Colquhoun, an eminent scholar in the field of architecture, offers here a new account of international modernism that explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The book focuses on the work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, re-examining their work and shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. The author presents a fascinating analysis of architecture with regard to politics, technology, and ideology, all while offering clear descriptions of the key elements of the Modern movement. Colquhoun shows clearly the evolution of the movement from Art Nouveau in the 1890s to the mega-structures of the 1960s, revealing the often-contradictory demands of form, function, social engagement, modernity and tradition.

Modern Architecture (Oxford History of Art)

Arts & Photography

Colquhoun, Alan

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Written by scholars at the forefront of new thinking, many of whom are rising stars in their fields, the Oxford History of Art series offers substantial and innovative texts that clarify, illuminate, and debate the critical issues at the heart of art history today. Providing a fresh new look at art that moves away from traditional elitist approaches, the series makes use of new research and methodologies, a well as newly accessible and non-canonical works to offer comprehensive coverage of the art world. Lavishly illustrated and superbly designed, the Oxford History of Art brings new substance and verve to the exciting and ubiquitous world of art. Includes, European Architecture 1750-1890, Medieval Architecture, Modern Architecture, Architecture in the United States, and Landscape and Western Architecture.

Oxford History of Art Series - Architecture Set: 5-volume set

Upton, Dell

Bergdoll, Barry

Coldstream, Nicola

Andrews, Malcolm

Oxford University Press, USA

Winner of the 1985 Architectural Critics Award for the best book published on architectural criticism over the past three years.  Since the early 1950s, Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have acted as a conscience to a generation of architects. His rigor and conceptual clarity have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This collection of 17 of his essays marks a watershed in the development of architectural thinking over the past three decades, comprising a virtual "theory of Modernism" in architecture.  In his earliest essays, Colquhoun concentrated on themes that for him comprised the modernist attitude in architecture - language, typology, and the structure of form. His stance since then has consistently been to try to relate these issues to current practice and to analyze the nature of architectural expression in relation to culture.  An Oppositions Book.

Essays in architectural criticism: Modern architecture and historical change (Oppositions books)

Architecture

MIT Press]

A collection of essays in which Colquhoun (architecture, Princeton) examines some of the concepts classicism, romanticism, historicism, and rationalism that have prevailed in architectural discourse during the past two centuries and then looks at the role of history in relation to the classical avant-garde. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987

Mit Pr

Winner of the 1985 Architectural Critics Award for the best book published on architectural criticism over the past three years. Since the early 1950s, Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have acted as a conscience to a generation of architects. His rigor and conceptual clarity have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This collection of 17 of his essays marks a watershed in the development of architectural thinking over the past three decades, comprising a virtual "theory of Modernism" in architecture. In his earliest essays, Colquhoun concentrated on themes that for him comprised the modernist attitude in architecture - language, typology, and the structure of form. His stance since then has consistently been to try to relate these issues to current practice and to analyze the nature of architectural expression in relation to culture. An Oppositions Book.

Essays in Architectural Criticism: Modern Architecture and Historical Change

Since the early 1960s, the rigor and conceptual clarity of Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This new collection of essays displays Colquhoun's concern with developing a coherent discourse for the rampant pluralism that dominates contemporary architecture. In the first four essays Colquhoun carefully examines some of the concepts classicism, romanticism, historicism, and rationalism that have prevailed in architectural discourse during the past two centuries. He observes that all theories of architecture have in fact developed within the context of the changing meaning of history and continue to do so: "even today, the positions taken up by the various protagonists of the present architectural debate are based, explicitly or implicitly, on assumptions about the role of history in the formation of modern cultural values." Colquhoun then looks at the role of history in relation to the classical avant-garde. These three essays focus on Le Corbusier, whose work best exemplifies the tensions and contradictions of the modern movement as he attempted to mediate between past and present. Essays in the book's final section address current controversies, particularly the problem of so called postmodernism, anchoring the current predicament once again to the historical context in which we "think architecture."

Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays, 1980-1987

Michael Graves (Architectural Monographs, No. 5)

Michael Graves (Architectural Monographs, No. 5)

Rizzoli / Academy Editions

Central Office of Architecture (COA) has relentlessly pursued architecture as a recherché patiente. The three partners, Ron Golan, Eric A. Kahn, and Russell N. Thomsen, have engaged architecture on a wide spectrum manifested as built works, theoretical urban projects, writings, and teaching. They rely on both their differences and commonalities, always seeking to focus the work on the contemporary and continuing project of modernity. Strongly influenced by European antecedents (all three attended school, taught, and apprenticed there), they have sought to bring strong architectural thinking and coherence to Los Angeles, a metropolitan condition characterized by the absence of these principles. 
Eschewing the so-called L.A. school and its idea of architecture as an object, COA instead has developed a philosophy based on architecture as a tool, driven by utility and capable of promoting the joys of living. Like the office of Charles and Ray Eames, they choose to approach each project on its own terms, creatively solving its problems with clarity, rigor, and elegance.

Central Office of Architecture (Contemporary World Architects Series)

Leclerc, David

Rockport Pub

Celia Scott profiles some of the artist’s best-known heads, from Eduardo Paolozzi to Colin St. John Wilson, with both a rigorous discussion of their aesthetic nature, and the engaging narrative surrounding their creation. Celia Scott attempts to rescue public sculpture from its exclusively classical connotations, while at the same time employing the visual and formal language of classical method. The resulting work sets itself apart from the current architectural and artistic landscape, highlighting moments in the collective memory against the backdrop of modern experience. This classical approach chooses strange subjects, indeed most of Scott’s sitters were influenced by, and influential in, the modernist movement in architecture. Alan Colquhoun opens this volume with a critical look at public sculpture and Scott’s place within, and outside of, its limits. In a characteristically robust analysis, Colquhoun examines the psychological and physical origins of Scott’s practice, and relates her work to the history and meaning of public sculpture.

Celia Scott

Individual Artists

Black Dog Publishing

La arquitectura moderna: Una historia desapasionada (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L.

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Modern Architecture (Oxford History of Art)

Oxford History of Art Series - Architecture Set: 5-volume set

Essays in architectural criticism: Modern architecture and historical change (Oppositions books)

Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987

Essays in Architectural Criticism: Modern Architecture and Historical Change

Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays, 1980-1987

Michael Graves (Architectural Monographs, No. 5)

Central Office of Architecture (Contemporary World Architects Series)

Celia Scott

La arquitectura moderna: Una historia desapasionada (Spanish Edition)