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The is a monographic study of Sigurd Lewerentz 18851975 one of the major architects of the Swedish Modern School who developed his own distinctive response to the most important architectural movements of the 20th century This volume represents an original and comprehensive study in English with a full analysis of unbuilt projects as well as completed buildings such as the St Knut and St Gertrud Churches in the Malmo Cemetery 1916 the restoration of the Uppsala Cathedral 194755 and the St Peter Church in Klippan 19626 Sigurd Lewerentz was born in Sweden in 1885 He first studied engineering at the Polytechnic in Gotherburg and then architecture at the Art Academy in Stockholm After a period of apprenticeship in Germany he opened a studio with Thorsten Stubelius with whom he worked till 1917 Afterwards he continued his own practice often collaborating with other architects During his long career he realized many different projects and distinguished himself in landscape architecture with works such as the extraordinary project for Stockholm Cemetery realized in collaboration with Gunnar Asplund The first section of the volume includes a critical essay by Colin St John Wilson and a previously unpublished essay on the work of the Swedish master by Nicola Flora Paolo Giardiello and Gennaro Postiglione The central section contains a catalogue of Lewerentzs works about 150 designs and constructions in chronological order are presented through detailed descriptions and illustrations both photographs and drawings A complete list of works and a bibliography based on research in the archives of Stockholms Museum of Architecture conclude the volume
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Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz 18851975 was invited to design a church in the remote southern village of Klippan in 1962 at the age of 77 For architectural pilgrims the Church of St Petri Klippan has since become a counterpoint to the influential Chapel of Notre Dame at Ronchamp 1955 This volume documents Lewerentzs masterpiece
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Part 2 No DJ Non circulating ex University of California Berkeley reference library book with some library markings Light wear Binding is tight text clean
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For 60 years Steele practiced landscape architecture as a fine art designing nearly 700 gardens that form an important link between 19thcentury Beaux Arts formalism and modern landscape design
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Charles L Thompson was a pioneer As a young draftsman in Indiana in 1886 he was offered jobs in New York New Orleans and Little Rock Thompson chose to settle in Little Rock because it was farthest in the wilderness Thompson was one of the most prolific architects of his age During his fiftytwo year career he designed over 2000 commercial institutional and residential buildings in a variety of styles Many of these structures still grace the landscape of the southern United States Thompsons final legacy was the founding and consolidation of an architectural association The dedication and consistency of Thompson and his colleagues gave American architecture professional stability at the turn of the century Thompsons firm one of the largest in the South and oldest in the United States is located in Little Rock and today bears the name of Cromwell Truemper Levy Parker amp Woodsmall Charles L Thompson and Associates Arkansas Architects I885I938 has been produced with the sponsorship of the Quapaw Quarter Association Incorporated in 1968 the Association is one of the largest historic preservation organizations in the midSouth and has actively worked to secure the revitalization of Little Rocks oldest residential and commercial areas
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For sixty years Fletcher Steele practiced landscape architecture as a fine art designing nearly seven hundred gardens from Boston to Detroit from North Carolina to Canada Often brilliant always original Steeles work is considered by many to constitute the essential link between nineteenthcentury Beaux Arts formalism and modern landscape designPublished in association with Library of American Landscape History httplalhorg
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Universally recognized as an architectural center Chicago contains some of the worlds finest buildings by the most renowned architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Sullivan Mies van der Rohe and many more left their stamp on the citys skyline and as a result influenced the practice of architecture across the globe This book published in association with the Chicago Architecture Foundation features an indepth analysis of fortytwo seminal works of Chicago architecture This accessible and engaging volume is the latest addition to the successful Universe Architecture Series Both a guide for those visiting the city and a valuable reference for architecture enthusiasts Chicago Architecture includes residential icons such as Mies van der Rohes 860880 Lake Shore Drive skyscraper prototypes such as Sullivans Schlesinger and Mayer Store Carson Pirie Scott amp Co and engineering masterpieces such as Skidmore Owings amp Merrills Sears Tower
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A vivid stylish and fascinating look at internationally acclaimed architects and their workBeginning in the 1940s John A Russell dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Manitoba nurtured a strong tradition of Modernist design with close connections to architectural giants such as Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius Under Russells guidance a generation of young architects such as James Donahue and David Thordarson adapted the principles of European Modernism to the prairie geography Other nationally renowned architects such as Étienne Gaboury and Gustavo da Roza also left a lasting Modernist mark on Winnipegs skyline and private residencesEdited by Serena Keshavjee and designed by architect Herbert Enns Winnipeg Modern captures the grace and beauty of the Modernist period and includes critical and historical essays on the aesthetic and social project of Modernist architecture in Winnipeg Lavishly illustrated with 300 photographs from provincial archives the private archives of architect Henry Kalen and contemporary photographer Martin Tessler this book is a testament to the Modernist principles of structural expression and purity of form
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Discover the completely unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando the only architect ever to have won the disciplines four most prestigious prizes the Pritzker Carlsberg Praemium Imperiale and Kyoto PrizePhilippe Starck defines him as a mystic in a country which is no longer mystic Philip Drew calls his buildings land art as they struggle to emerge from the earth His designs have been described as haiku crafted from concrete water light and space But to Ando true architecture is not expressed in metaphysics or beauty but rather through space that embodies physical wisdomThis thoroughly updated edition spans the breadth of his entire career including such stunning new projects as the Shanghai Poly Theater and the Clark Center at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown Massachusetts Each project is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings to explore Andos unprecedented use of concrete wood water light space and natural forms Based on the massive XXL monograph this edition brings the architects definitive career overview to an accessible format
