5; 83-213-3259-5. ...Слово значило в истории архитектуры куда больше, чем это кажется тем, кто вполне удовлетворяется рассматриванием картинок в журналах. Книга Я. Вуека — об этом тоже. Вуек неоднократно дает в тексте книги самоопределение задачи: свести счеты с «модернизмом», что делает «Мифы и утопии архитектуры XX века»...
М.: Стройиздат 1970. — 392 c. — (Архитектура зарубежных стран). В книге, подготовленной советскими и болгарскими архитекторами, обобщен опыт архитектуры и строительства социалистической Болгарии, главным образом в 1960-е гг. Исторические предпосылки и условия развития архитектуры . Основные достижения и проблемы современного градостроительства . Архитектура жилых домов ....
Пер. с англ. A. Георгиев. — М. : Прогресс-Традиция, 2014. — 224 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-89826-419-2. В фундаментальной монографии творчески, нешаблонно мыслящего голландского исследователя Ханса Ибелингса архитектура XX века рассматривается комплексно - внимание автора не сосредотачивается на архитектуре преимущественно Западной Европы. Рассматривая архитектурные стили и...
М.: Стройиздат, 1982. — 120 с. Дается ретроспективный краткий обзор архитектуры Ирландии. Рассматриваются архитектура и градостроительство Ирландской Республики, образование которой в 1921 г. способствовало развитию городов, сельскому строительству, производству строительных материалов. Особое внимание уделено современной ирландской архитектуре. Рассказывается об архитектуре...
М.: Прогресс-традиция, 2001. — 656 с. — ISBN: 5-89826-096-X. В книге выстроена общая картина мирового архитектурного процесса XX в., архитектура России показана как часть системы. Анализируются творческие концепции и направления. Архитектура рассмотрена во взаимодействии с культурой времени, в зависимости от социальных процессов. Показаны связи современной архитектуры с...
М.: Прогресс-традиция, 2001. — 656 с. — ISBN: 5-89826-096-X. В книге выстроена общая картина мирового архитектурного процесса XX в., архитектура России показана как часть системы. Анализируются творческие концепции и направления. Архитектура рассмотрена во взаимодействии с культурой времени, в зависимости от социальных процессов. Показаны связи современной архитектуры с...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2002. — 672 с. — ISBN: 5-89826-130-3. В книге впервые в отечественной литературе выстроена общая картина мирового архитектурного процесса XX столетия; архитектура России в ее изменениях показана как часть системы меняющегося мира. Анализируются творческие концепции и направления, вытеснявшие в своем соперничестве представление о едином стиле времени,...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2002. — 672 с. — ISBN: 5-89826-130-3. В книге впервые в отечественной литературе выстроена общая картина мирового архитектурного процесса XX столетия; архитектура России в ее изменениях показана как часть системы меняющегося мира. Анализируются творческие концепции и направления, вытеснявшие в своем соперничестве представление о едином стиле времени,...
М.: Стройиздат, 1972. — 144 с.: ил. Книга посвящена развитию архитектуры Финляндии в годы после второй мировой войны. В области зодчества Финляндия занимает особое место среди капиталистических стран благодаря активному влиянию демократических сил на развитие строительства. В этой стране создан ряд жилых комплексов, общественных и промышленных зданий, объемно-планировочные,...
БАН, 1956. — 93 с. — (Материали от българското архитектурно наследство 7). Съдебната палата е замислена още в края на 19 век и за нея е проведен международен конкурс, спечелен от българския архитект Никола Лазаров, но кризисните военни и следвоенни времена отлагат изпълнението на проекта. През 1928 г. последният е преработен от архитект Пенчо Койчев. Сградата е построена през...
Пер. с нем. — М.: Стройиздат, 1975. — 213 с.: ил. Книга представляет собой анализ основных тенденций в архитектуре и градостроительстве Германской Демократической Республики за 25 лет (1949 - 1973 гг.) и содержит прогнозы развития на расчетный срок (1990 г.). Характеризуются основные достижения зодчих и строителей ГДР и главные направления по всем отраслям строительства и...
СПб.: Коло, 2011. — 464 с. — ISBN: 978-5-901841-84-6
Издание посвящено выдающемуся зодчему первой половины XX века Н. В. Васильеву (1875-1958). Впервые на основе новейших данных подробно рассматривается его творчество периода эмиграции. В научный оборот вводится целый ряд его архитектурных и графических работ; большинство документов и иллюстраций в этой части публикуются также...
Москва: Наука, 1965. — 112 с. В настоящей работе, не претендующей на полноту охвата всех сторон архитектурной практики, из широкого круга технических, экономических и эстетических проблем рассматриваются лишь архитектурно-художественные вопросы застройки городов Германской Демократической Республики. Эстетические проблемы архитектуры, разумеется, не могут рассматриваться...
М.: Едиториал УРСС, 2016. — 480 с.: ил. Книга представляет суждения автора об архитектурных итогах XX века; рассказывает о многих примечательных сооружениях, созданных в разных частях света, о выдающихся мастерах архитектуры. Автор также делится воспоминаниями о своей собственной творческой судьбе. Эта книга для тех, кто любит архитектуру - не только старую, но и новую,...
