The book showcases the innovative landscape architecture and garden design of mid-century North America, featuring the work of renowned photographers Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller. It highlights previously unpublished photographs that capture the essence and creativity of this transformative period in design, offering a unique visual exploration of the era's influential figures and their contributions to the field.
This book celebrates seventy years of outstanding design by Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture. It starts with historical milestones, shows some examples of process and practice, and concludes with a few consequential recent projects.
"California Captured" highlights the Mid-Century Modern architecture of California through the lens of photographer Marvin Rand. His iconic images of renowned architects like Craig Ellwood and Frank Lloyd Wright helped define this celebrated style. The book showcases Rand's recently discovered archive, offering a fresh perspective on the era.
From the ubiquitous Knoll Tulip chairs and tables to the TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, Eero Saarinen was one of the 20th century's most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across art and architecture.
The story behind a little-known episode in the annals of modern architecture and psychology—a 1950s creativity study of the top architects of the day, including Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Richard Neutra, George Nelson, and dozens more—is now published for the first time. The story of midcentury architecture in America is dominated by outsized figures who were universally acknowledged as creative geniuses. Yet virtually unheard of is this intensive 1958–59 study, conducted at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at the University of California, Berkeley, that scrutinized these famous architects in an effort to map their minds. Deploying an array of tests reflecting current psychological theories, the investigation sought to answer questions that still apply to creative practice today: What makes a person creative? What are the biographical conditions and personality traits necessary to actualize that potential? The study’s findings have been gathered through numerous original sources, including questionnaires, aptitude tests, and interview transcripts, revealing how these great architects evaluated their own creativity and that of their peers. In The Creative Architect, Pierluigi Serraino charts the development, implementation, and findings of this historic study, producing the first look at a fascinating and forgotten moment in architecture, psychology, and American history.
Die Gebäude, die in unserer Erinnerung den Geist der Architektur der 50er und 60er Jahre verkörpern, sind die, deren Abbildungen überall durch Magazine und Bücher verbreitet wurden. Doch was ist mit denen, die irgendwo auf der Strecke geblieben und kaum oder nie veröffentlicht wurden? Der Austausch von visuellen Informationen ist ausschlaggebend für die Entwicklung und Förderung von Architekturströmungen. Wenn ein Gebäude nicht weithin bekannt ist und seine Fotos kaum oder nie publiziert werden, so wird es niemals Gegenstand des architektonischen Diskurses werden. Viele der von Julius Shulman fotografierten Bauten erlitten dieses Schicksal - sie wurden vergessen. Mit diesem Buch bringt TASCHEN sie zurück ans Licht und würdigt den kalifornischen Modernismus in all seinen Formen. Das bisher wenig beachtete Archiv von Julius Shulman zeigt uns eine andere Seite des Modernismus, um die es so viele Jahre lang ruhig gewesen ist. Modernism Rediscovered versammelt beinahe 300 vergessene Meisterwerke und zollt den weniger bekannten, doch hervorragenden Vertretern der modernen Architekturbewegung Tribut. Es ist, als schleiche man sich in eine private Geschichte und in Häuser hinein, die bis jetzt nur selten wahrgenommen und kaum geschätzt wurden.
Eero Saarinen was one of the 20th century's great visionaries, both in the fields of furniture design and in architecture. Marrying curves and dynamic forms with a Modernist aesthetic, he brought a whole new dimension to architecture.
Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century's great visionaries, both in the fields of furniture design (he created the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, for example) and in architecture. Among his greatest accomplishments are monuments that shaped architecture in postwar America and became icons in themselves: Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport, the very sculptural and fluid TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the 630-foot high "Gateway to the West," the Arch of St. Louis. Marrying curves and dynamic forms with a modernist aesthetic, he brought a whole new dimension to architecture.
Many people think modernist architecture never flowered in California north of the San Fernando Valley. NorCalMod dispels that notion in a copiously illustrated history showcasing extraordinary examples of its proud contribution to the Bay Area and environs. As a style, modernist architecture was hotly debated in its day (why create modern structures where such distinctive Victorian and Arts and Crafts buildings already existed?) pulling heavyweights such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Lewis Mumford, and Walter Gropius into the fray. Ultimately, that existing "Bay Region Style" would remain the area's architectural hallmark, but not before hundreds of important modernist projects, many still standing yet unjustly neglected today, had been established. The remarkable photos in this book open our eyes to a long-lost chapter in the history of California architecture and make NorCalMod a volume to be enjoyed by those interested in California history and style as well as by architecture students and professionals.
Developed in 1989, the software Form*Z has become an important digital tool for architects when exploring three dimensional objects, in particular when designing spaces which have complex shapes and multiple curved surfaces, which do not adher to Cartesian geometry and cannot be depicted by traditional CAD programs. This book outlines the development, qualities and the future potential of this ingenious program, and the genuine contribution it has made to architectural design is illustrated by projects from Roto Architects, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Siegel Diamond Architecture, Stanley Saitowitz Office, Form 4 amongst others. Pierluigi Serraino, born in 1965, studied architecture in Rome and Los Angeles. Since 1997 he has lived in San Francisco.