#books #architecture | Building a new New World : Amerikanizm in Russian architecture

Building a new New World : Amerikanizm in Russian architecture / Jean-Louis Cohen.
Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2020.
544 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – URSS

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781927071670
Cita APA-7: Cohen, Jean-Louis (2020). Building a new new world : Amerikanizm in Russian architecture. Canadian Centre for Architecture.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72(47) BUI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1182558314

[.en] An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful concept of "Amerikanizm" and its impact on Russia's built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World's Fairs of the 19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.

#books #townplanning | Patch atlas : integrating design practices and ecological knowledge for cities as complex systems

Patch atlas : integrating design practices and ecological knowledge for cities as complex systems / Victoria J. Marshall … [et al.].
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
XI, 116 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Urbanismo – Aspecto del medio ambiente / Urbanismo – Innovaciones

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780300239935
Cita APA-7: Marshall, Victoria J. (2020). Patch atlas : integrating design practices and ecological knowledge for cities as complex systems. Yale University Press.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4:504 PAT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1182010607 

[.en] This atlas is a unique conceptual tool to describe and analyze cities as complex systems, using a new, hybrid approach to urban land cover classification. As an impetus to bring ecologists and urban designers together, it builds on over a decade of shared knowledge from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study to inspire ecologically motivated design practice. Rather than separating human-constructed environments from predominantly biological and geological ones, this book integrates built and ecological structures and shows how this integration can contribute to the scholarship of ecology and the practice of design. The atlas displays maps and tables depicting these hybrid land cover classes and the relationships between them; information on how the specific patch arrangements evolved over time; and speculations on how cover might change through design, disturbance, or succession. Interdisciplinary and strikingly illustrated, the atlas is a new way to study, measure, and view cities with a more effective interaction of scientific understanding and design practice.

#books #architecture | Eyes that saw : architecture after Las Vegas

Eyes that saw : architecture after Las Vegas / Stanislaus Von Moos, Martino Stierli (eds.).
Zurich : Schedeigeer and Spiess/Yale School of Architecture, [2020].
501 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Las Vegas (Nev.) / Robert Venturi

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783858818201
Cita APA-7: Moos, Stanislaus von, & Stierli, Martino (eds.) (2020). Eyes that saw : architecture after Las Vegas. Schedeigeer and Spiess/Yale School of Architecture.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.01 EYE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1159896930

[.en] At the peak of the 1968/69 students' riots at American Universities, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, pursued their Design and Research Studio on the topic of Las Vegas at Yale School of Architecture. The results of this were condensed into the book Learning from Las Vegas that became a classic almost instantly upon its first publication in 1972. The treatise excited the 1970s architecture world and has remained influential to architects, teachers and theoreticians to the present day.

 

Some forty years later, Eyes that Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas offers a richly illustrated collection of essays by renowned scholars of art and architectural history, eminent architects, and artists, investigating Learning from Las Vegas and its heritage from various perspectives. Each chapter builds on the knowledge of the radical influence it had on architecture and urban design, visual art, and even on history more generally. Published alongside are documents from the Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Archive at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an illustrated chronology of the resonance in international media following the publication of Learning from Las Vegas in 1972.

#books #townplanning | The urban improvise : improvisation-based design for hybrid cities

The urban improvise : improvisation-based design for hybrid cities / Kristian Kloeckl.
New Haven [etc] : Yale University Press, 2020.
xii, 222 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Urbanismo – Teoría

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780300243048
Cita APA-7: Kloeckl, Kristian (2020). The urban improvise : improvisation-based design for hybrid cities. Yale University Press.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4.01 URB
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1182006735

[.en] The built environment in today’s hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human activity into spaces that have a more fluid behavior. Based on their capability to sense, compute, and act in real time, urban spaces have the potential to go beyond planned behaviors and, instead, change and adapt dynamically. These interactions resemble improvisation in the performing arts, and this book offers a new improvisation-based framework for thinking about future cities. Kristian Kloeckl moves beyond the smart city concept by unlocking performativity, and specifically improvisation, as a new design approach and explores how city lights, buses, plazas, and other urban environments are capable of behavior beyond scripts. Drawing on research of digital cities and design theory, he makes improvisation useful and applicable to the condition of today’s technology-imbued cities and proposes a new future for responsive urban design.

