Konrad Wachsmann S Television
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Konrad Wachsmann S Television
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Author : Mark Wigley
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-02-02
Konrad Wachsmann S Television written by Mark Wigley and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with Architecture categories.
A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. Investigating the archives of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, Wigley scrutinizes Wachsmann's design, research, and teaching, closely reading a succession of unseen drawings, models, photographs, correspondence, publications, syllabi, reports, and manuscripts to argue that Wachsmann is an anti-architect—a student of some of the most influential designers of the 1920s who dedicated thirty-five post–Second World War years to the disappearance of architecture. Wachsmann turned architecture against itself. His hypnotic projects for a new kind of space were organized around the thought that television enables a different way of living together. While architecture is typically embarrassed by television, preferring to act as if it never happened, Wachsmann fully embraced it. He dissolved buildings into pulsating mirages that influenced the experimental avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s; but Wigley demonstrates that this work was even more extreme than the experiments it inspired. Wigley's forensic analysis of a career shows that Wachsmann developed one of the most compelling manifestos of what architecture would need to become in the age of ubiquitous electronics.
The Dream Of The Factory Made House
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Author : Gilbert Herbert
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1984
The Dream Of The Factory Made House written by Gilbert Herbert and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Architecture categories.
This is the story of what came to be known as the "packaged house," one of the few architect-inspired attempts to manufacture and market a prefabricated home. The plan began in the 1940s as a major collaborative effort between Walter Gropius, then at the height of his fame, and Konrad Wachsmann, a rising star-both in exile from their native Germany. For both men, this was the culmination of many years of experience in the field of industrialized housing and an unparalleled opportunity to make their long-cherished dream of a factory-made house a reality. How did this venture, which seemed to have everything going for it, turn out to be such a dismal failure? The answers to that question make this one of the most fascinating studies in the annals of modern architecture. Gilbert Herbert's analysis of the bold undertaking has within it not only the elements of personal drama, as far as Gropius and Wachsmann are concerned, but it unfolds consequences of more drastic significance for the development of industrially-produced housing the world over. Both architects represented a formidable combination of ability and experience; both had contributed significantly to the theory and practice of prefabrication, and had devised a system that was technically impeccable. That "only a small number of these immaculately conceived and engineered houses was actually sold" was not only a great disappointment for them, it was a grave shock to the whole movement for industrially-produced housing. The facts of the Gropius-Wachsmann case—now fully disclosed with extensive visual documentation—are instructive in themselves. But the real significance of this book lies in its ability to relate the facts to the history of industrialized housing and to the modern architect's confrontation with technological, economic, and social forces.
Servermanifest
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Author : Niklas Maak
language : de
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Release Date : 2022-06-08
Servermanifest written by Niklas Maak and has been published by Hatje Cantz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-08 with Architecture categories.
Serverfarmen sind in der digitalen Welt das, was früher Schlösser waren: der Sitz der Macht. Doch wenn Daten der größte kollektive Schatz einer digitalen Gesellschaft sind, das Grundmaterial für Wirtschaft und Politik, warum sind dann die Orte, an denen sie gespeichert werden, so wenig sichtbar? Gemeinsam mit Studierenden der Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main zeigt Niklas Maak, wie die Zukunft der wichtigsten neuen Bautypologie des 21. Jahrhunderts aussehen könnte – und welche neuen kollektiven Orte eine Stadt im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung braucht. "Dies ist ein historischer Moment. Daten sind zur wertvollsten Ware der Welt geworden. Wir dürfen sie nicht einer Handvoll Tech-Giganten überlassen. Wir müssen sie als öffentliches Gut begreifen, das neben Straßen, Wasser und sauberer Luft eine Kritische öffentliche Infrastrukturdarstellt. Zu diesem Zweck brauchen wir, was Niklas Maak ein 'Centre Pompidou fürs digitale Zeitalter' nennt." — Francesca Bria
The Architecture Of Deconstruction
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Author : Mark Wigley
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1993
The Architecture Of Deconstruction written by Mark Wigley and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture categories.
By locatingthe architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities for both architectureand deconstruction.
Arts Architecture
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Arts Architecture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Architecture categories.
Multifunctional Land Use
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Author : Ülo Mander
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-05-11
Multifunctional Land Use written by Ülo Mander and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-11 with Political Science categories.
This book is a major contribution to the debate on future land development strategies, as well as helping to supporting land use decision making at all levels. Scientists from across Europe installed the Landscape Tomorrow network to prepare for upcoming challenges in research on sustainable land development. The book’s interdisciplinary perspective analyses, among other things, the general principles of land use multifunctionality and reports on a variety of success stories.
Konrad Wachsmann And The Grapevine Structure
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Author : Marianne Burkhalter
language : en
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
Release Date : 2018
Konrad Wachsmann And The Grapevine Structure written by Marianne Burkhalter and has been published by Park Publishing (WI) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Architects categories.
This book sheds new light on the work of German-born modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann (1901-1980) and his legendary knotted joints. It is based on years of research on Wachsmann's work by Swiss architect Christian Sumi. At the core of this book is Wachsmann's dynamic 'Grapevine Structure', a universal construction element developed with students in the early 1950s at the Chicago Institute of Design. The book also investigates the 'Local Orientation Manipulator' (LOM), an apparatus developed in 1969 by Wachsmann at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles that anticipated the robotic assembly of building components. Moreover, it explores Wachsmann's 'Packaged House System' and his designs for relocatable hangars for the US Air Force. The book features these through concise texts and rich illustrated material, the majority of which are published here for the first time. Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, and Hannes Mayer (Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich) revisit Wachsmann's ideas from a contemporary perspective where robotic building processes become increasingly common. An essay by neuroscientist Andreas Burkhalter looks at the phenomenon of knotted joints in the context of similar structures in the human brain. Architectural historian Marko Pogacnik highlights the significance of Wachsmann's lectures at the Salzburg Summer Academy in the late 1950s.
Sandfuture
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Author : Justin Beal
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-09-14
Sandfuture written by Justin Beal and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Architecture categories.
An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written. Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki’s most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story.
White Walls Designer Dresses
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Author : Mark Wigley
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1995
White Walls Designer Dresses written by Mark Wigley and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Architecture, Modern categories.
This work attempts to provide a new understanding of the historical avant-garde by analyzing the "clothing" of modern architecture. The author examines the relationships between architectural surfaces and clothing fashions and colour.
The Writers Directory
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Writers Directory written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Authors, American categories.