Lessons from modernism : environmental design strategies in architecture, 1925-1970 / Kevin Bone, editor with Steven Hillyer and Sunnie Joh ; essays by Daniel A. Barber, Michael Ben-Eli, Alan Berman, Kevin Bone, David Rifkind, Carl Stein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barber, Daniel A., writer of added text.

Ben-Eli, Michael, writer of added text.

Berman, Alan, writer of added text.

Rifkind, David, 1968- writer of added text.

Stein, Carl, writer of added text.

Bone, Kevin, editor.

Hillyer, Steven, editor.

Joh, Sunnie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Sustainable architecture.

Physical Description:

223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Monacelli Press, 2014.

Summary:

This valuable reference for today's green building movement examines twentieth-century modern architecture, including buildings by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, through the lens of sustainability.

Contents:

Lessons from modernism / Kevin Bone

Reviewing modernism through the lens of sustainability / David Rifkind

Climate map with projects

New dwellings for Bordeau / Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret

Open-air school / Johannes Duiker

Night shelter for the homeless / Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Gerson Ponpeu Pinheiro

Karuizawa summer house / Antonin Raymond

Weekend house / Albert Frey, A. Lawrence Kocher

Housing at Sunila Pulp Mill / Alvar Aalto

Jacobs house I / Frank Lloyd Wright

Houses in space / Amancio Williams

House over the brook / Amancio Williams

Jacobs house II / Frank Lloyd Wright

Building for the Emprezas Gráficas o Cruizeiro / Oscar Niemeyer

Maison Tropicale / Jean Prouvé Workshops

Soholm 1 / Arne Jacobsen

Bachelor flats / Bronek Katz, Reginald Vaughan

Dexter M. Ferry Jr. cooperative house / Marcel Breuer

Walker beach house / Paul Rudolph

Munkegaard Elementary School / Arne Jacobsen

Cocoon house / Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell

Pavilion on the Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas / Affonso Eduardo Reidy

Valéria P. Cirell house / Lina Bo Bardi

Siedlung Halen / Atelier 5

School of Plastic Arts, National Arts School / Ricardo Porro

House on a cycladic island / Iannis Xenakis

House II in Kavouri / Constantinos Decavallas

Vacation house on Aegina / Constantinos Decavallas

Timeline, selected projects, 1925-1970

Lessons from Lessons from Modernism / Daniel A. Barber

Modern legacy/sustainable culture / Carl Stein

The search for a healthy living and the roots of modernism / Alan Berman

Towards a new architecture? / Michael Ben-Eli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781580933841

158093384X

OCLC:

869787947

Publisher Number:

99958412450