Modern Architecture Through Case Studies

Peter Blundell Jones

256 pages, parution le 26/07/2002

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Résumé

Reappraise the modern movement with this informative, scholarly and insightful text
Learn a new approach to the debates surrounding modern architecture and theory
Case studies illustrate the theory in a clear and accessible style

'The idea of discussing modern architecture through a series of specific built designs seems to me excellent and emphasises the tangible aspect of architecture. It does not prevent making linkages between ideas about buildings but focuses on the fact that most projects are realised in a particular place for a particular client by a particular architect. I am therefore extremely sympathetic to the assumption behind this book' Professor Michael Brawne
'... what I have read is clear, direct, informative, scholarly, designerly and insightful ... I found it to be an optimistic book and therefore one which may have a positive role to play in enhancing the statue of modern architecture'. Dr Julienne Hanson

Peter Blundell Jones details the inadequacy of the first histories of the Modern Movement by revealing the existence of suppressed alternative traditions within the movement and shows their great diversity through the use of case studies. Each case is analysed in detail then used as a springboard to explore different theoretical approaches.

Contents

The Weissenhofsiedlung 1927
Hugo Haring, Garkau Farm, near Lubeck 1923-5
Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus Building, Dessau 1925
Jan Duiker, Zonnestraal Sanatorium, Hilversum 1926
Bruno Taut, Housing at Onkel Toms Hutte, Berlin 1926-30
Erich Mendelsohn, Schocken Store, Stuttgart 1927
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy 1929
Alvar Aalto, Viipuri Library 1928-35
Pier Luigi Nervi, Aircraft hanger, Orvieto 1935
Giuseppe Terragni, Casa del Fascio, Como 1936
Gunnar Asplund, Lawcourts extension, Gothenburg 1913-37
Frank Lloyd Wright, one of his Usonian houses, USA 1938
Hans Scharoun, Mannheim Theatre Project 1953
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, new National Gallery, Berlin 1958-68
Sigurd Lewerentz, St Peter's Church at Klippan 1963
Louis Kahn, Kimbell Art Gallery, Fort Worth 1968
Conclusion.

L'auteur - Peter Blundell Jones

Professor of Architecture, University of Sheffield Western Bank, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Architectural Press
Auteur(s)	Peter Blundell Jones
Parution	26/07/2002
Nb. de pages	256
Format	19,5 x 25,3
Couverture	Relié
Poids	870g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750638050
ISBN13	978-0-7506-3805-0