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Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean - Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (Hardcover): Jean-Francois Lejeune,... Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean - Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (Hardcover)
Jean-Francois Lejeune, Michelangelo Sabatino
R5,543 Discovery Miles 55 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean - Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (Paperback): Jean-Francois Lejeune,... Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean - Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (Paperback)
Jean-Francois Lejeune, Michelangelo Sabatino
R1,804 Discovery Miles 18 040 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s. The essays here situate Mediterranean modernism in relation to concepts such as regionalism, nationalism, internationalism, critical regionalism, and postmodernism - an alternative history of the modern architecture and urbanism of a critical period in the twentieth century.

Making Houston Modern - The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone (Hardcover): Barrie Scardino Bradley, Stephen Fox,... Making Houston Modern - The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone (Hardcover)
Barrie Scardino Bradley, Stephen Fox, Michelangelo Sabatino
R1,237 Discovery Miles 12 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Houston’s foremost modern architect in the 1950s, Barnstone came to prominence for his designs with partner Preston M. Bolton, which transposed the rigorous and austere architectural practices of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the hot, steamy coastal plain of Texas. Barnstone was a man of contradictions—charming and witty but also self-centered, caustic, and abusive—who shaped new settings that were imbued, at once, with spatial calm and emotional intensity. Making Houston Modern explores the provocative architect’s life and work, not only through the lens of his architectural practice but also by delving into his personal life, class identity, and connections to the artists, critics, collectors, and museum directors who forged Houston’s distinctive culture in the postwar era. Edited by three renowned voices in the architecture world, this volume situates Barnstone within the contexts of American architecture, modernism, and Jewish culture to unravel the legacy of a charismatic personality whose imaginative work as an architect, author, teacher, and civic commentator helped redefine architecture in Texas.

Carlo Mollino - Architect and Storyteller (Hardcover): Michelangelo Sabatino, Napoleone Ferrari Carlo Mollino - Architect and Storyteller (Hardcover)
Michelangelo Sabatino, Napoleone Ferrari
R1,893 Discovery Miles 18 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Today, Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-73) is known chiefly for his furniture designs. He is famous also for his erotic polaroid photography of the 1960s, which has been subject of many exhibitions and has lost nothing of its great appeal to the fashion world today. Much less attention has so far been given to Mollino's architecture, and a comprehensive critical study of his work in this field has been lacking. Yet his built work, although relatively small, constitutes a seminal contribution to modernism that is uniquely marked by a strong relationship with Surrealism. Based on years of research and drawing on rich archival material as well as on Mollino's own writings, this new book is the overdue tribute to an extraordinary personality in 20th-century architecture. It features an exemplary selection of his key designs, both built and unrealised, lavishly illustrated with images and reproductions of previously unpublished plans, drawings, and documents. Rounded out with scholarly essays by expert authors, this is a long-awaited addition to the library of architecture lovers, professionals, and scholars.

Avant-Garde in the Cornfields - Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (Hardcover): Michelangelo Sabatino,... Avant-Garde in the Cornfields - Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (Hardcover)
Michelangelo Sabatino, Ben Nicholson
R2,793 Discovery Miles 27 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy Avant-Garde in the Cornfields is an in-depth study of New Harmony, Indiana, a unique town in the American Midwest renowned as the site of two successive Utopian settlements during the nineteenth century: the Harmonists and the Owenites. During the Cold War years of the twentieth century, New Harmony became a spiritual "living community" and attracted a wide variety of creative artists and architects who left behind landmarks that are now world famous. This engrossing and well-documented book explores the architecture, topography, and preservation of New Harmony during both periods and addresses troubling questions about the origin, production, and meaning of the town's modern structures, landscapes, and gardens. It analyzes how these were preserved, recognizing the funding that has made New Harmony so vital, and details the elaborate ways in which the town remains an ongoing experiment in defining the role of patronage in historic preservation. An important reappraisal of postwar American architecture from a rural perspective, Avant-Garde in the Cornfields presents provocative ideas about how history is interpreted through design and historic preservation-and about how the extraordinary past and present of New Harmony continue to thrive today. Contributors: William R. Crout, Harvard U; Stephen Fox, Rice U; Christine Gorby, Pennsylvania State U; Cammie McAtee, Harvard U; Nancy Mangum McCaslin; Kenneth A. Schuette Jr., Purdue U; Ralph Schwarz; Paul Tillich.

