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Modern trains and splendid stations : architecture, design and train travel for the twenty-first century.
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ISBN: 1858941490 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Merrell

Emergence : morphogenetic design strategies
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ISBN: 0470866888 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chichester Wiley

Exquisite corpse : writing on buildings
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ISBN: 0860916871 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Verso


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Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity : Our Past, Our Present
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ISBN: 9781954081901 1954081901 Year: 2022 Publisher: Novato ORO Editions

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Against the theory that the 20th century connected the objective of modernity to that of the Modern Movement, this book deals with the theme of a present continuity by revealing those “open visions” that characterized modernity at the end of the 19th century. By critically reviewing the main stages of development over time—as well as the intense debates of architectural historians, architects, and contemporary scholars—through the thesis of modernity as tradition, research, and criticism, a concept of contradiction is supported. Further echoed by that of “architecture tout court,” enhancing the present environment in its current fragility of views—even more so today with the appearance of a virus capable of undermining our way of living. These are “contemporary modernisms” aimed at recovering the essence of a recent past to project it into the present, restoring to architecture that long-neglected role of critical construction and formation of society in an era, ultimately defined as “of Rembrandt beauty.”


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Revues d'architecture dans les années 1960 et 1970 : fragments d'une histoire événementielle, intellectuelle et matérielle : actes du colloque international tenu les 6 et 7 mai 2004 au Centre canadien d'architecture, CCA, à Montréal
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ISBN: 9782980782411 2980782416 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Montréal] Institut de recherche en histoire de l'architecture


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Le Corbusier 1887-1965 : lyrische architectuur in het machinetijdperk
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ISBN: 9789077686539 Year: 2007 Publisher: Köln Taschen

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Onder het pseudoniem Le Corbusier groeide de Zwitserse architect, designer en stedenbouwkundige Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (1887-1965) vanaf 1925 uit tot een van de belangrijkste vertegenwoordigers van Het Nieuwe Bouwen. Zijn modernistische stijl blinkt uit door zijn eenvoud en evenwicht, waarbij ruimte, licht en vorm subtiel op elkaar inwerken. Dankzij revolutionaire projecten zoals de strakke Villa Savoye, het betonnen wooncomplex Unité d'Habitation, de plastische bedevaartkapel Notre Dame du Haut en zijn beroemde Chaise Longue wordt Le Corbusier beschouwd als één van de grootste vormvernieuwers van de twintigste eeuw.


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On the very edge : modernism and modernity in the arts and architecture of interwar Serbia (1918-1941)
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ISBN: 9789058679932 9058679934 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press,

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Revealing a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene in the Balkans. 'On the Very Edge' brings together fourteen empirical and comparative essays about the production, perception, and reception of modernity and modernism in the visual arts, architecture, and literature of interwar Serbia (1918-1941). The contributions highlight some idiosyncratic features of modernist processes in this complex period in Serbian arts and society, which emerged 'on the very edge' between territorial and cultural, new and old, modern and traditional identities. With an open methodological framework this book reveals a vibrant and0intertwined artistic scene, which, albeit prematurely, announced interests in pluralism and globalism. 'On the Very Edge' addresses issues of artistic identities and cultural geographies and aims to enrich contextualized studies of modernism and its variants in the Balkans and Europe, while simultaneously re-mapping and adjusting the prevailing historical canon.

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