М.: Академия, 2006. — 272 с. — ISBN: 5-7695-2480-4. Дан краткий обзор развития зарубежной архитектуры XX в. Рассматриваются основные направления мировой архитектуры. Даётся определение каждого из стилистических направлений, приводятся характерные черты, особенности, причины и предпосылки их возникновения. Анализируется творчество выдающихся зарубежных архитекторов, лидеров того...
Учебное пособие для студентов высших учебных заведений. — М.: Академия, 2007. — 267 с. Дан краткий обзор развития зарубежной архитектуры XX в. Рассматриваются основные направления мировой архитектуры. Даётся определение каждого из стилистических направлений, приводятся характерные черты, особенности, причины и предпосылки их возникновения. Анализируется творчество выдающихся...
М.: Арт-Родник, 2006. — 96 с. Книга посвящена жизни и творчеству одного из новаторов американской архитектурной мысли первой половины XX века - Фрэнку Ллойду Райту. Издание представляет собой обзор наиболее выдающихся проектов мастера, включая административные, общественные, религиозные постройки, знаменитые "дома прерий".
Фотографии: Клаус Г. Байер. — М.: Советский художник, 1974. — 140 с. Антифашистские мемориальные ансамбли Бухенвальд, Равенсбрюк, Заксенхаузен занимают особое место в истории немецкого и европейского искусства. Воздвигнутые по решению правительства ГДР на средства, пожертвованные населением республики в местах бывших гитлеровских концентрационных лагерей, эти мемориалы являются...
ЦНИИ теории и истории архитектуры. — Москва: Стройиздат, 1985. — 272 с., ил. Показана многообразная по своему содержанию архитектура капиталистических стран 70-х годов с нарочито деларируемой "плюралистичностью" архитектурного творчества. Рассматриваются кризисные явления в архитектуре, дается анализ постмодернизма — сложного и внутренне противоречивого течения новейшей...
М.: Стройиздат, 1981. — 303 с.: ил. Анализируется общее состояние современной архитектуры и градостроительства Франции, развитие теоретической мысли, организация строительства. Освещаются вопросы территориального устройства провинциальных метрополий, принципы формирования рекреационных зон. Рассказывается об архитектуре новых районов Парижа и Парижской агломерации. Приводятся...
М.: Эксмо, 2019. — 284 с. Заха Хадид была революционеркой в мире архитектуры и единственной женщиной-лауреатом Притцкеровской премии. Плавные, почти инопланетные формы, острые углы, искаженные перспективы и пропорции – архитектурный гений Захи узнаваем в каждом ее здании. На протяжении долгих лет ее дизайны оставались лишь идеями, они опережали время и технологии. Эта книга...
Пер. с порт., англ. и фр. Н.С. Константиновой. — М.: Прогресс, 1975. — 192 с. В книге рассматривается творчество, архитектурно-теоретические взгляды одного из виднейших бразильских архитекторов XX века Оскара Нимейера. Особое внимание уделено его работам в новой столице Бразилии — городе Бразилиа. Оскар Нимейер написал две книги архитектурно-мемуарного характера, предисловия к...
Пер. с порт., англ. и фр. Н.С. Константиновой. — Москва: Прогресс, 1975. — 192 с. В книге рассматривается творчество, архитектурно-теоретические взгляды одного из виднейших бразильских архитекторов XX века Оскара Нимейера. Особое внимание уделено его работам в новой столице Бразилии — городе Бразилиа. Оскар Нимейер написал две книги архитектурно-мемуарного характера,...
2-е изд. перераб. и доп. — Москва: Стройиздат, 1986. — 208 с. — (Мастера архитектуры). Рассматриваются творчество, архитектурно-теоретические взгляды, литературная и общественная деятельность одного из виднейших зарубежных архитекторов XX в. Оскара Нимейера. Особое внимание уделено его работам в новой столице Бразилии — городе Бразилиа. раскрывается судьба градостроительного...
2-е издание. Переработано и дополнено. — М.: Стройиздат, 1986. — 208 с. Рассматриваются творчество, архитектурно-теоретические взгляды, литературная и общественная деятельность одного из виднейших зарубежных архитекторов XX в. Оскара Нимейера. Особое внимание уделено его работам в новой столице Бразилии – городе Бразилиа. Раскрывается судьба градостроительного замысла Бразилиа...
Под ред. Г.П. Минервина. — М.: Госстройиздат, 1963. — 264 с. — (Архитектура в капиталистических странах). Говоря об архитектуре США, может быть, даже следовало поставить под сомнение сам термин «новейшая», потому что в США не существовало архитектуры «старейшей». Там не было Парфенона, не было Колизея, не было Коломенского храма Вознесения. Там были лишь сменявшие друг друга...
Навчальний посібник. — Львів: Видавництво Львівської політехніки, 2010. — 384 с. Подано загальну картину світового архітектурного процесу останньої третини XX-початку XXI ст. Проаналізовано стилі та напрямки, які формували концептуальний ландшафт архітектурного розвитку останніх десятиліть XX ст. та на початку третього тисячоліття. Архітектуру розглянуто у взаємодії з культурою...
М.: Стройиздат, 1990. — 322 с. В этом, не претендующем на социологический подход очерке затронуты отношения новейшей архитектуры Запада с педагогическими центрами искусства, с галереями, выставками и изданиями по искусству. Исторические сведения проливают свет на некоторые особенности профессионального образования, архитектурной прессы и экспозиций. Париж, Лондон, Венеция,...
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