#books #architecture | Mathias Goeritz : modernist art and architecture in Cold War Mexico

Mathias Goeritz : modernist art and architecture in Cold War Mexico / Jennifer Josten.
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018].
XI, 339 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300228601
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – México / Mathias Goeritz / Modernismo (Arte)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72GOERITZ MAT
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127567798
 

The first major work in English on Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), this book illuminates the artist’s pivotal role within the landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Goeritz became recognized as an abstract sculptor after arriving in Mexico from Germany by way of Spain in 1949. His call to integrate abstract forms into civic and religious architecture, outlined in his “Emotional Architecture” manifesto, had a transformative impact on midcentury Mexican art and design.

 

While best known for the experimental museum El Eco and his collaborations with the architect Luis Barragán, including the brightly colored towers of Satellite City, Goeritz also shaped the Bauhaus-inspired curriculum at Guadalajara’s School of Architecture and the iconic Cultural Program of Mexico City’s 1968 Olympic Games. Josten addresses the Cold War implications of these and other initiatives that pitted Goeritz, an advocate of internationalist abstraction, against Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, ardent defenders of the realist style that prevailed in official Mexican art during the postrevolutionary period. Exploring Goeritz’s dialogues with leading figures among the Parisian and New York avant-gardes, such as Yves Klein and Philip Johnson, Josten shows how Goeritz’s approach to modernism, which was highly attuned to politics and place, formed part of a global enterprise.

#books #architecture | Montage and the metropolis : architecture, modernity, and the representation of space

Montage and the metropolis : architecture, modernity, and the representation of space / Martino Stierli.
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018].
ix, 305 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300221312
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura y sociedad / Espacio (Arquitectura)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.011.2 MON
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1107285358

Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this groundbreaking new work, Martino Stierli charts the history of montage in late 19th-century urban and architectural contexts, its application by the early 20th-century avant-gardes, and its eventual appropriation in the postmodern period. With chapters focusing on photomontage, the film theories of Sergei Eisenstein, Mies van der Rohe’s spatial experiments, and Rem Koolhaas’s use of literary montage in his seminal manifesto ‘Delirious New York’ (1978), Stierli demonstrates the centrality of montage in modern explorations of space, and in conceiving and representing the contemporary city. Beautifully illustrated, this interdisciplinary book looks at architecture, photography, film, literature, and visual culture, featuring works by artists and architects including Mies, Koolhaas, Paul Citroen, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, El Lissitzky, and Le Corbusier.

#books #architecture | Lina Bo Bardi

Lina Bo Bardi / Zeuler R.M. de A. Lima ; foreword by Barry Bergdoll.
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2013.
xvi, 239 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300154269 / 9780300244229
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Brasil / Arquitectura y mujeres / Lina Bo Bardi
ehuBibliotrka BCG A-72BO BARDI LIN
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/880373385

[.en] One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil in 1946, where her practice evolved within the social and cultural realities of her adopted country. While she continued to work with industrial materials, she added simple building techniques and naturalistic forms to her designs, striving to create large, multiuse spaces that promoted public life. Lina Bo Bardi is the first comprehensive study of the architect's life and work. Author Zeuler Lima, the leading authority on Bo Bardi, presents her activities on two continents, examining how ethical and social considerations influenced her intellectual engagement with modern architecture and providing an indispensable guide to her writings and her experimental, iconic designs.

#books #architecture | Wright and New York : the making of America's architect

Wright and New York : the making of America's architect / Anthony Alofsin.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
343 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300238853
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Frank Lloyd Wright / Nueva York
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72WRIGHT WRI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1105925743

[.en] A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city’s role in establishing the career of America’s most famous architect. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors.

