History of Modern Architecture. Volume 1, The Tradition of Modern Architecture; volume 2, The Modern Movement

1974 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Donald Hoffmann ◽  
Leonardo Benevolo
Keyword(s):  
Modern Architecture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Movement

Female Architecture

2015 ◽  
pp. 510-549
Author(s):  
Alice Franchina ◽  
Francesco Maggio ◽  
Starlight Vattano
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Modern Movement

The objective of this study is that one, starting from the initial considerations, to give back to the history of architecture, through drawing as a critical means of inquiry, the thought and work of some women-architect who, between 1926 and 1962, have designed and/or built buildings of fine architectural quality. The critical re-drawing, which in this case is mimetic to the construction of the project, wants to make manifest the thought of some figures of the Modern Movement often relegated to an unknown fate; in particular it analyses a part of the activity of Lilly Reich, Helena Niemirowska Syrkus and Charlotte Perriand. The study aims to build a graphic inedited and exhaustive repertory of some unrealized projects, carried out by these women that can be defined “pioneer” of modern architecture, giving back a female thought of the project's construction. The drawing of architecture, as ambit of critical analysis, in this study assumes a substantial role when it investigates the project which is the central place of its true expression.

Female Architecture

2019 ◽  
pp. 1193-1232
Author(s):  
Alice Franchina ◽  
Francesco Maggio ◽  
Starlight Vattano
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Modern Movement

The objective of this study is that one, starting from the initial considerations, to give back to the history of architecture, through drawing as a critical means of inquiry, the thought and work of some women-architect who, between 1926 and 1962, have designed and/or built buildings of fine architectural quality. The critical re-drawing, which in this case is mimetic to the construction of the project, wants to make manifest the thought of some figures of the Modern Movement often relegated to an unknown fate; in particular it analyses a part of the activity of Lilly Reich, Helena Niemirowska Syrkus and Charlotte Perriand. The study aims to build a graphic inedited and exhaustive repertory of some unrealized projects, carried out by these women that can be defined “pioneer” of modern architecture, giving back a female thought of the project's construction. The drawing of architecture, as ambit of critical analysis, in this study assumes a substantial role when it investigates the project which is the central place of its true expression.

scholarly journals The Bauhaus Pots and Cups Express the Spirit of the Twentieth Century: Design in Art History and Pevsner's Definition of the Modern Movement

Res Mobilis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Rebeka Vidrih
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Art History ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Design ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Modern Movement

Nikolaus Pevsner’s Pioneers of Modern Movement is considered the foundational text of two new historical fields, the history of modern architecture and the history of design. This contribution, nevertheless, discusses this text in the context of art-historical discipline. Pevsner himself namely understood his work as a complement to Kunstgeschichte: by defining the ‘Modern Movement’ in established art-historical terms and also by discussing not only architecture but attempting to define the style and the worldview expressed in it for the whole period and all of visual arts. Specifically, this contribution is interested in the place that Pevsner allocated to the design within his art-historical edifice, since inclusion of objects of everyday use within an art-historical study was not (and still is not) usual. For Pevsner, on the contrary, design (linked to architecture) turns out to be a key component of his narrative, even if not for aesthetic but rather for moral or social reasons.

Architecture, Modernism and Nation-Building in Kemalist Turkey

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 37-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibel Bozdoğan
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Critical Force ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
The Social ◽  
Great Transformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

Deeply rooted in “the great transformation” brought about by capitalism, industrialization and urban life, the history of modern architecture in the West is intricately intertwined with the rise of the bourgeoisie. Modernism in architecture, before anything else, is a reaction to the social and environmental ills of the industrial city, and to the bourgeois aesthetic of the 19th century. It emerged first as a series of critical, utopian and radical movements in the first decades of the twentieth century, eventually consolidating itself into an architectural establishment by the 1930s. The dissemination of the so-called “modern movement” outside Europe coincides with the eclipse of the plurality and critical force of early modernist currents and their reduction to a unified, formalist and doctrinaire position.

