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Lessons from modernism : environmental design strategies in architecture, 1925-1970 / Kevin Bone, editor, with Steven Hillyer and Sunnie Joh ; essays by Daniel A. Barber, Michael Ben-Eli, Alan Berman, Kevin Bone, David Rifkind, Carl Stein.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextDescription: 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781580933841 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 724.6 23 BON
Contents:
Lessons from modernism / Kevin Bone -- Reviewing modernism through the lens of sustainability / David Rifkind -- Climate map with projects -- New dwellings for Bordeau / Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret -- Open-air school / Johannes Duiker -- Night shelter for the homeless / Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Gerson Ponpeu Pinheiro -- Karuizawa summer house / Antonin Raymond -- Weekend house / Albert Frey, A. Lawrence Kocher -- Housing at Sunila Pulp Mill / Alvar Aalto -- Jacobs house I / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Houses in space / Amancio Williams -- House over the brook / Amancio Williams -- Jacobs house II / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Building for the Emprezas Gráficas o Cruizeiro / Oscar Niemeyer -- Maison Tropicale / Jean Prouvé Workshops -- Soholm 1 / Arne Jacobsen -- Bachelor flats / Bronek Katz, Reginald Vaughan -- Dexter M. Ferry Jr. cooperative house / Marcel Breuer -- Walker beach house / Paul Rudolph -- Munkegaard Elementary School / Arne Jacobsen -- Cocoon house / Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell -- Pavilion on the Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas / Affonso Eduardo Reidy -- Valéria P. Cirell house / Lina Bo Bardi -- Siedlung Halen / Atelier 5 -- School of Plastic Arts, National Arts School / Ricardo Porro -- House on a cycladic island / Iannis Xenakis -- House II in Kavouri / Constantinos Decavallas -- Vacation house on Aegina / Constantinos Decavallas -- Timeline, selected projects, 1925-1970 -- Lessons from Lessons from Modernism / Daniel A. Barber -- Modern legacy/sustainable culture / Carl Stein -- The search for a healthy living and the roots of modernism / Alan Berman -- Towards a new architecture? / Michael Ben-Eli.
Summary: This valuable reference for today's green building movement examines twentieth-century modern architecture, including buildings by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, through the lens of sustainability.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lessons from modernism / Kevin Bone -- Reviewing modernism through the lens of sustainability / David Rifkind -- Climate map with projects -- New dwellings for Bordeau / Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret -- Open-air school / Johannes Duiker -- Night shelter for the homeless / Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Gerson Ponpeu Pinheiro -- Karuizawa summer house / Antonin Raymond -- Weekend house / Albert Frey, A. Lawrence Kocher -- Housing at Sunila Pulp Mill / Alvar Aalto -- Jacobs house I / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Houses in space / Amancio Williams -- House over the brook / Amancio Williams -- Jacobs house II / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Building for the Emprezas Gráficas o Cruizeiro / Oscar Niemeyer -- Maison Tropicale / Jean Prouvé Workshops -- Soholm 1 / Arne Jacobsen -- Bachelor flats / Bronek Katz, Reginald Vaughan -- Dexter M. Ferry Jr. cooperative house / Marcel Breuer -- Walker beach house / Paul Rudolph -- Munkegaard Elementary School / Arne Jacobsen -- Cocoon house / Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell -- Pavilion on the Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas / Affonso Eduardo Reidy -- Valéria P. Cirell house / Lina Bo Bardi -- Siedlung Halen / Atelier 5 -- School of Plastic Arts, National Arts School / Ricardo Porro -- House on a cycladic island / Iannis Xenakis -- House II in Kavouri / Constantinos Decavallas -- Vacation house on Aegina / Constantinos Decavallas -- Timeline, selected projects, 1925-1970 -- Lessons from Lessons from Modernism / Daniel A. Barber -- Modern legacy/sustainable culture / Carl Stein -- The search for a healthy living and the roots of modernism / Alan Berman -- Towards a new architecture? / Michael Ben-Eli.

This valuable reference for today's green building movement examines twentieth-century modern architecture, including buildings by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, through the lens of sustainability.

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