Wright denounced New York as an “unlivable prison” even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright’s work in the desert and in the “organic architecture” he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wright’s life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy.

Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the recently opened Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright’s life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.

#books #architecture | Aldo Rossi and the spirit of architecture

Aldo Rossi and the spirit of architecture / Diane Y. F. Ghirardo.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
XIII, 262 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300234930
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX / Aldo Rossi
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72ROSSI ALD
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1103605492

[.en] An essential new look at the Italian architect, writer, and designer whose work paved the way for the postmodern movement.

This crucial reassessment of Aldo Rossi’s (1931–1997) architecture simultaneously examines his writings, drawings, and product design, including the coffeepots and clocks he designed for the Italian firm Alessi. The first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize, Rossi rejected modernism, seeking instead a form of architecture that could transcend the aesthetic legacy of Fascism in postwar Italy. Rossi was a visionary who did not allow contemporary trends to dominate his thinking. His baroque sensibility and poetic approach, found both in his buildings and in important texts like ‘The Architecture of the City’, inspired the critic Ada Louise Huxtable to describe him as “a poet who happens to be an architect.”

Diane Ghirardo explores different categories of structures—monuments, public buildings, cultural institutions, theaters, and cemeteries—drawing significantly on previously unpublished archival materials and always keeping Rossi’s own texts in the forefront. By delving into the relationships among Rossi’s multifaceted life, his rich body of work, and his own reflections, this book provides a critical new understanding of Rossi’s buildings and the place of architecture in postwar Italy.

Diane Y. F. Ghirardo is professor of the history and theory of architecture at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

#books #architecture | Landscapes of modern architecture : Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán

Landscapes of modern architecture : Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán / Marc Treib.
Yale University, New Haven [etc.] : 2016.
268 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300208412
Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX.
Barragán, Luis, 1902-1988.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
Neutra, Richard, 1892-1970.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.036 LAN
https://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1866009~S1*spi

Exploring a range of architectural, philosophical, and theoretical approaches, Treib investigates the site strategies of five prominent modern-period architects: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Richard Neutra (1892–1970), Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), and Luis Barragán (1902–1988).The character of the sites on which these architects worked dramatically affected their architecture and gardens, a fact illustrated by Wright’s “organic” regard of the desert; Mies’s evolving divorce of building from terrain; Neutra’s transformation of the “realities” of the site; Aalto’s use of the forest metaphor and interior landscapes; and Barragán’s architectonic conversion of the land. Fully illustrated with rarely published archival drawings and plans, accompanied by the author’s own exceptional photographs, this book presents the spectrum of architectural responses to the constraints of site, climate, client, program, building material, region, and nation. Taken as a group, the work of these five architects sheds important light on the consideration and influence of the site and landscape on the practice of architecture during the 20th century.

#books #architecture | Frank LLoyd Wright and San Francisco

Frank LLoyd Wright and San Francisco / Paul V. Turner.
Yale University Press, New Haven [etc.] : 2016.
VI, 216 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300215021
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Estados Unidos.
San Francisco (Calif.)
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72WRIGHT FRA
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1854860~S1*spi

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) often spent time in San Francisco, which he called “the most charming city in America.” Paul V. Turner looks at the architect’s complex and evolving relationship with the city, surveying the full body of Wright’s work in the Bay Area—roughly thirty projects, a third of which were built. Spanning 1900 to 1959, they include houses, a gift shop, a civic center, a skyscraper, a church, an industrial building, a mortuary, and a bridge across the San Francisco Bay. The unbuilt structures are among Wright’s most innovative, and the diverse reasons for their failure counter long-held stereotypes about the architect.

Wright’s Bay Area projects are published together here for the first time, along with previously unpublished correspondence between Wright and his clients, as well as his Bay Area associate Aaron Green. Stories from San Francisco newspapers portray the media’s changing positions on Wright—from his early personal scandals to his later roles as eccentric provocateur and celebrated creative genius. Beautifully illustrated with the architect’s original drawings and plans, ‘Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco’ highlights aspects of the architect’s career that have never before been explored, inspiring a new understanding of Wright, his personal and client interactions, and his work.

