Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture
|
Not currently available
Landscapes of Modern Architecture - Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragan (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,392
Discovery Miles 13 920
|
|
Landscapes of Modern Architecture - Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragan (Hardcover)
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern
architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the
work of five prominent architects Modern architects are often
condemned for a seeming disregard of site considerations such as
climate, topography, and existing vegetation. Noted landscape and
architectural historian Marc Treib counters this prevailing view in
an authoritative and unprecedented survey of 20th-century buildings
and their landscapes. Exploring a range of architectural,
philosophical, and theoretical approaches, Treib investigates the
site strategies of five prominent modern-period architects: Frank
Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969),
Richard Neutra (1892-1970), Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), and Luis
Barragan (1902-1988). The character of the sites on which these
architects worked dramatically affected their architecture and
gardens, a fact illustrated by Wright's "organic" regard of the
desert; Mies's evolving divorce of building from terrain; Neutra's
transformation of the "realities" of the site; Aalto's use of the
forest metaphor and interior landscapes; and Barragan's
architectonic conversion of the land. Fully illustrated with rarely
published archival drawings and plans, accompanied by the author's
own exceptional photographs, this book presents the spectrum of
architectural responses to the constraints of site, climate,
client, program, building material, region, and nation. Taken as a
group, the work of these five architects sheds important light on
the consideration and influence of the site and landscape on the
practice of architecture during the 20th century.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.