The other modern movement : architecture, 1920-1970 /

"Usually associated with Mies and Le Corbusier, the Modern Movement was instrumental in advancing new technologies of construction in architecture, including the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete. Renowned historian Kenneth Frampton offers a bold look at this crucial period, focusing...

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Main Authors: Frampton, Kenneth
Published: Yale University Press,
Publisher Address: New Haven, CT :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "Usually associated with Mies and Le Corbusier, the Modern Movement was instrumental in advancing new technologies of construction in architecture, including the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete. Renowned historian Kenneth Frampton offers a bold look at this crucial period, focusing on architects less commonly associated with the movement in order to reveal the breadth and complexity of architectural modernism. The Other Modern Movement profiles nineteen architects, each of whom consciously contributed to the evolution of a new architectural typology through a key work realized between 1922 and 1962. Frampton's account offers new insights into iconic buildings like Eileen Gray's E-1027 House in France and Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, California, as well as lesser-known works such as Antonin Raymond's Tokyo Golf Club and Alejandro de la Sota's Maravillas School Gymnasium in Madrid. Foregrounding the ways that these diverse projects employed progressive models, advanced new methods in construction techniques, and displayed a new sociocultural awareness, Frampton shines a light on the rich legacy of the Modern Movement and the enduring potential of the unfinished modernist project"--
Item Description: "Published in Italian as L'altro Movimento Moderno (Mendrisio Academy Press/Silvana Editoriale, 2015)"--Verso of title page.
This book originated in a lecture course that Kenneth Frampton gave in Mendrisio, Switzerland at the Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana. An Italian edition [a translation of the original English manuscript] was published as L'altro movimento moderno in 2015 by Mendrisio Academy Press in association with Silvana Editoriale. The English edition was published by Yale University Press in 2021.
Carrier Form: xxi, 322 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-315) and index.
ISBN: 9780300238891
0300238894
Index Number: NA682
CLC: TU-091.5
Call Number: TU-091.5/F813-1
Contents: Rudolf Schindler -- Eileen Gray -- Johannes Duiker -- Willem Marinus Dudok -- Louis Herman De Koninck -- Pierre Chareau -- Sigurd Lewerentz -- Evan Owen Williams -- Antonin Raymond -- Erich Mendelsohn -- Berthold Lubetkin -- Jaromir Krejcar -- Vilhelm Lauritzen -- Werner Moser and Max Ernst Haefeli -- Arne Jacobsen -- Richard Neutra -- Max Bill -- Alejandro de la Sota.