ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN IN EUROPE AND AMERICA 1750-2000

Description

Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000 is an unprecedented teaching anthology that surveys the history of European and American architecture and design using both historical and contemporary sources.

• Brings together the best scholarship on the subject, creating a new canon for teaching purposes by introducing a thematic approach.
• Covers three major periods, from 1750-1830, from 1830-1910, and from 1910-2000, with substantial introductions by the editors.
• Pairs primary documents with well-known historiographical essays – along with some key but under-represented works.

CONTENTS

Dorothy C. Rowe and Abigail Harrison Moore: Introduction

• Denis Diderot (ed.) (1751-1780): The Architectural Plates from L’Encylopédie
• Roland Barthes: ‘The Plates of the Encyclopedia’ (1964)
• Michel Foucault: Introduction’ from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)

Part I: Knowledge, Taste and Sublimity, c.1750-1830

• Abigail Harrison Moore: Introduction
• John Summerson: Palladian Permeation: The Villa
• Dana Arnold: The Country House: Form, Function and Meaning
• Robert and James Adam: Plans and elevations for the villa of Lord Mansfield at Kenwood
• Sir John Soane: Lectures on Architecture
• Horace Walpole: Extracts from A Description of the Villa
• James Ackerman: Thomas Jefferson
• Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
• Uvedale Price: On Architecture and Buildings
• Richard Payne Knight: An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste
• Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove: Introduction: Iconography and Landscape
• John Summerson: The Plates and Elevations of John Nash
• Etienne-Louis Boullée: Architecture, Essay on Art
• Suzanne von Falkenhausen: The Sphere: Reading a gender Metaphor in the architecture of modern cults of identity
• David Watkin and Tilman Mellinghoff: Karl Friedrich Schinkel
• Dana Arnold: Reading Architectural Herstories, The Disourses of Gender

Part II: Urbanism, Reform and Revival c.1830-1910

• Abigail Harrison Moore and Dorothy C. Rowe: Introduction
• From Contrasts: The City in 1440 and The City in 1840 (illustration)
• A.W.N. Pugin:An Apology for a work entitled Contrasts
• Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc: Lecture X
• Gottfried Semper: Science, Industry, and Art
• John Ruskin: The Age of Gothic
• William Morris: The Revival of Architecture
• G, Some Recent Designs by Mr. Voysey
• Louis Sullivan: Style
• Louis Sullivan: Ornament in Architecture
• Louis Sullivan: The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered
• Frank Lloyd Wright: Plasticity
• Frank Lloyd Wright: The Nature of Materials
• Mary Lucy Mahony Griffin: Fire Proof House
• Lynne Walker: Women Architects
• Annie Jacques: The programmes of the architectural section of the École des Beaux-Arts, 1819-1914
• Zeynep Çelik: Adler and Sullivan at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago
• Frederick Law Olmsted: Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns
• Anthony Sutcliffe: Paris: Building a European Capital Under the Second Empire 1852-70
• Ebenezer Howard: The Town-Country Magnet
• Camillo Sitte: Modern Systems
• Otto Wagner: Construction

Part III: Architecture For Tomorrow c.1910-2000

• Dorothy C. Rowe: Introduction
• Adolf Loos: “Ornament and Crime” and “Architecture”
• Antonio Sant’Elia: Manifesto of Futurist Architecture
• Peter Behrens: The Turbine Hall of the AEG
• Sigfried Giedion: The State of German Architecture
• Walter Gropius: Programme of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar
• Marianne Brandt: Letter to the younger generation
• László Moholy-Nagy: Space (architecture)
• Marcel Breuer: “Where do we Stand” Lecture delivered in Zurich, Switzerland.
• Eric Mendelsohn: The Years in Berlin, 1919-1933 and extracts from chapter 2
• Mies van der Rohe: Solved Problems: A Demand on Our Building Methods and Explanation of the Educational Program
• Theo van Doesburg: Report of the De Stijl Group at the International Artists’ Congress in Düsseldorf
• Le Corbusier: Towards a New Architecture
• Le Corbusier: Architecture in everything, City Planning in Everything
• Le Corbusier: On discovering Gaudi’s Architecture:
• Beatriz Colomina: The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism
• José Luis Sert, Fernand Léger and Sigfried Giedion: Nine Points on Monumentality
• Luis I. Kahn: Monumentality
• Reaffirmation of the Aims of CIAM
• Reyner Banham: The Machine Age and Conclusion: Functionalism and technology
• Charles Jencks: The Death of Modern Architecture
• Kenneth Frampton: Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance
• Bernard Tschumi: The Pleasure of Architecture
• Saskia Sassen: Scale and Span in a Global Digital World

554 pages / 17 x 24,5 cm / English