There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. This one is different, however, in a number of ways. First, it does not treat them as separate subjects, but in relation to each other. While their response to De Stijl throws some new light on Le Corbusier and Mies, it is De Stijl above all, that can be more sharply defined in relation to them. Second, the purpose of the study is to excavate the philosophical foundations of the work, rather than merely to describe and discuss the work itself. Third, it looks for connections between the aims and ideals of the 1920s and such "post-modern" concerns as the creation of habitable "places" and the survival of the historical city. The book's central theme is the striving for universality as opposed to the individual and the particular.
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'Padovan is crystal clear - this book is a little classic.' The Architects Journal
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Richard Padovan lectures at the University of Bath and has worked as an architect in various European countries. He is the author of Proportion: Philosophy, Science and Architecture(1999).
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The phenomenon we call 'De Stijl' was not an organized movement but a frequently changing collection of artist who rarely if ever met each other and never exhibited together. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Barcelona Pavilion, Villa Savoye, The Architectural Press, Peter Behrens, National Gallery, Donald Judd, The Hague, Thorn Prikker, Bruno Zevi, Gerrit Rietveld, Piet Mondrian, University of Chicago Press, Christian Bayer, Quartiers Modernes, The Museum of Modem Art, Thomas Aquinas, Walter Gropius, Adolf Behne, Die Form, Experiencing Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Karl Ernst Osthaus, Kegan Paul, L'Effort Moderne New!
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The phenomenon we call 'De Stijl' was not an organized movement but a frequently changing collection of artist who rarely if ever met each other and never exhibited together. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Barcelona Pavilion, Villa Savoye, The Architectural Press, Peter Behrens, National Gallery, Donald Judd, The Hague, Thorn Prikker, Bruno Zevi, Gerrit Rietveld, Piet Mondrian, University of Chicago Press, Christian Bayer, Quartiers Modernes, The Museum of Modem Art, Thomas Aquinas, Walter Gropius, Adolf Behne, Die Form, Experiencing Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Karl Ernst Osthaus, Kegan Paul, L'Effort Moderne New!
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- Towards a New Architecture (Dover Architecture) by Le Corbusier on 11 pages
- The World As Will and Representation, In Two Volumes: Vol. I by Arthur Schopenhauer on 8 pages
- Radiant City by Le Corbusier on 7 pages
- Collage City by Colin Rowe on 6 pages
- Collage City (Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur) (German Edition) by Colin Rowe on 6 pages
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- Integrated Strategies in Architecture (Technologies of Architecture) by Joan Zunde on page 43
- Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion by George Dodds in Back Matter
- The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) by Mauro F. Guillen in Back Matter
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