Blake, Peter

Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn't Worked

Boston/Toronto, Little Brown and Company / An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1977. Hardcover. grey cloth boards w/ black cloth quarter spine. 169 pgs w/ 133 bw illustrations. glossy, grey & white illustrated dustjacket. Skillfully blending documentation and illustrations, and gradually sharpening polemic and humor, Blake calmly explodes the fantasies of modern dogma that most architects once accepted. Such truisms as 'form follows function', 'the open plan,' and 'purity of design' are exposed as volatile ideas. The intricately planned, artistically designed components of the Ideal City have divided urban areas into tidy ghettos of culture, education, business, residence..even pornography..alienating individuals and threatening not only the economic futures of our cities, but civilized aspects of life in the West as well.--dustjacket. VG-/G+ (shelf-wear to cover edges. foxing to textblock edges, cover pastedowns & endpapers. pgs clean & bright, though may have instances of foxing. tight binding. dustjacket scuffed, smudged & scratched; edge-wear; tears to spine & edges; foxing to edges & interior; flap creased & clipped) .

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Book number: 183172

Catalogue: Designs and Styles - American Architecture

Keywords: Modernist Architecture, 20th Century Architecture ; Modernist Architecture ; ;

Clute, Eugene

The Practical Requirements of Modern Buildings

New York, The Pencil Points Press, 1928. Hardcover. brown boards w/ dark brown printing & brown quarter cloth spine. 231 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Pages have occcasional marks or smudges, otherwise, appear clean and bright. A "practical" guide to the design and purpose of modern buildings. Eugene Clute was the former editor of The Architectural Review. Nicely illustrated with interior and exterior photographs as well as sketches and floorplans. Good+ (scuffs, scratches & smudges to covers; worn paper to back cover corner. corners rubbed to boards. spine ends worn & frayed; spine darkened, printing worn. cover edge where board & spine meets, has a section missing, remaining paper fully adhered. smudge foxing to endpapers.) .

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Book number: 183267

Catalogue: Designs and Styles - American Architecture

Keywords: 20th Century American Architecture, Twentieth Century American Architecture ; 20th Century American Architecture, Twentieth Century American Architecture ; ;

Hasluck, Paul N.

Upholstery : With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams

Philadelphia, D. McKay, 1904. Hardcover. Aqua loth boads with decorsive illustration and red title lettering. 160 pgs, illustrations. For the practical, hands-on reader, this volume explores the physical processes of upholstering, with intricate diagrams outling repairs and construction. VG Cover has wear and fading. some spine damage .

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Book number: 183470

Catalogue: Designs and Styles - American Architecture

Keywords: Upholstery, Architecture ; Upholstery ; ; Upholstery, Architecture

Wigley, Mark

White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture

Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1995. Softcover. square, white wraps w/ small cover illustration & black printing. 423 pgs w/ bw illustrations. In a daring reconsideration of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious but least discussed feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing - the newly athletic body of the building, Like that of its occupants, wears a new kind of garment. Not only did almost all modern architects literally design dresses, Wigley points out, but their arguments for a modern architecture were taken from the logic of clothing reform. Architecture was understood as a form of dress design. Wigley follows the trajectory of this key subtext by closely reading the statements and designs of most of the protagonists, demonstrating that it renders modern architecture's. Relationship with the psychosexual economy of fashion much more ambiguous than the architects' repeated rejections of fashion would suggest. By drawing on arguments about the relationship between clothing and architecture first formulated in the middle of the nineteenth century, modern architects in fact presented a sophisticated theory of the surface, modernizing architecture by transforming the status of the surface. White Walls, Designer Dresses shows how this. Seemingly incidental clothing logic actually organizes the detailed design of the modern building, dictating a system of polychromy, understood as a multicolored outfit. The familiar image of modern architecture as white turns out to be the effect of a historiographical tradition that has worked hard to suppress the color of the surfaces of the buildings that it describes. Wigley analyzes this suppression in terms of the sexual logic that invariably accompanies. Discussions of clothing and color, recovering those sensuously colored surfaces and the extraordinary arguments about clothing that were used to defend them.--FirstSearch. VG-. covers scuffed & marked; edge toned. coffee-like spotting to textblock edges. pgs edge-toned; clean.

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Book number: 180813

Catalogue: Designs and Styles - American Architecture

Keywords: 20th Century Architecture, Modern Architecture, Architectural Design ; 20th Century Architecture, Modern Architecture, Architectural Design ; ;

Will, Philip Jr and Wolf Von Exckardt

Mid-Century Architecture in America: Honor Awards of the American Institute of Architects 1949-1961

Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1961. Hardcover. light green cloth w/ debossed printing & green spine printing. 254 pgs w/ bw illustrations. black & white illustrated dustjacket w/ white printing. A very nice collection of Mid-Century architecture from churches and homes to public buildings. Wonderfully illustrated. VG/G+ (slight spine lean; upper spine spongy; textblock firm. upper corner bumped & creased; pgs crimped/creased. tanning to upper & lower cover edges. foxing appears to be concentrated to opening & closing pgs. pgs lightly toned. dustjacket has edge-wear; rubbing to corners & spine ends; foxing to back edge w/ tear to upper corner.) .

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Book number: 182116

Catalogue: Designs and Styles - American Architecture

Keywords: Mid-Century Design, Mid-Century Architecture ; Mid-Century Design, Mid-Century Architecture ; ;