Author | : Meredith L Clausen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2023-08-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004671080 |
Author | : Meredith L Clausen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2023-08-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004671080 |
Author | : LaurenS. Weingarden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351559729 |
For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices - literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic - and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic analysis, and a pragmatic concept of sign-functions, she restores the integrity of Sullivan's artistic choices and his historical position as a culminating figure within nineteenth-century romanticism. By giving equal weight to Louis Sullivan's writings and designs, Weingarden shows how he translated both Ruskin's tenets of Gothic naturalism and Whitman's poetry of the American landscape into elemental structural forms and organic ornamentation. Viewed as a site where various romantic discourses converged, Sullivan's oeuvre demands a cross-disciplinary exploration of each discursive practice, and its "rules of accumulation, exclusion, reactivation." The overarching theme of this study is the interrogation and restitution of those Foucauldian rules that enabled Sullivan to articulate architecture as a pictorial mode of landscape art, which he considered co-equal with the spiritual and didactic functions of landscape poetry.
Author | : Harry Mallgrave |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1996-07-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892362588 |
These essays explore the parameters of Wagner's rich literary and architectural creations.
Author | : Franco Borsi |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mardges Bacon |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This study of one of the most innovative practitioners of the Beaux-Arts movement in America covers Flagg's early training and Beaux-Arts works, his town and country houses, his commercial and utilitarian buildings, the Singer Tower, urban housing reform, and his small houses of modular design.
Author | : Jean-Yves Andrieux |
Publisher | : Université de Saint-Etienne |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9782862723730 |
"Les démarches radicales s'inscrivent souvent dans un espace transcendant. C'est ce qui est arrivé à la modernité architecturale, bien connue pour ses héros, ses icônes, ses manifestes et ses intentions sociales généreuses. Mais comment l'architecture, art de l'utilitas, aurait-elle pu se délier des contraintes du XXe siècle? Elle est bien la fille des mythes, des contradictions, des aspirations et plus encore, des rapports de force en transformation du siècle passé"--
Author | : Martin Bressani |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317179323 |
Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern architecture such as the Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle and Entretiens sur l’architecture, but also studies on warfare, geology and racial history. Martin Bressani expertly traces Viollet-le-Duc’s complex intellectual development, mapping the attitudes he adopted toward the past, showing how restoration, in all its layered meaning, shaped his outlook. Through his life journey, we follow the route by which the technological subject was born out of nineteenth-century historicism.
Author | : Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0892365803 |
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.