#books #architecture | Pierre Chareau : modern architecture and design

Pierre Chareau : modern architecture and design / Esther da Costa Meyer ; with essays by, Bernard Bauchet ... [et al.].
Yale University Press, New Haven [etc.] : 2016.
288 p. : il.
Catálogo de la exposición del mismo título organizada por The Jewis Museum de Nueva York, del 4 de noviembre de 2016 al 26 de marzo de 2017.
ISBN 9780300165791
Chareau, Pierre, 1883-1950.
Decoración interior.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-747 PIE
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1854855~S1*spi

A revealing look at the visionary French furniture designer and architect, highlighting his virtuoso designs and versatile creativity The designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) was a pivotal figure in modernism. His extraordinary Art Deco furniture is avidly collected and his visionary glass house, the Maison de Verre, is celebrated, but the breadth of his design genius has been little explored. Chareau linked architecture, fine arts, and style; designed furniture for avant-garde films and chic homes; collected artists such as Picasso and Mondrian; and was a radical innovator in the use of materials. Essays by leading scholars embrace the full scope of his invention, offering detailed analyses of individual projects, the interdisciplinary nature of his work, his Jewish background, his place in the avant-garde of Paris between the wars, and his more recent reception. Extensive illustrations present a rich sampling of Chareau's furniture, architecture, interiors, fabrics, and wallpapers, as well as his own important art collection.

#guides #architecture | Florence : a walking guide to its architecture

Florence : a walking guide to its architecture / Richard J. Goy.
Yale University Press, New Haven [etc.] : 2015.
IX, 398 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300209877
Arquitectura -- Italia.
Arquitectura -- Guías.
Florencia (Italia)
Sbc Aprendizaje | Referencia A-(036)72(450) FLO
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1825943~S1*spi

Each year, millions of visitors travel to Florence to admire the architectural marvels of this famous Renaissance city. In this compact yet comprehensive volume, architect and architectural historian Richard J. Goy offers a convenient, accessible guide to the city’s piazzas, palazzos, basilicas, and other architectural points of interest, as well as pertinent historical details regarding Florence’s unique urban environment.

Clearly laid out and fully illustrated, this handbook is designed around a series of expertly planned walking tours that encompass not only the city’s most admired architectural sites, but also its lesser-known gems. Maps are tailored to each walking tour and provide additional references and insights, along with introductory chapters on the city’s architectural history, urban design, and building materials and techniques. Featuring a complete bibliography, glossary of key terms, and other useful reference materials, Goy’s guide will appeal both to travelers who desire a greater architectural context and analysis than that offered by a traditional guide and to return visitors looking to rediscover Florence’s most enchanting sites.

#books #architecture | James Stirling : revisionary modernist

James Stirling : revisionary modernist / Amanda Reeser Lawrence.

Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut) [etc.] : 2012

ix, 237 p. : il.

ISBN 9780300170054

Stirling, James, 1926-1992.

Modernismo (Arte)

Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Inglaterra.

Sbc Aprendizaje A-72STIRLING JAM

http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1788442~S1*spi

James Stirling (1926–1992) was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation of architects in his native England and throughout the world. “James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist” is the first in-depth, book-length analysis of the architect's work. Amanda Reeser Lawrence focuses on six of Stirling's projects from the early 1950s through the late 1970s, offering detailed formal analysis of the buildings and drawings while also mapping his relationship to a broader architectural and cultural context. Though it is widely held that Stirling took a mid-career turn toward postmodernism, Lawrence shows that he was undeniably modern throughout his career. She clarifies the ways in which Stirling understood modernism as inextricably linked to the past and placed his own work in what he termed a "dialogue with architectural tradition."

Amanda Reeser Lawrence is assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University and is founding coeditor of “Praxis: A Journal of Writing + Building”.