Architecture Culture, 1943-1968
Title | Architecture Culture, 1943-1968 PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Ockman |
Publisher | Rizzoli International Publications |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780847815227 |
Architecture Culture 1943-1968 is an anthology of seventy-four international documents with critical commentary. Both a sourcebook and a companion history of architecture, the volume traces the evolution of modern architecture from the midst of the Second World War to the student revolts of May '68. Many of the selections are from hard-to-find sources, and some are translated into English for the first time. Readers will discover a rich and illuminating array of material from a period crucial to understanding the present time.
Architecture School
Title | Architecture School PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Ockman |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-02-17 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0262017083 |
The first comprehensive history of architecture education in North America, offering a chronological overview and a topical lexicon. Rooted in the British apprenticeship system, the French Beaux-Arts, and the German polytechnical schools, architecture education in North America has had a unique history spanning almost three hundred years. Although architects in the United States and Canada began to identify themselves as professionals by the late eighteenth century, it was not until nearly a century later that North American universities began to offer formal architectural training; the first program was established at MIT in 1865. Today most architects receive their training within an academic setting that draws on the humanities, fine arts, applied science, and public service for its philosophy and methodology. This book, published in conjunction with the centennial of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), provides the first comprehensive history of North American architecture education. Architecture School opens with six chronological essays, each devoted to a major period of development: before 1860; 1860–1920; 1920–1940; 1940–1968; 1968–1990; and 1990 to the present. This overview is followed by a “lexicon” containing shorter articles on more than two dozen topics that have figured centrally in archictecture education's history, from competitions and design pedagogy to research, structures, studio culture, and travel.
The Architecture of the City
Title | The Architecture of the City PDF eBook |
Author | Aldo Rossi |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1984-09-13 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262680431 |
Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture
Title | A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Elie G Haddad |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 539 |
Release | 2014-03-28 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 140943981X |
This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. The first section provides a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a geographic survey that covers a wide range of territories around the world. This book not only reflects the different perspectives of its various authors, but also charts a middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the more 'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussion of its formal aspects.
The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968
Title | The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968 PDF eBook |
Author | Germano Celant |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968 is the first book to bring together all aspects of Italian visual culture from this fascinating period. Through seventeen scholarly essays and hundreds of lavish full-color and duotone reproductions, this volume captures the era's greatest achievements in the fields of painting, sculpture, artists' crafts, literature, photography, cinema, fashion, architecture, and design.
The Pragmatist Imagination
Title | The Pragmatist Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Ockman |
Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781568982878 |
Thirty-three leading thinkers discuss topics such as place and citizenship, technology and its impact on perception, and pragmatist aesthetics.
The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960
Title | The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Paul Mumford |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262632638 |
The first history of the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne traces the development and promotion of its influential concept of the "Functional City."