Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II : From le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas
In the first volume of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), Martin Filler examined the emergence of that revolutionary new form of building and explored its aesthetic, social, and spiritual aspirations through illuminating studies of some of its most important practitioners, from Louis Sullivan and...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York : New York Review Books,
2013
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| Schlagworte: | Architecture, Modern Architects Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | In the first volume of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), Martin Filler examined the emergence of that revolutionary new form of building and explored its aesthetic, social, and spiritual aspirations through illuminating studies of some of its most important practitioners, from Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright to, in our own time, Renzo Piano and Santiago Calatrava. Now, in Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II, Filler continues his investigations into the building art, beginning with the historical eclecticism of McKim, Mead, and White, best remembered today for New York City's demolished Pennsylvania Station. He surveys the seemingly inexhaustible flow of new books about Wright and Le Corbusier, and continues his commentaries on Piano's museum buildings with an essay focused on the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum in Los Angeles. There are less well known subjects here too, from the Frankfurt urban planner Ernst May to Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome. Filler judges Edward Durell Stone-the architect of the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, the Huntington Hartford Museum in New York City, and the Kennedy Center in Washington-to have been "a middling product of his times," however personally interesting he may have been. And he looks back at James Stirling, who in the 1970s and 1980s was "a veritable rock star of the profession," responsible for what Filler considers some of the very few worthwhile postmodernist buildings. The essays collected here are not entirely historical, however. Filler also focuses on some of the most recent projects to have attracted critical and popular attention both in the United States and abroad, including Rem Koolhaas's CCTV building in Beijing and Bernard Tschumi's Acropolis Museum in Athens. He argues that Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa's New Museum in New York City is "one of Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White -- 2. Frank Lloyd Wright -- 3. Le Corbusier -- 4. The Bauhaus -- 5. Ernst May and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky -- 6. Oscar Niemeyer -- 7. Edward Durell Stone -- 8. Eero Saarinen -- Photo Insert -- 9. R. Buckminster Fuller -- 10. Carlo Scarpa -- 11. James Stirling -- 12. Renzo Piano -- 13. Rem Koolhaas -- 14. Bernard Tschumi -- 15. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien -- 16. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa -- 17. Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro -- 18. Snøhetta -- 19. Michael Arad -- Illustration Credits. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781590177013 1590177010 9781590176887 159017688X |