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Discover the completely unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando the only architect ever to have won the disciplines four most prestigious prizes the Pritzker Carlsberg Praemium Imperiale and Kyoto PrizePhilippe Starck defines him as a mystic in a country which is no longer mystic Philip Drew calls his buildings land art as they struggle to emerge from the earth His designs have been described as haiku crafted from concrete water light and space But to Ando true architecture is not expressed in metaphysics or beauty but rather through space that embodies physical wisdomThis thoroughly updated edition spans the breadth of his entire career including such stunning new projects as the Shanghai Poly Theater and the Clark Center at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown Massachusetts Each project is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings to explore Andos unprecedented use of concrete wood water light space and natural forms Based on the massive XXL monograph this edition brings the architects definitive career overview to an accessible format
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Throughout his extraordinary career in architecture and interior design Austrian Josef Frank 18851967 charted an original and complex version of modernism that expressed a unique view of the modern home the singlefamily house and its furnishings This book the first in English to analyze and interpret Franks many achievements brings his contributions out of obscurity and reveals the full scope of his alternative interpretation of the modern movementIn addition to ten essays on Franks life and work this book includes illustrations of 135 of Franks architectural furniture and fabric designs shown primarily in color They trace his development as an architect and designer from his early days in Vienna through his years in exile in Stockholm and New York A selected list of his buildings projects and interior designs is found in the appendix The book accompanies an exhibition of the same title mounted in May 1996 at The Bard Graduate Center in New York City
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Throughout his extraordinary career in architecture and interior design Austrian Josef Frank 18851967 charted an original and complex version of modernism that expressed a unique view of the modern home the singlefamily house and its furnishings This book the first in English to analyze and interpret Franks many achievements brings his contributions out of obscurity and reveals the full scope of his alternative interpretation of the modern movement In addition to ten essays on Franks life and work this book includes illustrations of 135 of Franks architectural furniture and fabric designs shown primarily in color They trace his development as an architect and designer from his early days in Vienna through his years in exile in Stockholm and New York A selected list of his buildings projects and interior designs is found in the appendix The book accompanies an exhibition of the same title mounted in May 1996 at The Bard Graduate Center in New York City
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Five Architects originally published in 1975 grew out of a meeting of the CASE group Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969 The purpose of this gathering was to exhibit and criticize the work of five architectsEisenman Graves Gwathmey Hejduk and Meierwho constituted a New York school and who are now among the most influential architects working today The buildings shown here have more diversity than one might expect from a school but share certain properties of form scale and treatment of material Collectively their work makes a modest claim it is only architecture not the salvation of man and the redemption of the earth No matter how varied their individual theories and visions all five architects simply share a passion for the art of architecture Providing complete drawings and photographic documentation this collection also includes a comparative critique by Kenneth Frampton an Introduction by Colin Rowe that suggests a still broader context for the work as a whole and two short texts in which individual positions are outlined Now back in print Five Architects serves as a reference to the early work of some of Americas most important architects and provides us with a glimpse back at the direction of architecture as they saw it twenty years ago
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Five Architects originally published in 1975 grew out of a meeting of the CASE group Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969 The purpose of this gathering was to exhibit and criticize the work of five architectsEisenman Graves Gwathmey Hejduk and Meierwho constituted a New York school and who are now among the most influential architects working today The buildings shown here have more diversity than one might expect from a school but share certain properties of form scale and treatment of material Collectively their work makes a modest claim it is only architecture not the salvation of man and the redemption of the earth No matter how varied their individual theories and visions all five architects simply share a passion for the art of architecture Providing complete drawings and photographic documentation this collection also includes a comparative critique by Kenneth Frampton an Introduction by Colin Rowe that suggests a still broader context for the work as a whole and two short texts in which individual positions are outlined Now back in print Five Architects serves as a reference to the early work of some of Americas most important architects and provides us with a glimpse back at the direction of architecture as they saw it twenty years ago
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Throughout his extraordinary career in architecture and interior design Austrian Josef Frank 18851967 charted an original and complex version of modernism that expressed a unique view of the modern home the singlefamily house and its furnishings This book the first in English to analyze and interpret Franks many achievements brings his contributions out of obscurity and reveals the full scope of his alternative interpretation of the modern movementIn addition to ten essays on Franks life and work this book includes illustrations of 135 of Franks architectural furniture and fabric designs shown primarily in color They trace his development as an architect and designer from his early days in Vienna through his years in exile in Stockholm and New York A selected list of his buildings projects and interior designs is found in the appendix The book accompanies an exhibition of the same title mounted in May 1996 at The Bard Graduate Center in New York City
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