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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Individual architects
An important part of the built heritage of the Northern Highlands
is Victorian and Edwardian. Andrew Maitland, two sons and a
grandson, architects based in Tain, made significant contributions
across the region - including farm buildings, churches, shooting
lodges, hotels, courthouses, town halls, commercial buildings,
villas and whisky distilleries, including Glenmorangie, where they
played a pivotal role. Tain itself became a place of rare charm and
beauty. Hamish Mackenzie has researched the people who commissioned
the Maitlands and why they did so. He brings to life a fascinating
variety of characters against a backdrop of social, religious,
political and technological change.
Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential
Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has
existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works
and writing. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern
Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant
yet overlooked modernist architects, this book examines Fisker's
key projects - from his early railway stations and innovative
housing projects to the Danish Academy in Rome - and analyses his
work as a historian and writer. Fisker's output is closely
associated with the functional tradition, a hybridization of
international modernism and regional architectural typologies, and
this book shows how his architectural poetics can be understood as
an amalgamation of an ideal order with the contingent conditions of
landscapes and urban sites. Hybridization is not only a valuable
notion for understanding Fisker, the book argues, it can also be
applied to an understanding of modernist architecture as a whole,
with its various expressions, agendas and tensions both regionally
and internationally.
Michael Wilford: Buildings and Projects 1992-2012 is written by
Robert Maxwell, Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Princeton
University, and author and academic Professor Anthony Vidler, Dean
of Cooper Union School of Architecture. Original writing by Michael
Wilford is also included, presenting the architect's work, together
with his partners Laurence Bain, Russell Bevington, and Manuel
Schupp, in detail from both a historical and theoretical
perspective. Michael Wilford: Buildings and Projects 1992-2012
features well-known projects including The Lowry and British
Embassy in Berlin alongside hitherto largely unpublished projects
such as The Singapore National Arts Center and Abando Transport
Interchange in Bilbao.
In 1960 Michael Wilford joined the practice created by James
Stirling and James Gowan in 1956. The Stirling/Wilford partnership
was established in 1971 and continued until James Stirling's death
in 1992, after which Michael Wilford continued the trajectory of
the earlier work, whilst creating a clear identity post-Stirling.
Michael Wilford's work has gained international renown and includes
significant public buildings such as performing art centres, art
galleries, business headquarters, museums and libraries located
around the world. Continuing in the tradition of the 'Black' and
'White' books (James Stirling Buildings and Projects 1950-1974, and
James Stirling Michael Wilford Buildings and Projects 1975-1992),
produced by James Stirling and Michael Wilford in 1975 and 1994,
Michael Wilford: Buildings and Projects 1992-2012 brings up to date
Wilford's legacy with respect to contemporary British and
international architecture.
Percy Leonard James was one of Victoria, British Columbia's
pre-eminent architects through the early decades of the twentieth
century. This well-researched biography, written by his daughter,
chronicles James' personal and professional life from his early
days in England to his becoming one of Victoria's most influential
designers. As James' work is often overshadowed by his contemporary
architects, Samuel Maclure and Francis Mawson Rattenbury, this book
is long overdue and, in some instances, sets the record straight.
Felix Nussbaum (1904-44) was a German painter of Jewish descent,
murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis. After more than four decades in
oblivion, his native city Osnabruck in northern Germany brought
this distinguished artist to light again by opening a museum
dedicated to his oeuvre, the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus. The artist's
work, life, and fate resonates in this expressive structure that
was designed by celebrated American architect Daniel Libeskind.
German artist Brigitte Waldach, born 1966, has produced an
impressive body work, mainly of large-format drawing and voluminous
installations. Existenz (existence) she conceived especially for
Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, where it has been on display since December
2018. It consists of three-dimensional drawings, excerpts from
Nussbaum's letters, and a sound collage, involving the viewer in a
dialogue with his paintings. This book documents the environment
Waldach has created within Libeskind's architecture to reflect upon
and experience Felix Nussbaum's art from our contemporary
perspective. Text in English and German.
Few artists have ever been so beloved—or so controversial among
art critics—as Andrew Wyeth. The groundbreaking
book Artists of Wyeth Country presents an unauthorized
and unbiased biographical portrait of Wyeth, based on interviews
with family, friends, neighbors—even actress Eva Marie
Saint. Journalist W. Barksdale Maynard shines new light on
the reclusive artist, emphasizing Wyeth’s artistic debt to Howard
Pyle as well as his surprising interest in surrealism. The
book is filled with brand-new information and fresh
interpretations. Â Artists of Wyeth
Country also comprises the first-ever guidebook
to the artistic world of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, center of the
Brandywine Tradition begun by Howard Pyle. Six in-depth tours
for walking or driving allow the reader to stand exactly where N.
C. and Andrew Wyeth stood, as has never been fully possible before.
 As Maynard explains, Andrew Wyeth’s artistic process was
influenced by Henry David Thoreau’s nature-worship and by his
habit of walking daily. Newly commissioned maps, rare aerial
photographs, as well as glorious full-color images and artworks of
the landscape (many never reproduced before) illustrate the text.
 A fascinating exploration of the world of Andrew
Wyeth, Artists of Wyeth Country is sure to become an
essential new source for those who love American art as well as for
admirers of the scenic landscapes of the Mid-Atlantic, of which the
Brandywine Valley is an exceptional example. As a rare,
unauthorized biography of Andrew Wyeth, it opens the door for an
entirely new understanding of the American master. Â Â
From the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a
fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect
of the twentieth century. Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le
Corbusier-a man who invented new ways of building and thinking.
