Architecture

By Andrew S. Dolkart Neue Galerie New York opened in 2001 in a distinguished home: a 1913 Beaux-Arts mansion designed by Carrère and Hastings, one of the preeminent architectural firms of its era. The house was commissioned by William Starr and Edith Warren Miller, both members of old and established American families. It was later occupied by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III. The mansion was purchased in 1994 by Serge Sabarsky and Ronald Lauder, with the intention of turning it into a museum for German and Austrian art. Architect Annabelle Selldorf was given the considerable task of transforming the building into a modern museum. Architectural historian Andrew Dolkart recounts the colorful history of the building on its journey from mansion to museum. In the process, he illuminates the social changes of New York over the course of a century. Hardcover79 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkExpanded and revised edition, 20239.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inchesISBN 9781931794213 History, Architecture

1048 Fifth Avenue: From Mansion to Museum

Edited by Lilli Hollein and Bärbel Vischer With contributions by Kimberly Bradley, Lilli Hollein, Nina Schedlmayer, and Bärbel Vischer The iconic designs that are still handcrafted today by the Auböck workshop, now in its fourth generation in Vienna, were ahead of their time from the beginning and shaped Austrian design across generations. The book and exhibition focus on the defining era of the interwar and post-war periods and also refer to the experimental 1980s. The works are viewed through the lens of surrealism. For the first time, works by the sculptor and textile artist Mara Uckunowa-Auböck (1895-1987), who met Carl Auböck II (1900-1957) at the Bauhaus in Weimar, are also presented. The book contains, among other things, newly published photographs of the essential, original works shown in the exhibition, as well as a foreword by Lilli Hollein, texts by Kimberly Bradley on the workshop in the international design context, by Nina Schedlmayer on the history of the workshop, and by Bärbel Vischer on the surrealist perspective on the comprehensive oeuvre of the Auböck workshop. The work of the celebrated workshop for mid-century home decor Furniture, cutlery, key rings, smoking utensils, and much more Exhibition at the MAK, Vienna, 15.5.2024-13.10.2024 Paperback186 pages | 1 b&w and 120 color illustrationsBirkhäuser, 2024Text in German and English6.7 x 9.4 inchesISBN 9783035629057Architecture and Interior Design, Exhibition Catalog

Iconic Auböck: A Workshop Shapes Austria's Concept of Design

By Arnt Cobbers In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth.In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer’s complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of “binuclear” housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer’s journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro. Hardcover96 pagesTaschen, 20178.4 x 0.5 x 10.3 inchesISBN 9783836544733Modernism, Bauhaus

Breuer (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Edited by Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) is celebrated as a furniture designer, teacher, and architect who changed the American house after his emigration from Hungary to the U.S.A. in 1937. More recently historians, architects, and—with the reopening in New York of the great megalith of his Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer—a larger public are gaining new insights into the cities and large-scale buildings Breuer planned. Often seen as a pioneer of a "Brutalist modernism" of reinforced concrete, Breuer might best be understood through the lens of the changing institutional structures in and for which he worked, a vantage developed in the fresh approaches gathered here in essays by a group of younger scholars. These essays draw on an abundance of newly available documents held in the Breuer Archive at Syracuse University, now accessible online. Paperback400 pagesLars Müller, 20186.6 x 1.3 x 9.4 inchesISBN 9783037785195Brutalism, Modernism, Architecture

Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions

By Gilbert Lupfer and Paul Sigel Walter Gropius (1883–1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a bold new hybrid of light, geometry, and industrial design, as dazzling today as it was a century ago.In this essential architect introduction, we survey Gropius’ evolution and influence with 20 of his most significant projects, from the Bauhaus Building in Dessau, Germany, to the Chicago Tribune Tower and Harvard University Graduate Center, completed after Gropius’s exodus to the United States in 1937. We explore his role both as an architectural practitioner, and as a writer and educator, not only as a Bauhaus pioneer, but also, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as a leading proponent of the International Style.Along the way, we see how many of Gropius’s tenets remain benchmarks for architects, designers, and urbanists today. Whether in his emphasis on a functional beauty or his interest in housing and city planning, Gropius astounds in the agility of his thinking as much as in the luminous precision of his work. Hardcover96 pagesTaschen, 20178.4 x 0.5 x 10.3 inchesISBN 9783836544344Architecture, Modernism

