Architecture and design in Europe and America, 1750--2000 / edited by Abigail Harrison-Moore and Dorothy C. Rowe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison-Moore, Abigail.

Price, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Cilla), 1969-

Series:

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 4.

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--Europe.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture, Modern--United States.

Design--Europe--History.

Design.

Design--United States--History.

History.

United States.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xix, 515 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Summary:

Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750 -2000 is an unprecedented teaching anthology that surveys the history of European and American architecture and design using both historical and contemporary sources. This ambitious volume brings together the best scholarship on the subject - as it has been taught, thought, and talked about in academic and architectural circles - yet it also reconfigures the canon for teaching purposes by introducing a thematic approach.The book covers three major periods - 1750 -1830, 1830 -1910, and 1910 -2000 - with substantial introductions to each section by the editors. Pairing primary documents with well-known historiographical essays, along with some key but underrepresented works, this book will be especially welcomed by those studying architectural history at the undergraduate level.

Contents:

Introduction: Classifying Knowledge / Dorothy C. Rowe, Abigail Harrison-Moore 1

1 The Architectural Plates from the "Encyclopedie" / Denis Diderot 13

2 The Plates of the Encyclopedia / Roland Barthes 20

3 From The Archaeology of Knowledge / Michel Foucault 25

Part I Knowledge, Taste, and Sublimity, c.1750-1830

4 Palladian Permeation: The Villa / John Summerson 49

5 The Country House: Form, Function and Meaning / Dana Arnold 59

6 Plans and Elevations for the Villa of Lord Mansfield at Kenwood / Robert Adam, James Adam 74

7 From The Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture / Sir John Soane 79

8 From A Description of the Villa / Horace Walpole 85

9 Thomas Jefferson / James Ackerman 90

10 From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful / Edmund Burke 96

11 On Architecture and Buildings / Sir Uvedale Price 99

12 From An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste / Richard Payne Knight 107

13 Iconography and Landscape / Stephen Daniels, Denis Cosgrove 116

14 The Plans and Elevations of John Nash / John Summerson 126

15 Architecture, Essay on Art / Etienne-Louis Boullee 136

16 The Sphere: Reading a Gender Metaphor in the Architecture of Modern Cults of Identity / Susanne von Falkenhausen 144

17 Karl Friedrich Schinkel / David Watkin, Tilman Mellinghoff 163

18 Reading Architectural Herstories: The Disourses of Gender / Dana Arnold 172

Part II Urbanism, Reform, and Revival, c.1830-1910

19 An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England / A. W. N. Pugin 209

20 Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Importance of Method / Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 215

21 From Science, Industry and Art / Gottfried Semper 221

22 The Nature of Gothic / John Ruskin 227

23 The Revival of Architecture / William Morris 233

24 Some Recent Designs by Mr. C. F. A. Voysey 242

25 Style / Louis Sullivan 249

26 Ornament in Architecture / Louis Sullivan 254

27 The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered / Louis Sullivan 258

28 Plasticity / Frank Lloyd Wright 265

29 The Nature of Materials / Frank Lloyd Wright 267

30 Women and Architecture / Lynne Walker 270

31 The Programmes of the Architectural Section of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts / Annie Jacques 284

32 Adler and Sullivan at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago / Zeynep Celik 291

33 Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns / Frederick Law Olmsted 295

34 Paris: Building a European Capital under the Second Empire / Anthony Sutcliffe 300

35 Garden Cities of Tomorrow / Ebenezer Howard 305

36 Modern Systems / Camillo Sitte 309

37 Construction / Otto Wagner 316

Part III Architecture For Tomorrow, c.1910-2000

38 Ornament and Crime / Adolf Loos 348

39 Architecture / Adolf Loos 355

40 Manifesto of Futurist Architecture / Antonio Sant'Elia 364

41 The Turbine Hall of the AEG / Peter Behrens 368

42 The State of German Architecture / Sigfried Giedion 370

43 Programme of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar / Walter Gropius 376

44 Letter to the Younger Generation / Marianne Brandt 379

45 Space (Architecture) / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy 382

46 Where Do We Stand? / Marcel Breuer 385

47 The Problem of a New Architecture / Eric Mendelsohn 390

48 The Creative Spirit of the World Crisis / Eric Mendelsohn 394

49 Solved Problems: A Demand on our Building Methods / Mies van der Rohe 397

50 Explanation of the Educational Program / Mies van der Rohe 399

51 Report of the De Stijl Group / Theo van Doesburg 402

52 From Towards a New Architecture / Le Corbusier 403

53 Architecture in Everything, City Planning in Everything / Le Corbusier 411

54 On Discovering Gaudi's Architecture / Le Corbusier 418

55 The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism / Beatriz Colomina 420

56 Nine Points on Monumentality / Jose Luis Sert, Fernand Leger, Sigfried Giedion 429

57 Monumentality / Louis I. Kahn 434

58 Reaffirmation of the Aims of CIAM / Congress of International Modern Architects 441

59 Functionalism and Technology / Reyner Banham 445

60 The Death of Modern Architecture / Charles Jencks 455

61 Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance / Kenneth Frampton 465

62 The Pleasure of Architecture / Bernard Tschumi 479

63 Scale and Span in a Global Digital World / Saskia Sassen 488.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-507) and index.

ISBN:

1405115300

1405115319

OCLC:

63125952

Publisher Number:

9781405115308

9781405115315