Architecture and Design in Europe and America 1750 - 2000

by Harrison-Moore, Abigail; Rowe, Dorothy C.

• ISBN13: 9781405115315
• ISBN10: 1405115319
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 17502000 is an unprecedented teaching anthology that surveys the history of European and American architecture and design using both historical and contemporary sources. This ambitious volume brings together the best scholarship on the subject as it has been taught, thought, and talked about in academic and architectural circles yet it also reconfigures the canon for teaching purposes by introducing a thematic approach. The book covers three major periods 17501830, 18301910, and 19102000 with substantial introductions to each section by the editors. Pairing primary documents with well-known historiographical essays, along with some key but underrepresented works, this book will be especially welcomed by those studying architectural history at the undergraduate level.

Author Biography

Abigail Harrison-Moore is Lecturer in the History of Art and Museum Studies in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. She is the author of Architecture: The Key Concepts (2006).

Dorothy C. Rowe is Senior Lecturer and Programme Convener of Art History at Roehampton University. She is the author of Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany (2003).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xii
Series Editor's Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xiv
Introduction: Classifying Knowledge	1	(12)
Dorothy C. Rowe
Abigail Harrison-Moore
The Architectural Plates from the ``Encyclopedie''	13	(7)
Denis Diderot
The Plates of the Encyclopedia	20	(5)
Roland Barthes
From The Archaeology of Knowledge	25	(24)
Michel Foucault
Part I Knowledge, Taste, and Sublimity, c. 1750--1830
Introduction	30	(19)
Abigail Harrison-Moore
Palladian Permeation: The Villa	49	(10)
John Summerson
The Country House: Form, Function and Meaning	59	(15)
Dana Arnold
Plans and Elevations for the Villa of Lord Mansfield at Kenwood	74	(5)
Robert
James Adam
From The Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture	79	(6)
Sir John Soane
From A Description of the Villa	85	(5)
Horace Walpole
Thomas Jefferson	90	(6)
James Ackerman
From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful	96	(3)
Edmund Burke
On Architecture and Buildings	99	(8)
Sir Uvedale Price
From An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste	107	(9)
Richard Payne Knight
Iconography and Landscape	116	(10)
Stephen Daniels
Denis Cosgrove
The Plans and Elevations of John Nash	126	(10)
John Summerson
Architecture, Essay on Art	136	(8)
Etienne-Louis Boullee
The Sphere: Reading a Gender Metaphor in the Architecture of Modern Cults of Identity	144	(19)
Susanne von Falkenhausen
Karl Friedrich Schinkel	163	(9)
David Watkin
Tilman Mellinghoff
Reading Architectural Herstories: The Disourses of Gender	172	(37)
Dana Arnold
Part II Urbanism, Reform, and Revival, c. 1830--1910
Introduction	182	(27)
Abigail Harrison-Moore
Dorothy C. Rowe
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England	209	(6)
A.W.N. Pugin
Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Importance of Method	215	(6)
Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
From Science, Industry and Art	221	(6)
Gottfried Semper
The Nature of Gothic	227	(6)
John Ruskin
The Revival of Architecture	233	(9)
William Morris
Some Recent Designs by Mr. C. F. A. Voysey	242	(7)
Style	249	(5)
Louis Sullivan
Ornament in Architecture	254	(4)
Louis Sullivan
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered	258	(7)
Louis Sullivan
Plasticity	265	(2)
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Nature of Materials	267	(3)
Frank Lloyd Wright
Women and Architecture	270	(14)
Lynne Walker
The Programmes of the Architectural Section of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts	284	(7)
Annie Jacques
Adler and Sullivan at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago	291	(4)
Zeynep Celik
Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns	295	(5)
Frederick Law Olmsted
Paris: Building a European Capital under the Second Empire	300	(5)
Anthony Sutcliffe
Garden Cities of Tomorrow	305	(4)
Ebenezer Howard
Modern Systems	309	(7)
Camillo Sitte
Construction	316	(32)
Otto Wagner
Part III Architecture For Tomorrow, c. 1910--2000
Introduction	324	(24)
Dorothy C. Rowe
Ornament and Crime	348	(7)
Adolf Loos
Architecture	355	(9)
Adolf Loos
Manifesto of Futurist Architecture	364	(4)
Antonio Sant'Elia
The Turbine Hall of the AEG	368	(2)
Peter Behrens
The State of German Architecture	370	(6)
Sigfried Giedion
Programme of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar	376	(3)
Walter Gropius
Letter to the Younger Generation	379	(3)
Marianne Brandt
Space (Architecture)	382	(3)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Where Do We Stand?	385	(5)
Marcel Breuer
The Problem of a New Architecture	390	(4)
Eric Mendelsohn
The Creative Spirit of the World Crisis	394	(3)
Eric Mendelsohn
Solved Problems: A Demand on our Building Methods	397	(2)
Mies van der Rohe
Explanation of the Educational Program	399	(3)
Mies van der Rohe
Report of the De Stijl Group	402	(1)
Theo van Doesburg
From Towards a New Architecture	403	(8)
Le Corbusier
Architecture in Everything, City Planning in Everything	411	(7)
Le Corbusier
On Discovering Gaudi's Architecture	418	(2)
Le Corbusier
The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism	420	(9)
Beatriz Colomina
Nine Points on Monumentality	429	(5)
Jose Luis Sert
Fernand Leger
Sigfried Giedion
Monumentality	434	(7)
Louis I. Kahn
Reaffirmation of the Aims of CIAM	441	(4)
Functionalism and Technology	445	(10)
Reyner Banham
The Death of Modern Architecture	455	(10)
Charles Jencks
Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance	465	(14)
Kenneth Frampton
The Pleasure of Architecture	479	(9)
Bernard Tschumi
Scale and Span in a Global Digital World	488	(7)
Saskia Sassen
Bibliography	495	(13)
Index	508