Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

Das Buch beleuchtet zwei zentrale Denkweisen: Josef Hoffmann (1870 1956) wollte eine umfassende Astheti-sierung aller Lebensbereiche, wahrend Adolf Loos (1870 1933) Architektur und Design als funktionalen Hin-tergrund interpretierte. In Essays und grosszugigen Tafelteilen werden nicht nur Hauptwerke von Hoffmann und Loos, sondern auch ihrer Vorganger wie Otto Wagner und Nachfolger wie Josef Frank illustriert.

Mit Josef Frank (1885-1967) widmet sich der Katalog zur Ausstellung im MAK, Wien, einem der bedeutendsten osterreichischen Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Neben dem wegweisenden architektonischen Werk geht es dabei insbesondere um Frank als einem zwar skeptischen und kulturkritischen, aber auerst produktiven Gestalter, dem das internationale Design bis heute wichtige Impulse verdankt. Als auch gegenwartig noch "zeitgenossischer" Architekt und "Designer" vertrat Frank einen pragmatischen Gestaltungsansatz und pladierte fur eine "normale" - aber keinesfalls normative - Architektur und...

Of the many recipients of federal support during the Great Depression, the citizens of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, stand out as model reminders of the vital importance of New Deal programs. Hoping to transform their desperate situation, the two hundred and fifty families of this western Pennsylvania town worked with the federal government to envision a new kind of community that would raise standards of living through a cooperative lifestyle and enhanced civic engagement. Their efforts won them a nearly mythic status among those familiar with Norvelt's history.

Hope in Hard Times...

In American Imperial Pastoral, Rebecca Tinio McKenna examines the design,...

Of the many recipients of federal support during the Great Depression, the citizens of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, stand out as model reminders of the vital importance of New Deal programs. Hoping to transform their desperate situation, the 250 families of this western Pennsylvania town worked with the federal government to envision a new kind of community that would raise standards of living through a cooperative lifestyle and enhanced civic engagement. Their efforts won them a nearly mythic status among those familiar with Norvelt's history.

Hope in Hard Times explores the...

Taking as a guide Banham's habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham's early engagement with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson, his measured enthusiasm for the "clip-on" approach developed by Cedric Price and the Archigram group, his advocacy of "well-tempered...

Harrie T. Lindeberg (1880-1959) was born of Swedish immigrants who settled in New Jersey. He apprenticed with architect George A. Freeman, joined the prestigious firm McKim, Mead & White in 1901, and forged out on his own in 1906, beginning fifty years of independent practice. An impressive client list includes the leading American families--Du Pont, Havemeyer, Doubleday--for whom he built...