Pyongyang Modern: Architecture of Multiplicity in Postwar North Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-296
Author(s):  
Cheehyung Harrison Kim
Keyword(s):  
North Korea ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Postwar Reconstruction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architectural Development

Abstract This article explores North Korea’s postwar reconstruction through the variegated features of architectural development in Pyongyang. The rebirth of Pyongyang as the center of both state authority and work culture is distinctly represented by architecture. In this setting, architecture as theory and practice was divided into two contiguous and interconnected types: monumental structures symbolizing the utopian vision of the state and vernacular structures instrumental to the regime of production in which the apartment was an exemplary form. The author makes three claims: first, Pyongyang’s monumental and vernacular architectural forms each embody both utopian and utilitarian features; second, the multiplicity of meaning exhibited in each architectural form is connected to the transnational process of bureaucratic expansion and industrial developmentalism; and third, North Korea’s postwar architectural history is a lens through which state socialism of the twentieth century can be better understood—not as an exceptional moment but as a constituent of globalized modernity, a historical formation dependent on the collusive expansion of state power and industrial capitalism. A substantial part of this article is a discussion of the methods and sources relevant to writing an architectural history of North Korea.

scholarly journals On The Burning Child: A Conversation with Joseph Koerner

October ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 5-44
Author(s):  
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Personal Journey ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
History Of

Benjamin Buchloh speaks with art historian Joseph Koerner about his first major film, The Burning Child (2014–2017). Written, directed, and produced by Koerner, the film tracks his search for the fate of his grandparents and their Viennese home, known only through a painting done by his exiled father in 1944, and traces the systematic destruction of the Jewish population in Vienna during the Nazi occupation. Koerner interweaves his personal journey with an investigation into the history of the Viennese interior and the birth of modern architecture through interviews with historians, architects, and artists. Koerner and Buchloh discuss the making of the film; its formal structure, major sites, and main characters; and how it grapples with urgent questions of memory, trauma, belonging, and the concept of home.

The Wainwright Building:

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-447
Author(s):  
Paula Lupkin
Keyword(s):  
White Collar ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Local History ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Brewing Industry ◽  
Story Structure ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Storage Structures

Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building has long occupied a central place in the history of modern architecture. In The Wainwright Building: Monument of St. Louis's Lager Landscape, Paula Lupkin reexamines the canonical “first skyscraper” as a different type of monument: the symbolic center of St. Louis's “lager landscape.” Viewed through the lenses of patronage and local history, this ten-story structure emerges as the white-collar hub of one of the city's most important cultural and economic forces: brewing. Home to the city's brewery architects and contractors, a brewing consortium, and related real estate and insurance companies, the building, as Ellis Wainwright conceived it, served as the downtown headquarters of the brewing industry. Echoing the brewery stock house as well as cold storage structures and ornamented with motifs of lager's most expensive ingredient, hops, the building's design incorporated both the natural and technological elements of brewing. Analyzing the Wainwright Building as part of a lager landscape adds new dimension and significance to Sullivan's masterpiece.

Metal Coat of Modern Architecture

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 1379-1382
Author(s):  
Tie Xin Dong
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Steel Structure ◽  
Structural Materials ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Office Buildings ◽  
Metal Material ◽  
History Of

There has been a long history of applying metal to architecture. At the beginning, they just appeared in the structure of bridges, factories and storages, and then gradually turned up as a form of building structural materials in civil architecture such as markets, schools and office buildings. So all the time, metal like steel structure or hardware impresses people as a kind of industrialized building materials. With the development of architectural technology and the researching of characteristics of building materials, metal material has been brought in building skin design with brand-new appearance, and coruscate new vitality in the field of architectural design depending on full of variety of expressions and economic environmental character.

scholarly journals Modern Architecture and Luxury: Aesthetics and the Evolution of the Modern Subject

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Keyword(s):  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Interpretation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Canonical Interpretation

A book review of Robin Schuldenfrei, Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900–1933 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). This book challenges the canonical interpretation of two of the most revered institutions in the history of modern architecture—the Werkbund and the Bauhaus—and presents a critical interpretation of the relationship between modern architecture and luxury, which first appeared a generation ago.

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