Modern American Architecture
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Modern American Architecture
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Author : Marcus Fayette Cummings
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
Modern American Architecture written by Marcus Fayette Cummings and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with Architecture categories.
Air Conditioning In Modern American Architecture 1890 1970
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Author : Joseph M. Siry
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Air Conditioning In Modern American Architecture 1890 1970 written by Joseph M. Siry and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Architecture categories.
Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into the culture of architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project. Tracing the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting. Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of modernism. A monumental work by a renowned expert in American modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American history.
Modern Architecture In Latin America
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Author : Luis E. Carranza
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-01-05
Modern Architecture In Latin America written by Luis E. Carranza and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-05 with Architecture categories.
Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to country, but, as a whole, the region produced a significant body of architecture that has never before been presented in a single volume in any language. Modern Architecture in Latin America is the first comprehensive history of this important production. Designed as a survey and focused on key examples/paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this volume covers a myriad of countries; historical, social, and political conditions; and projects/developments that range from small houses to urban plans to architectural movements. The book is structured so that it can be read in a variety of ways—as a historically developed narrative of modern architecture in Latin America, as a country-specific chronology, or as a treatment of traditions centered on issues of art, technology, or utopia. This structure allows readers to see the development of multiple and parallel branches/historical strands of architecture and, at times, their interconnections across countries. The authors provide a critical evaluation of the movements presented in relationship to their overall goals and architectural transformations.
Usa
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Author : Gwendolyn Wright
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2008-02-15
Usa written by Gwendolyn Wright and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-15 with Architecture categories.
From the Reliance Building and Coney Island to the Kimbell Museum and Disney Hall, the United States has been at the forefront of modern architecture. American life has generated many of the quintessential images of modern life, both generic types and particular buildings. Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account of this evolution from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Upending conventional arguments about the origin of American modern architecture, Wright shows that it was not a mere offshoot of European modernism brought across the Atlantic Ocean by émigrés but rather an exciting, distinctive and mutable hybrid. USA traces a history that spans from early skyscrapers and suburbs in the aftermath of the American Civil War up to the museums, schools and ‘green architecture’ of today. Wright takes account of diverse interests that affected design, ranging from politicians and developers to ambitious immigrants and middle-class citizens. Famous and lesser-known buildings across America come together--model dwellings for German workers in rural Massachusetts, New York’s Rockefeller Center, Cincinnati’s Carew Tower, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in the Arizona desert, the University of Miami campus, the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Plant, and the Corning Museum of Glass, among others--to show an extraordinary range of innovation. Ultimately, Wright reframes the history of American architecture as one of constantly evolving and volatile sensibilities, engaged with commerce, attuned to new media, exploring multiple concepts of freedom. The chapters are organized to show how changes in work life, home life and public life affected architecture--and vice versa. This book provides essential background for contemporary debates about affordable and luxury housing, avant-garde experiments, local identities, inspiring infrastructure and sustainable design. A clear, concise and richly illustrated account of modern American architecture, this timely book will be essential for all those who wonder about the remarkable legacy of American modernity in its most potent cultural expression.
A Field Guide To Contemporary American Architecture
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Author : Carole Rifkind
language : en
Publisher: Plume
Release Date : 2001
A Field Guide To Contemporary American Architecture written by Carole Rifkind and has been published by Plume this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.
Leading urbanist Carole Rifkind takes readers on an illuminating tour through half a century of design in this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated book. From private homes and public housing to museums, religious and educational edifices, shopping centers, malls, and office buildings, the accessible text demonstrates the interplay between form and function, and how the uses of space, mass, materials, and ornament have evolved to produce the structures that surround us today. Rifkind also discusses the development of style and analyzes the contributions of more than two hundred architects, as well as the political and economic forces that influenced their work. Filled with over four hundred photographs and line drawings, A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture is an essential reference for both casual observers and serious scholars. Its in-depth exploration of the postwar intellectual, social, and artistic environment offers a unique perspective on our recent past and the forces that shape our modern landscape.
American Architectural History
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Author : Keith Eggener
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
American Architectural History written by Keith Eggener and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
This book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.
Roots Of Contemporary American Architecture
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Roots Of Contemporary American Architecture written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Architecture categories.
The evolution of the American tradition in architecture is related to domestic elements and to forces originating outside the United States.
American Architecture
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Author : Paul Heyer
language : en
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Release Date : 1993
American Architecture written by Paul Heyer and has been published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Architecture categories.
American Architects And Texts
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Author : Juan Pablo Bonta
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1996
American Architects And Texts written by Juan Pablo Bonta and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.
In this volume the author analyzes 400 architectural books and articles published over the past 150 years to reveal changing societal preferences in architecture and to measure the reputations of individual architects - the text includes a ranked list of the 100 most famous architects.
New Directions In American Architecture
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Author : Robert A. M. Stern
language : en
Publisher: George Braziller
Release Date : 1977
New Directions In American Architecture written by Robert A. M. Stern and has been published by George Braziller this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Architecture categories.
The author analyzes the ongoing debate between exclusivists such as Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey, and Peter Eisenman and inclusivists whom he sees as representatives of the first generation of post-moderist architects in America.