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In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann’s legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. While architecture is typically embarrassed by television, preferring to act as if it never happened, Wachsmann fully embraced it. Investigating the archives of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, Wigley scrutinizes Wachsmann’s design, research, and teaching, closely reading a succession of unseen drawings, models, photographs, correspondence, publications, syllabi, reports, and manuscripts to argue that Wachsmann is an anti-architect—a student of some of the most influential designers of the 1920s that dedicated thirty-five post–Second World War years to the disappearance of architecture.Wachsmann turned architecture against itself. His hypnotic projects for a new kind of space were organized around the thought that television liberates a different way of living together. Wachsmann dissolved buildings into pulsating mirages that were a huge influence on the experimental avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s. But Konrad Wachsmann’s Television: Post-architectural Transmissions demonstrates that this work was even more extreme than the experiments it inspired. The book offers a forensic analysis of a career to show that Wachsmann developed one of the most compelling manifestos of what architecture would need to become in the age of ubiquitous electronics.
Wachsmann, Konrad, --- Architects --- Architecture --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Architects - Germany - Biography --- Architecture - Germany - History - 20th century --- Architecture and technology - Germany - History - 20th century --- Analyse de l'architecture --- Wachsmann, Konrad, - 1901-1980 --- Wachsmann, Konrad
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architecture [discipline] --- Architecture --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- architectuur --- Architects --- Biography --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, --- -Architects --- -architectuur --- twintigste eeuw --- Mies van der Rohe --- Professional employees --- Biography. --- Mies, Ludwig, --- Mis van der Roė, Li︠u︡dvig, --- Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der, --- Rohe, Mies van der, --- Van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies, --- Misi Fan De Luo, --- Mies Van der Rohe (Ludwig). --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969. --- Architects - Germany - Biography. --- Architects - United States - Biography. --- Architects - Germany - Biography --- Architects - United States - Biography --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, - 1886-1969
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Herrmann traces his life, analyzes his writings, including his major work, Der Stil, and presents translations of recently uncovered texts.Preface by Adolf Max Vogt For the generation after Karl Frederich Schinkel, Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) was the most admired architect in Germany. His buildings, such as the opera houses in Dresden and two museums in Vienna, were outstanding examples of their kind. To later generations, however, Semper is known primarily for his writings. Although Semper is arguably the 19th century's most important theoretician, the subtlety of his thought and the difficulty of his German have kept his works from being translated and his contribution from being assessed until now. Herrmann traces his life, analyzes his writings--in particular his major work, Der Stil and presents translations of recently uncovered texts. Der Stil, long a basic source of ideas for architects, had a profound impact on European modernists and proto-modernists alike. H.P. Berlage, Otto Wagner, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius were influenced by it, as were any number of American architects, including Bernard Maybeck and Louis Sullivan. Following the biographical chapters, which clarify the extent to which Semper's strongly held political convictions (he was forced to flee Dresden after the revolution of 1849 failed) informed his ideas about architecture, Herrmann presents the colorful genesis of Der Stil. Through his close reading of the texts, Herrmann brings to light Semper's position on iron, on Gothic and contemporary architecture, on the primitive hut, and on the ideas of the archaeologist Karl B. Cher. Among the previously unpublished manuscripts that conclude the book is material essential to a clear understanding of the ideas developed in Der Stil.Wolfgang Herrmann has spent most of his professional life in England. Political events forced his exile from Germany in 1933. Since then, he has devoted most of his scholarly career to the study of the theory of architecture and has written books on Laugier and Perrault.
