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Author
Publisher
Mouton
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
"This book is an attempt to relate architectural aesthetics to social history. In the first part a set of theoretical and classificatory principles is developed, which is applied in the second part to nine historical buildings." -- jacket copy.
Author
Series
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process and presentation, provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum." --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this comic novel, our hero, Midwesterner Louie Hake, tries to prop up the failing prospects of happiness in his career and marriage by setting out abroad on what he calls his Journey of a Lifetime. Louie is 43, teaches architecture at a third-rate college in Michigan, and faced with a collapsing second marriage and a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis, he decides to undertake a high-minded tour of the world's most spectacular architecture...
Author
Series
Bauhausbücher ; 14
Publisher
Lars Müller Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Published in 1929, 'From Material to Architecture' contains the main features of László Moholy-Nagy's teaching program at the Bauhaus. With its focus on the preliminary course, this last book of the 14-volumes series explains how students develop towards practice from day to day. The educational principle behind it, Jedermann ist begabt (everyone is talented), was central to teaching at the Bauhaus from 1919 to its conclusion in 1933. Moholy-Nagy's...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate architectural practice to evolving scientific knowledge about humans and environments, thus elevating the discipline's stature and enmeshing their work in a progressive restructuring of society. This political and scientific effort was called 'environmental design',...
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A hands-on introduction to drawing and architecture for kids 8 to 12
Architects play an important role in helping buildings, cities, and communities thrive. If you're interested in architecture, Architecture for Kids will introduce you to all of the most important terms and skills every aspiring architect needs. You'll explore how ideas and drawings become real buildings and learn how architects see the world from new perspectives, including with...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings--Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am--but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was at the center of European modernism and avant-garde society glamor, only to be exiled to the antimodernist United Kingdom during the Nazi...
