Architectural Theory Volume II - An Anthology from 1871 to 2005

by Mallgrave, Harry Francis; Contandriopoulos, Christina

• ISBN13: 9781405102605
• ISBN10: 1405102608
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This second volume of the landmarkArchitectural Theoryanthology surveys the development of architectural theory from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 until the end of the twentieth century. The entire two volume anthology follows the full range of architectural literature from classical times to present transformations. An ambitious anthology bringing together over 300 classic and contemporary essays that survey the key developments and trends in architecture Spans the period from 1871 to 2005, from John Ruskin and the arts and crafts movement in Great Britain through to the development of Lingang New City, and the creation of a metropolis in the East China sea Organized thematically, featuring general and section introductions and headnotes to each essay written by a renowned expert on architectural theory Places the work of "starchitects" like Koolhaas, Eisenman, and Lyn alongside the work of prominent architectural critics, offering a balanced perspective on current debates Includes many hard-to-find texts and works never previously translated into English AlongsideVolume I: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870, creates a stunning overview of architectural theory from early antiquity to the twenty-first century

Author Biography

Harry Francis Mallgrave is Associate Professor of History and Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His 1996 book Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians. He is also the author of Modern Architectural Theory 1673-1968 (2005) and the editor of Architectural Theory: Volume I: An Anthology From Vitruvius to 1870 (Blackwell, 2006).

Christina Contandriopoulos was trained as an architect at Universite de Montreal (Canada) and practiced architecture in Montreal and Paris. She is currently completing her Ph.D Thesis at McGill University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

General Introduction

Early Modernism.

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Great Britain.

Introduction

John Ruskin from Fors Clavigera (1871)

Christopher Dresser from Studies in Design (1874-76)

Richard Redgrave from Manual of Design (1876)

William Morris from The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization (1881)

Christopher Dresser from Japan: Its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufacturers (1882)

Oscar Wilde from Art and the Handicraftsman (1882)

Arthur H. Mackmurdo from Arbitrary Conditions of Art (1884)

William Morris from The Revival of Architecture (1888)

Walter Crane from The Claims of Decorative Art (1892)

John D. Sedding from Design (1891?)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh from Architecture (1893)

C. Robert Ashbee from A Few Chapters in Workshop Re-Construction and Citizenship (1894).

Continental Reforms

Introduction

Jakob Falke from Art in the House (1871)

George Hirth from The German Renaissance Room (1880)

Robert Dohme from The English House (1888)

Cornelius Gurlitt from Inside the Middle-Class House (1888)

Louis-Charles Boileau from Shops of the Bon Marché in Paris—Grand Staircase (1876)

Charles Blanc from The Fine Arts at the Universal Exposition of 1878 (1878)

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc from The Buildings of the Universal Exposition of 1878 (1878)

Émile Zola from Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)

Joris-Karl Huysmans from Against Nature (1884)

Samuel Bing from Artistic Japan (1888)

Joseph Eugene Anatole de Baudot from The Architecture of the Universal Exposition of 1889 (1889)

Louis Gonse from The Architecture of the Universal Exposition of 1889 (1889)

Edmond de Goncourt from Journal, mémoires de la vie littéraire (1895).

Reforms in the United States

Introduction

Henry Hudson Holly from Modern Dwellings: Their Construction, Decoration, and Furniture (1876)

Robert Swain Peabody from Georgian Homes of New England (1877)

Clarence Cook from House Beautiful (1877)

Leopold Eidlitz from The Nature and Function of Art: More Especially of Architecture (1881)

Louis Sullivan from Characteristic and Tendencies of American Architecture (1885)

George William Sheldon from Artistic Country-Seats (1886)

John Root, et al from What are the Present Tendencies in Architectural Design in America (1887)

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer from Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works (1888)

Friedrich Baumann from Thoughts on Architecture (1889)

Louis Sullivan from Ornament in Architecture (1892)

Montgomery Schuler from Last Words about the World's Fair (1894)

Louis Sullivan from Emotion Architecture as Compared with Intellectual (1894).

Conceptual Underpinnings of Germa

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