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German literature --- Speer, Albert --- Nazis --- Architects --- Speer, Albert, --- Spandau Prison (Berlin, Germany) --- -Nazis --- -National socialists --- Fascists --- Socialists --- National socialism --- Neo-Nazis --- Professional employees --- Biography --- Spandau Prison (Berlin Germany) --- Spandau Allied Prison (Berlin, Germany) --- Gefängnis Spandau für Hauptkriegsverbrecher (Berlin, Germany) --- Berlin. --- Spandauer Gefängnis (Berlin, Germany) --- -Biography --- Shpeer, Alʹbert, --- Speer, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert, --- Шпеер, Альберт, --- CDL --- 72.071 SPEER --- Germany --- Nazis - Biography --- Architects - Germany - Biography --- Speer, Albert, - 1905-1981
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Nazis --- Architects --- Speer, Albert, --- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. --- Germany --- Economic policy --- Politics and government --- -Nazis --- -#SBIB:321H81 --- National socialists --- Fascists --- Socialists --- National socialism --- Neo-Nazis --- Professional employees --- Biography --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw : nationalisme, corporatisme, fascisme, nationaal socialisme, rechtsextremisme, populisme --- Speer, Albert --- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel --- -Politics and government --- -Architects --- #SBIB:321H81 --- Shpeer, Alʹbert, --- Speer, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert, --- Шпеер, Альберт, --- Black Corps (Germany) --- Okhrannye otri︠a︡dy Nat︠s︡ional-sot︠s︡ialisticheskoĭ partii Germanii --- Okhrannye otri︠a︡dy NSDAP --- Schutzstaffel, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei --- SS --- SS (Organization) --- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei --- Third Reich, 1933-1945 --- Nazis - Biography --- Architects - Germany - Biography --- Speer, Albert, - 1905-1981 --- Germany - Economic policy - 1933-1945 --- Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945
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Increasingly vital to contemporary design, 'green" or ecological thinking was already anticipated by German modernists in the early twentieth century. At the center of this drive towards an ecological modernism was landscape architect Leberecht Migge 1881-1935). Migge brilliantly synthesized ideas from across fields such as organic gardening, architecture, and biological theory to create pioneering projects throughout central Europe. He applied "biotechnic" principles to integrally link dwelling and garden, recycling household waste to grow foodstuffs through the use of innovative infrastructure and open space planning. In collaboration with prominent modernist architects, including Martin Elsaesser, Ernst May, Bruno Taut, and Martin Wagner, he produced some of the most notable works of the period, the mass housing settlements, or Grobsiedlungen, of Frankfurt Main and Berlin. Migge was also a talented garden and park designer, combining green and architectural elements through his "garden-architectonic." Haney's study fully documents Migge's life and work for the first time, challenging conventional assumptions about modernism and ecological design history. --Book Jacket.
Landscape architects --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Sustainable architecture --- Architectes paysagistes --- Mouvement moderne (Architecture) --- Architecture durable --- Biography --- Biographies --- Migge, Leberecht, --- Architecture du paysage --- Architecture des jardins --- Mouvement moderne (architecture) --- Critique et interprétation --- Art des jardins --- Migge, Leberecht --- Critique et interprétation. --- Landscape architects - Germany - Biography --- Modern movement (Architecture) - Germany --- Sustainable architecture - Germany --- Migge, Leberecht, - 1881-1935 --- 712.07 --- Eco-architecture --- Environmentally conscious architecture --- Environmentally friendly architecture --- Green architecture --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Architecture --- Sustainable design --- Modernism (Architecture) --- Modernist architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- International style (Architecture) --- Landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur ; tuin- en landschapsarchitecten (A - Z) --- BMBF-Statusseminar --- landschapsarchitectuur --- landscape architecture --- duurzaamheid (sustainability) --- sustainability --- biologische landbouw --- organic farming --- recreatiegebieden --- amenity and recreation areas --- sociaal milieu --- social environment --- geschiedenis --- history --- duitsland --- germany --- sociale samenwerking --- social cooperation --- ecologische modellering --- ecological modeling --- Urban Ecology --- Landscape Architecture (General) --- Stadsecologie --- Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen) --- Stedenbouw ; Duitsland ; geschiedenis --- Landschappen ; tuinarchitectuur ; parkaanleg ; 20ste eeuw --- Landschapsarchitectuur ; Duitsland --- Woningbouw ; appartementen ; gebouwcomplexen ; wooncomplexen ; woningblokken ; sociale huisvesting --- Taut, Bruno 1880-1938 (°Königsberg, Duitsland) --- Wagner, Martin ; stedenbouwkundige verantwoordelijke ; Berlijn ; 1926-1938 --- Critique et interprétation.
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