Tradition and Invention in Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tradition and Invention in Architecture write by Robert A. M. Stern. This book was released on 2011. Tradition and Invention in Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thought-provoking, elegantly crafted collection of essays by one of architecture's most influential figures Among practicing architects today, perhaps only Robert A. M. Stern once contemplated a career as a historian, an interest that has informed both his built work and his writings. Tradition and Invention in Architecture brings together 26 of Stern's essays and conversations from the past five decades. Topics range from modern classicism, American housing, gardens, and New York City to the work of Norman Foster, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, and Robert Moses. Reminders of Stern's own broad career in architecture are found in his thoughts on his PBS television series Pride of Place, his discussion of the planning of Seaside and Celebration, Florida, and his view on institutional branding through architecture. Known as much for his candor as for his profound knowledge of American architecture, Stern's observations on the architecture of his time are equally valuable. As he writes, "For an architect, writing is one way of reconsidering history while working in the present--always in search of the best from the past and the present, which allows us to invent for the future."
The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture
The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture write by Professor David Mayernik. This book was released on 2013-12-28. The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice. Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to contemporary practice.
Architecture in Europe Since 1968
Architecture in Europe Since 1968 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture in Europe Since 1968 write by Alexander Tzonis. This book was released on 1997. Architecture in Europe Since 1968 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of an American Institute of Architects Award, this book surveys 20 years characterized by conflict between tradition and invention, modern and anti-modern, and by an abundance of disparate design solutions. More than 75 projects are presented with critical essays, photographs, drawings, site diagrams, construction details, and extensive documentation. 563 illus. 201 in color.
Tradition Today
Tradition Today - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tradition Today write by Robert Adam. This book was released on 2008. Tradition Today available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In January 2002, after a two year gestation period, the International Network for Traditional Buildings, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU) was launched. To celebrate the launch, a conference was held to debate the place of tradition in modern society. While INTBAU was specifically concerned with building and urbanism, if tradition was indeed relevant then it must have a place throughout society. The conference forms the basis of this book.It is an important feature of traditions that they adapt and change. So, while change accelerates so should the adaptation of traditions. If we rely on tradition for the transmission of culture, then the adaptation of traditions is a matter of importance to all of us. If change occurs without the transmission of culture, then culture itself dies; culture cannot be created anew every day. The evolutionary nature of tradition is something often ignored by supporters and opponents alike. It is important that history – that which measures our distance from the past – is not confused with tradition – the past living through us.The papers presented in this book discuss these points and many others are a fascinating miscellany. With contributions ranging from the practical to the academic these papers can leave no doubt about the continued role and significance of tradition, the passion of those who understand its relevance and the dangers inherent in its denial.
Quatremere de Quincy
Quatremere de Quincy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quatremere de Quincy write by Sylvia Lavin. This book was released on 1992. Quatremere de Quincy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sylvia Lavin uncovers the origins of one of the fundamental concepts of modern architectural theory, the idea that architecture is a form of language.
