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Title: The Details of Modern Architecture : Volume 2: 1928 to 1988 by Edward R. Ford ISBN: 0-262-56202-2 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just like the first one
Comment: Like the first volume, excellent book. Be prepared, however, for sentences like this, on page 127: "Perhaps because this methodology required the juxtaposition of opposites seemingly incapable of reconciliation, the irrational combination of radically different techniques, and the simultaneous consideration of multiple variables, it was one at which Aalto excelled". Both books are pretty much like that. It's interesting to read these elaborate sentences, but often they're the umpteenth re-statement of a point. After reading these volumes you'll have an overview of the important buildings and architects of the Twentieth century, complete with detailed drawings describing exactly how they were built, and a sense that architects will always agonize over the deceptions they are forced to perpetuate.
Rating: 3
Summary: Poor drawings
Comment: This book could be the greatest book in my bookshelf, but the detail drawings are so basic and naive that it's valuable almost only for the essays. I mean... I bought a book where I expected to find good and useful details, and got a book with excelent essays about construction according to the masters (from Lutyens to Morphosis). That's why I gave it 3 stars instead of the 5 the title deserved.
Rating: 5
Summary: Scholarly text and incredibly detailed drawings
Comment: A review of famous modern architects' buildings, starting with H.H. Richardson and ending with Wright's Usonian houses. Shows how each's ideals regarding architectural honesty are revealed and often compromised in their buildings. The theme is really not important, as long as it provides a framework for discussion of construction methods, which is the real heart of the book. (For the sequel, another theme, the influence of industrialization, is added to the discussion.) You'll learn interesting facts: Greene & Greene's Gamble House is post and beam only where it shows; FLW's Martin house owes its distinctive style to framing with structural steel and brick piers. Combine this with the second volume, and you'll be familiar with all the important Modern buildings and architects.
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Title: Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture by Kenneth Frampton, John Cava ISBN: 0262561492 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Building Construction Illustrated, 3rd Edition by Francis D. K. Ching, Cassandra Adams ISBN: 0471358983 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 02 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Immaterial/Ultramaterial: Architecture, Design, and Materials (Millennium Matters) by Toshiko Mori ISBN: 0807615080 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: Modern Architecture Since 1900 by William Curtis ISBN: 0714833568 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 27 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Architecture Theory since 1968 by K. Michael Hays ISBN: 0262581884 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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