G. E. Kidder Smith Builds - The Travel of Architectural Photography (Hardcover): Angelo Maggi G. E. Kidder Smith Builds - The Travel of Architectural Photography (Hardcover)
Angelo Maggi; Foreword by Michelangelo Sabatino; Samuel Pujol Smith
R1,204 Discovery Miles 12 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"...the structure of G. E. Kidder Smith Builds, which traces his career first through books and then with exhibitions, means the book is more bibliographical than biographical... it illuminates many aspects of his life not widely known." — Archidose George Everard Kidder Smith (1913–1997) was a multidimensional figure within the wide-ranging field of North American architectural professionals in the second half of the twentieth century. Although he trained as an architect, he chose not to practice within the conventional strictures of an architecture office. Instead, Kidder Smith “designed,” researched, wrote, and photographed a remarkably diverse collection of books about architecture and the built environment. His work and life were deeply interwoven and punctuated by travel related to the research, writing, and promotion of books that sought to reveal the genius loci of the countries whose built environments he admired and wished to share with a broader audience. From the early 1940s to the late 1950s his interest in architecture led him to describe visually the architectural and historical identity of many European countries. After his far-flung travels over the decades, with his wife Dorothea, Kidder Smith focused on his own country and produced a series of ambitious books focused on the United States. Kidder Smith’s vision and narrative betray the gaze of the traveller, the scholar, and the architect.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Complete Writings 1922–1969 (Paperback): Vittorio Pizzigoni, Michelangelo Sabatino Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Complete Writings 1922–1969 (Paperback)
Vittorio Pizzigoni, Michelangelo Sabatino
R1,385 Discovery Miles 13 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s writings and lectures are relatively modest in quantity compared with the number of his remarkable buildings that have transformed cities throughout the globe. These writings, like his architecture, have continued to generate interest among different generations of students and scholars. This anthology contains all of his writings and lectures, both well-known and never republished. Succinct and speculative, these writings concerning architecture and education – mostly translated from German to English – reveal Mies as an arch­itect who constructed his texts with the same disciplined restraint with which he designed buildings.

Modern in the Middle - Chicago Houses 1929-75 (Hardcover): Susan Benjamin, Michaelangelo Sabatino Modern in the Middle - Chicago Houses 1929-75 (Hardcover)
Susan Benjamin, Michaelangelo Sabatino
R1,087 Discovery Miles 10 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern modernism. Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism - the private residence. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75 explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this generously illustrated book expand and enrich the story of the region's built environment. Authors Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino survey dozens of influential houses by architects whose contributions are ripe for reappraisal, such as Paul Schweikher, Harry Weese, Keck & Keck, and William Pereira. From the bold, early example of the Battledeck House by Henry Dubin (1930) to John Vinci and Lawrence Kenny's gem the Freeark House (1975), the generation-spanning residences discussed here reveal how these architects contended with climate and natural setting while negotiating the dominant influences of Wright and Mies. They also reveal how residential clients - typically middle-class professionals, progressive in their thinking - helped to trailblaze modern architecture in America. Though reflecting different approaches to site, space, structure, and materials, the examples in Modern in the Middle reveal an abundance of astonishing houses that have never been collected into one study - until now.

Avant-Garde in the Cornfields - Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (Paperback): Michelangelo Sabatino,... Avant-Garde in the Cornfields - Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (Paperback)
Michelangelo Sabatino, Ben Nicholson
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy Avant-Garde in the Cornfields is an in-depth study of New Harmony, Indiana, a unique town in the American Midwest renowned as the site of two successive Utopian settlements during the nineteenth century: the Harmonists and the Owenites. During the Cold War years of the twentieth century, New Harmony became a spiritual "living community" and attracted a wide variety of creative artists and architects who left behind landmarks that are now world famous. This engrossing and well-documented book explores the architecture, topography, and preservation of New Harmony during both periods and addresses troubling questions about the origin, production, and meaning of the town's modern structures, landscapes, and gardens. It analyzes how these were preserved, recognizing the funding that has made New Harmony so vital, and details the elaborate ways in which the town remains an ongoing experiment in defining the role of patronage in historic preservation. An important reappraisal of postwar American architecture from a rural perspective, Avant-Garde in the Cornfields presents provocative ideas about how history is interpreted through design and historic preservation-and about how the extraordinary past and present of New Harmony continue to thrive today. Contributors: William R. Crout, Harvard U; Stephen Fox, Rice U; Christine Gorby, Pennsylvania State U; Cammie McAtee, Harvard U; Nancy Mangum McCaslin; Kenneth A. Schuette Jr., Purdue U; Ralph Schwarz; Paul Tillich.

Arthur Erickson : Layered Landscapes - Drawings from the Canadian Architectural Archives (Paperback, 2nd edition): Michelangelo... Arthur Erickson : Layered Landscapes - Drawings from the Canadian Architectural Archives (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Michelangelo Sabatino, Linda Fraser
R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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