Modern Man is a penetrating psychological portrait of a true genius
and constant self-inventor, as well as a sweeping tale filled with
exotic locales, sex and celebrity (he was a lover of Josephine
Baker), and high-stakes projects. In Flint's telling, Corbusier
isn't just the grandfather of modern architecture but a man who
sought to remake the world according to his vision, dispelling the
Victorian style and replacing it with something never seen before.
His legacy remains controversial today, as the world grapples with
how to house its skyrocketing urban population and the cult of the
"starchitect" continues to grow. Modern Man is for readers
fascinated by the complex personal lives and outsized visions of
both groundbreaking artists and dazzling, charismatic innovators
like Steve Jobs.
The European Nomadic Biennial Manifesta takes place every two years
in a different European city. The biennial rethinks the relations
between culture and society, investigating and catalyzing positive
social change in Europe through contemporary culture in a
continuous dialogue with its host city. Manifesta's founding
director, Hedwig Fijen invited the architectural bureau MVRDV led
by Winy Maas to develop an urban research of the city of Marseille.
This new methodology, is a manner to decipher the complex settings
of the cities that invite the biennial. In the study, multilayered
structures of religion, ethnicity, geography, culture and politics
are explored. Breaking away from its particular focus on art and
culture, Manifesta has become an interdisciplinary and
participatory program that aims to embrace holistic approaches that
are uniting political, cultural and ecological questions within the
host city.
The pioneering British modernist architect Richard Seifert was one
of the most successful and influential architects of his
generation. During the 1960s and '70s he changed the face and
fabric of London with a powerful series of highly visible and
uncompromising brutalist buildings, including - most famously -
Centre Point, the Nat West Tower and King's Reach Tower. Seifert is
often described as a modernist version of Christopher Wren in terms
of his impact upon the capital, building hundreds of towers, office
buildings and hotels in London but also working in other parts of
the UK and internationally. An enigmatic and determined figure,
Seifert achieved much in his lifetime yet has remained a
controversial and divisive figure due to his unwavering commitment
to modernism. Both Seifert and his buildings have been attacked,
with his work described as 'notorious' for its brutalist aesthetic
and an arguable lack of contextuality. Yet in recent years there
has been a noticeable upsurge of interest in brutalist architecture
in general along with the beginnings of a re-evaluation of
Seifert's extraordinary contribution to mid-century architecture
and design: a number of buildings by Seifert and his associates
have been listed in recognition of their architectural importance.
Beautifully illustrated, this book records, analyses and celebrates
a considered selection of Seifert's buildings, including Centre
Point, the Nat West and King's Reach Towers, Space House, the
Euston Station Buildings, the Park Lane Tower Hotel, Drapers
Gardens, the International Press Centre, all in London, Wembley
Conference Centre and Sussex Heights in Brighton, within the most
extensive survey of his work to date.
The first monograph of the California firm whose regional
sensibility and early attention to sustainable design anticipated
the prevalent trends in residential architecture today. A generous
look at the San Francisco Bay Area architects' pioneering approach
to sustainable houses, ranging from the vineyard regions of
California to Telluride, Colorado; the rugged ranch lands of
Montana and the picturesque hamlets of the Hudson Valley and
Martha's Vineyard. Since its formation in 1981, Fernau + Hartman
has become renowned for its imaginative expansion of the
possibilities of site- and region-specific architecture. Leaders in
these concepts, as well as in sustainable design long before its
currency today, Fernau + Hartman's houses maximize the connection
between the natural and built environments, intensify the
experience of place, and invite an open, playful, and inventive
approach to life. A Newport Beach weekend house has flexible
sleeping quarters and almost everything else (spaces for cooking,
eating, showering, and bathing) is outdoors; a house made of
alternating indoor and outdoor rooms climbs up a Sonoma County
hillside; and an island house inspired by the fishing village of
Menemsha is composed as three independent gabled "sheds" docked at
a central screened porch featuring a fireplace and dining table.
With essays by Beth Dunlop, Laura Hartman, Thomas Fisher, and
Daniel P. Gregory, Improvisations on the Land creates a
multifaceted portrait of the firm's history, philosophy, and
practice - revealing as much about their process as the finished
houses themselves. Models, axonometric drawings, floor and site
plans, elevations, and photographs of vernacular structures - from
a collapsed barn in Montana, to Colorado mining compounds and a
louvered colonnade in the Sacramento River Delta - contribute to a
full appreciation of Fernau + Hartman's work, how its sense of
spontaneity and joy provides the antidote to so much of the
self-conscious architecture that surrounds us, and results in
houses that push the possibilities of residential design today.
ABS Bouwteam is a high-end contractor of exclusive residential
projects: villas, country houses and mansions in timeless and
contemporary style. This first monograph highlights the most
important projects by the company, with an overview of 30 years of
exceptional architecture and interior design.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
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Lina Bo Bardi is regarded as one of the most important architects
in Brazil's history. Beginning her career as a Modernist architect
in Rome, Bo Bardi and her husband emigrated to Brazil following the
end of WWII. Bo Bardi quickly resumed her practice in her adopted
homeland with architecture that was both modern and firmly rooted
in the culture of Brazil. In 1951 she designed "Casa de Vidro"
("Glass House"), her first built work, where she and her husband
would live for the rest of their lives. She also designed the Museu
de Arte de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo Art Museum), a landmark of Latin
American modernist architecture which opened in 1968. It was for
this museum she created the iconic glass easel display system,
which remains radical to date. This book presents a comprehensive
record of Bo Bardi's overarching approach to art and architecture
and shows how her exhibition designs, curatorial projects, and
writing informed her spatial designs. Essays on Bo Bardi's life and
work accompany archival material such as design sketches and
writings by the artist, giving new insight into the conceptual and
material processes behind this radical thinker and creator's
projects.
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