Von Sharawaggi bis Civilia. Die optische Konstruktion des Stadtraums und The Architectural Review

2019 ◽  
pp. 213-225
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Review

scholarly journals A matemática da villa ideal

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Architectural Review ◽  
The Ideal

A seção Arquivo neste número traz a tradução do clássico texto de Colin Rowe - The mathematics of the ideal Villa – publicado originalmente em Março de 1947 na revista Architectural Review, depois abre a coletânea de textos intitulada The mathematics of the ideal Villa and other essays, publicada pela MIT Press, em 1982, e, republicado em 1999, pela mesma MIT Press, em um dos três volumes que formam As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays, Collected essays, letters, and papers. O artigo talvez seja dos mais importantes documentos críticos publicados no século XX, cuja acurada comparação entre as ordens compositivas da Villa Malcontenda, de Palladio, e da Villa Garches, de Le Corbusier, estendeu os limites da reflexão acerca do objeto arquitetônico moderno logo após o término da Segunda Guerra Mundial. O direito de reprodução nos foi obtido junto ao MIT Press. A atualidade dos argumentos do texto original e a pertinência da tradução feita por Aurora Neiva, revisada de Rachel Coutinho M. da Silva, nos parece notória.

scholarly journals The South Bank Exhibition, Londres 1951: un análisis desde The Architectural Review

ZARCH ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Carlos Montes Serrano ◽  
Víctor Lafuente Sánchez ◽  
Daniel López Bragado
Keyword(s):  
Master Plan ◽  
The South ◽  
Festival Of Britain ◽  
New Brutalism ◽  
Architectural Review ◽  
Reyner Banham

La exposición Festival of Britain de Londres de 1951 ocupa un destacado lugar en la historia de la arquitectura inglesa de la postguerra por ser el punto de arranque de la recuperación urbana del South Bank de Londres. Tuvo un gran apoyo y protagonismo en The Architectural Review, que publicó varios artículos y un número monográfico con el fin de mostrar como el master plan de la exposición se ajustaba a los ideales del Visual Planning y del Townscape que la revista venía difundiendo desde hacía unos años. Pero también fue criticada por un grupo de jóvenes arquitectos liderados por Reyner Banham que como reacción propondrían una arquitectura alternativa que fue denominada como el New Brutalism.

scholarly journals Vulgar Modernism: J. M. Richards, Modernism and the Vernacular in British Architecture

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 229-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The World ◽  
Architectural Review ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
British Architecture ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reyner Banham

In 1946 J. M. Richards, editor of theArchitectural Review (AR)and self-proclaimed champion of modernism, published a book entitledThe Castles on the Ground(Fig. 1). This book, written while working for the Ministry of Information (Mol) in Cairo during the war, was a study of British suburban architecture and contained long, romantic descriptions of the suburban house and garden. Richards described the suburb as a place in which ‘everything is in its place’ and where ‘the abruptness, the barbarities of the world are far away’. For this reasonThe Castles on the Groundis most often remembered as a retreat from pre-war modernism, into nostalgia for mock-Tudor houses and privet hedges. The writer and critic Reyner Banham, who worked with Richards at the AR in the 1950s, described the book as a ‘blank betrayal of everything that Modern Architecture was supposed to stand for’. More recently, however, it has been rediscovered and reassessed for its contribution to mid-twentieth-century debates about the relationship between modern architects and the British public. These reassessments get closer to Richards’s original aim for the book. He was not concerned with the style of suburban architecture for its own sake, but with the question of why the style was so popular and what it meant for the role of modern architects in Britain and their relationship to the ‘man in the street’.

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