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The history of architecture constantly combines two perspectives: one is panoramic and turned towards urban ensembles so as to reveal social or technical policies, while the other looks in close shot at buildings, their interior, and their reflection of the ideals and engagement of their creators and occupants. By articulating the thoughts of twentieth-century theoreticians, philosophers, writers and architects (such as Mies van der Rohe, Wright, or Le Corbusier), Jean-Louis Cohen offers a new approach to architecture as a subject of inquiry and as a practice – one that is rooted in cultural history and in its human dimension.

Arts & Humanities --- Architecture --- architecture --- city --- history of architecture --- modern architecture --- urban design --- modernism --- urban planning

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Das Neue Bauen der Zwischenkriegszeit im östlichen Mitteleuropa ist ein weitgehend weißer Fleck auf der Landkarte der Architekturgeschichte, auf der einige wenige Namen ‒ Schlagwort Bauhaus ‒ dominieren. Dabei ist der Objektbestand groß: Der Architektur kam in den nach Kriegsende 1918 neugegründeten Staaten wie der Tschechoslowakei als Symbol von Aufbruch und Modernisierung eine zentrale Rolle zu, und auch nationale Konkurrenzen spornten die Bauinvestitionen an. Der Band führt zu den Schauplätzen der Moderne von Estland bis Ungarn und rückt deren Akteur*innen in den Fokus. Er geht künstlerischen Netzwerken wie der CIAM Ost nach und fragt nach den transnationalen Verflechtungen, die über die frisch gezogenen Grenzen hinweg bestanden oder neu geknüpft wurden ‒ etwa zwischen der Breslauer und der Warschauer Avantgarde. Die Architekturmoderne der Zwischenkriegszeit erweist sich als vielfältig, auch über die Ideen der radikalen Avantgarde hinaus. Für deren globalen Transfer sorgten die vielen Emigrant*innen aus dem östlichen Europa, hier eindrücklich manifestiert im Ausbau der Stadt Haifa vor 1948 unter britischem Mandat. Mit Beiträgen von Carolin Binder, Ewa Chojecka, Stefanie Fink, Beáta Hock, Alena Janatková, Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk, Mart Kalm, Martin Kohlrausch, Carsten Liesenberg, Christopher Long, Alexandra Panzert, Ágnes Anna Sebestyén, Andrzej Szczerski, Vladimír Šlapeta, Tzafrir Fainholtz und Kai Wenzel. The interwar period in East Central Europe is largely a blank space on the map of architectural history, dominated by a few examples categorized as “Bauhaus”. In this book, an international group of architectural historians examine the sites, protagonists, and transnational networks of the avant-garde in Central Europe and the global dissemination of their ideas.

HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. --- Bauhaus. --- Breslau Academy of Arts. --- Modern architecture. --- Weimar.

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Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous—this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically, a town plan was prescribed to fortify the city from obscurity and disorder. With the proverbial handshake, Dubai's ruler hired British architect John Harris to design Dubai's strategy for capturing the world's attention—and then its investments. Showpiece City recounts the story of how Harris and other hired professionals planned Dubai's spectacular transformation through the 1970s. Drawing on exclusive interviews, private archives, dog-eared photographs, and previously overlooked government documents, Todd Reisz reveals the braggadocio and persistence that sold Dubai as a profitable business plan. Architecture made that plan something to behold. Reisz highlights initial architectural achievements—including the city's first hospital, national bank, and skyscraper—designed as showpieces to proclaim Dubai's place on the world stage. Reisz explores the overlooked history of a skyline that did not simply rise from the sands. In the city's earliest modern architecture, he finds the foundations of an urban survival strategy of debt-wielding brinkmanship and constant pitch making. Dubai became a testing ground for the global city—and prefigured how urbanization now happens everywhere.

Architecture --- Architecture. --- Dubai. --- Expertise. --- John R. Harris. --- Modern architecture. --- Post-colonial urbanism. --- Trucial States. --- United Arab Emirates. --- Urban planning. ---  Modernization. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive --- Harris, John R.,

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Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century. Challenging us to write race back into architectural history, contributors confront how racial thinking has intimately shaped some of the key concepts of modern architecture and culture over time, including freedom, revolution, character, national and indigenous style, progress, hybridity, climate, representation, and radicalism. By analyzing how architecture has intersected with histories of slavery, colonialism, and inequality—from eighteenth-century neoclassical governmental buildings to present-day housing projects for immigrants—Race and Modern Architecture challenges, complicates, and revises the standard association of modern architecture with a universal project of emancipation and progress.

Architecture, Modern --- Architecture and society --- Architecture and race --- Race and architecture --- Race --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Modern architecture --- History --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Architecture, Modern. --- History. --- 72.01.1 --- 72.01 --- 72.035 --- 72.036 --- 72.037 --- Kolonisatie --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 18e eeuw --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 19e eeuw --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1900 - 1950 --- Architecture et société --- Architecture et race --- Histoire --- Sociology of minorities --- architecture [discipline] --- architectural history --- discrimination --- slavery --- colonialism --- architectuurtheorie --- Discrimination --- Colonialisme --- Racisme

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Les nouvelles générations d'agriculteurs ont réinventé la ferme familiale et ses traditions, en adoptant des pratiques durables et une architecture moderne audacieuse. Cet ouvrage présente seize fermes à travers le monde, mettant en évidence les liens entre l'alimentation, le design, le terrain et le patrimoine agricole. D'après traduction de la 4e de couv. Recent generations of farmers have reinvented the family farm and its traditions, embracing organic practices and sustainability and, along with them, a bold new use of modern architecture. The New Farm profiles sixteen contemporary farms around the globe, accompanied by plans and colorful images that highlight the connections among family, food, design, terrain, and heritage.

Ferme agricole --- Bâtiment agricole --- 21e siècle --- Architecture --- 728.6 --- Farm buildings --- Architecture, Modern --- Modern architecture --- Architecture, Rural --- Buildings, Farm --- Rural architecture --- Buildings --- Livestock --- 728.6 Plattelandsarchitectuur. Boerderijen --- Plattelandsarchitectuur. Boerderijen --- Plattelandsarchitectuur --- Boerderijen --- Landelijke woningen --- Vernaculaire woningbouw --- Themes, motives --- Housing --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery --- rural housing --- rural life --- farms --- 72.025.4 --- Architectuur ; boerderijen ; stallen ; schuren ; 21ste eeuw --- Woningbouw ; boerderijen --- Architectuur ; renovatie, restauratie, vernieuwing --- Agriculture urbaine --- Architecture écologique --- Architecture durable