Architecture [Book] : a crash course by French, HilaryARCHITECTURE - A CRASH COURSE is a user friendly guide to the one art form we all have to live with. You can avoid poetry, painting and music but architecture? We look at it, live in it, work in it. Who builds this stuff? What planet are they on? Why do they do things the way they do, how do they decide what will look good, and why do they so often get it wrong? ARCHITECTURE - A CRASH COURSE leads you through the building site of our architectural heritage and inspects the towering egos that support it, showing how styles evolved, how they influenced each other and how technical advances changed the urban landscape.
Call Number: 720.9
Publication Date: 1998
Bauhaus by Frank WhitfordTraces the history of the German school of art, the Bauhaus, and examines the activities of its teachers and students.
Call Number: 709.040322
Publication Date: 1984
Bauhaus by M. Droste; Bauhaus Bauhaus ArchivMagdalena Droste has pulled off a difficult task of condensing the vast range of Bauhaus topics to a readable and knowledgeable one hundred page introduction in the Taschen architecture series. It helps that two of the three Bauhaus directors (Gropius, Mies van der Rohe) already have their individual title, eg the Dessau Bauhaus is covered on a eight-page spread in the Gropius booklet with only a two picture to the four-page spread in the Bauhaus title.
Call Number: 709.040322
Publication Date: 1994
A world on edge : the end of the Great War and the dawn of a new age by Schoenpflug, DanielNovember 1918. The Great War has left Europe in ruins, but with the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible, but essential, even unavoidable. Unorthodox ideas light up the age: new politics, new societies, new art and culture, new thinking. The struggle to determine the future has begun. Sculptor Käthe Kollwitz, whose son died in the war, is translating sorrow and loss into art. Captain Harry Truman is running a men's haberdashery in Kansas City, hardly expecting he will soon go bankrupt--and then become president of the United States. Moina Michael is about to invent the "remembrance poppy," a symbol of sacrifice that will stand for generations to come. Meanwhile Virginia Woolf is questioning whether that sacrifice was worth it, and George Grosz is so revolted by the violence on the streets of Berlin that he decides everything is meaningless. For rulers and revolutionaries, a world of power and privilege is dying--while for others, a dream of overthrowing democracy is being born. With novelistic virtuosity, Daniel Schönpflug describes this watershed time as it was experienced on the ground--open-ended, unfathomable, its outcome unclear. Combining a multitude of acutely observed details, Schönpflug shows us a world suspended between enthusiasm and disappointment, in which the window of opportunity was suddenly open, only to quickly close shut again.
Call Number: 940.314
Publication Date: 2018
Weimar Germany by Eric D. WeitzThoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century--one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weitz reveals how Germans rose from the turbulence and defeat of World War I and revolution to forge democratic institutions and make Berlin a world capital of avant-garde art. He explores the period's groundbreaking cultural creativity, from architecture and theater, to the new field of "sexology"--and presents richly detailed portraits of some of the Weimar's greatest figures. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath this glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical Right. Yet for decades after, the Weimar period continued to powerfully influence contemporary art, urban design, and intellectual life--from Tokyo to Ankara, and Brasilia to New York. Featuring a new preface, this comprehensive and compelling book demonstrates why Weimar is an example of all that is liberating and all that can go wrong in a democracy.
Architecture [Book] : a crash course by
ARCHITECTURE - A CRASH COURSE is a user friendly guide to the one art form we all have to live with. You can avoid poetry, painting and music but architecture? We look at it, live in it, work in it. Who builds this stuff? What planet are they on? Why do they do things the way they do, how do they decide what will look good, and why do they so often get it wrong? ARCHITECTURE - A CRASH COURSE leads you through the building site of our architectural heritage and inspects the towering egos that support it, showing how styles evolved, how they influenced each other and how technical advances changed the urban landscape.
Bauhaus by
Traces the history of the German school of art, the Bauhaus, and examines the activities of its teachers and students.
Bauhaus by
Magdalena Droste has pulled off a difficult task of condensing the vast range of Bauhaus topics to a readable and knowledgeable one hundred page introduction in the Taschen architecture series. It helps that two of the three Bauhaus directors (Gropius, Mies van der Rohe) already have their individual title, eg the Dessau Bauhaus is covered on a eight-page spread in the Gropius booklet with only a two picture to the four-page spread in the Bauhaus title.
A world on edge : the end of the Great War and the dawn of a new age by
November 1918. The Great War has left Europe in ruins, but with the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible, but essential, even unavoidable. Unorthodox ideas light up the age: new politics, new societies, new art and culture, new thinking. The struggle to determine the future has begun. Sculptor Käthe Kollwitz, whose son died in the war, is translating sorrow and loss into art. Captain Harry Truman is running a men's haberdashery in Kansas City, hardly expecting he will soon go bankrupt--and then become president of the United States. Moina Michael is about to invent the "remembrance poppy," a symbol of sacrifice that will stand for generations to come. Meanwhile Virginia Woolf is questioning whether that sacrifice was worth it, and George Grosz is so revolted by the violence on the streets of Berlin that he decides everything is meaningless. For rulers and revolutionaries, a world of power and privilege is dying--while for others, a dream of overthrowing democracy is being born. With novelistic virtuosity, Daniel Schönpflug describes this watershed time as it was experienced on the ground--open-ended, unfathomable, its outcome unclear. Combining a multitude of acutely observed details, Schönpflug shows us a world suspended between enthusiasm and disappointment, in which the window of opportunity was suddenly open, only to quickly close shut again.
Weimar Germany by
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century--one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weitz reveals how Germans rose from the turbulence and defeat of World War I and revolution to forge democratic institutions and make Berlin a world capital of avant-garde art. He explores the period's groundbreaking cultural creativity, from architecture and theater, to the new field of "sexology"--and presents richly detailed portraits of some of the Weimar's greatest figures. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath this glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical Right. Yet for decades after, the Weimar period continued to powerfully influence contemporary art, urban design, and intellectual life--from Tokyo to Ankara, and Brasilia to New York. Featuring a new preface, this comprehensive and compelling book demonstrates why Weimar is an example of all that is liberating and all that can go wrong in a democracy.
