First House
(Sprache: Englisch)
First House examines the first works of key architects from the Modern Movement who taught or studied at Harvard between the late 1930s and early 1950s. With sections on such legendary figures as Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, and I. M. Pei, the book...
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First House examines the first works of key architects from the Modern Movement who taught or studied at Harvard between the late 1930s and early 1950s. With sections on such legendary figures as Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, and I. M. Pei, the book includes discussion interviews, which provide insight into their theories as well as brilliant, contemporary color photographs of key Modern Movement homes. Also included are drawings, detailed project descriptions, and even details concerning the cost of each building. With exclusive material compiled especially for this book, First House is a fascinating look into the mind and early influential work of members of the Modern Movement.
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In 1937, two of the foremost figures in Germany's celebrated school of modern design, the Bauhaus - Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius - fled the political turmoil of their native country and headed for the shores of America. This move was to have a profound effect on American architecture. The émigre architects began their new careers teaching at Harvard, and in this way had a direct impact on those students who were soon to become the most influential American architects of their generation.This book examines the first houses of a selection of the soon-to-be-famous Harvard architecture students of the 1930s to 1950s: Edward Larrabee Barnes, Ulrich Franzen, John Johansen,Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, I M Pei, Paul Rudolph. As well as presenting detailed accounts of the houses themselves, First House includes essays and interviews with the figures involved, providing a unique insight into this key moment in architecture - the meeting point between the idealism of European modernism and the pragmatism of American culture.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „First House “
Part I: The Bauhaus influence and Harvard's first modern architects- Introduction: on the pendulum or at the fulcrum?
- Gropius and Breuer: opposite sides of the same coin
- Barnes: the puzzle of post-war housing
- Franzen: the hut and the machine
- Johansen: the figure within the field
- Philip Johnson assisted by Landis Gores: two roads diverged within a wood
- Noyes: the perfect student
- Pei: memory of a garden
- Rudolph: the prodigal son return
Part II: Spreading the word, far and wide: the influence on other designers
- Stoller: photographer as modern architect
- Blake: writer as modern architect
- Scully: historian as modern architect
- Afterword by Philip Johnson
- Appendix
- Timeline
- Published Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- End Piece
Autoren-Porträt von Christian Bjone
Christian Bjone ist praktizierender Architekt und hat an der renommierten Princeton University studiert. Zunächst im Büro von Philip Johnson tätig, arbeitet er heute als Projektmanager für SBLM Architects, New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christian Bjone
- 2002, 224 Seiten, Maße: 31,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0470845384
- ISBN-13: 9780470845387
Sprache:
Englisch
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"...beautifully produced, clever and thoughtful..." (The 20th Century Society Newsletter, September 2002)"...shows the pleasure of discovery that the author obviously experienced doing research for the book..." (DOCOMO, Winter 2002)
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