Gropius (Basic Art Series 2.0)

By Magnus Englund and Leyla Daybeldge A stunning visual biography of the life of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and one of the world's most influential architects This illustrated biography tells the story of Gropius's life, beginning with his shattering experiences in World War One, his turbulent marriage to the notorious Alma Mahler, the establishment of the Bauhaus, and the tragic death of their daughter Manon. After Gropius's agonized decision to leave Nazi Germany in 1933, the book explores his life in exile in London and then his move to America in 1937, where he lived and worked until his death in 1969.Features more than 375 illustrations including letters, telegrams, sketches, drawings, photographs, posters, brochures, and other ephemera. The authors present the life of Walter Gropius as not just a key figure of 20th-century architecture, but as an extraordinarily generous person - a connector, protector, and benefactor who improved the lives and careers of all those with whom he came into contact.This is the first comprehensive illustrated biography of one of Modern architecture's most important figures.Hardcover320 pages | 377 illustrationsPhaidon, 202212 × 9.75 inchesISBN 9781838664213 Monograph, Architecture, Bauhaus

Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography

Edited by Lars Müller "The handsome hardcover reprint is most valuable as a historical artifact."—A Daily Dose of Architecture Books When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1924, it was finally possible to publish the first of the Bauhausbücher that Walter Gropius (1883–1969) and László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) had first conceived of in Weimar. The series was intended to give insight into the teachings of the Bauhaus and the possibilities it offered for incorporating modern design into everyday aspects of an ever-more-modern world. First in the series was Gropius’ International Architecture, an overview of the modern architecture of the mid-1920s and an early attempt to articulate what would come to be known as International Style architecture. In a brief preface, Gropius summarized the guiding principles he identified uniting the avant-garde around the world. But the real thrust of the book is visual, with an extensive illustrated section showing buildings in Europe and the Americas. According to Gropius, these illustrations show the “development of a consistent worldview” that dispensed with the prior decorative role of architecture and expressed itself in a new language of exactitude, functionality and geometry. Published for the first time in English, this new edition of the first of the Bauhausbücher is accompanied by a brief scholarly commentary. Presented in a design true to Moholy-Nagy’s original, International Architecture offers readers the opportunity to explore the Bauhaus’ aesthetic and its place in the world as Gropius himself was trying to define them. Hardcover108 pagesLARS MÜLLER PUBLISHERS, 20197 x 9 inchesISBN 9783037785843Bauhaus, Architecture

Walter Gropius: International Architecture (Bauhausbücher 1)

Edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy The legendary German architect and Bauhaus founder provides an inside look at the school’s Dessau location in a facsimile edition German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969) founded the Staatliches Bauhaus art school in 1919 with the goal of combining form and functionality in an innovative approach to modernist design. Though short-lived, the institution’s contributions to modernist design, ranging from architecture to typography, were hugely impactful and birthed an entire generation of European artists. In this volume, Gropius provides a comprehensive overview of the Bauhaus’ Dessau location from 1925 to 1932. With photographic documentation and preliminary sketches, Gropius details the architectural design of the new Bauhaus building and the associated Masters’ Houses. The result is a detailed depiction of the design practice associated with the Bauhaus, as well as an insight into the design of the building itself. Hardcover224 pagesLars Muller Publishers, 20217 x 9 inchesISBN 9783037786659

Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Buildings Dessau (Bauhausbücher 12)

By Scott Colman “This insightful book is a vital contribution to our understanding of Ludwig Hilberseimer's impact on modern architecture and urbanism. It presents a fresh and nuanced appraisal of this extraordinary designer's modernism and its larger cultural relevance in the twentieth century.” ―Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK and author of Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930-1960 This book brings to light the work and influence of the German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer – a central figure of the Weimar Republic avant-garde, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Hilberseimer's legacy as a whole has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by Mies, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and post-war North America, this book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer's work and writings. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which explores the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this study clarifies and situates Hilberseimer's ideas both as an architect and writer, and examines their influence on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism. The first account of Hilberseimer in English, it provides a contextual account of Hilberseimer's works which have until now been subject to fragmentary or highly specialized interpretations. By demonstrating the influence of Hilberseimer's ideas on the architecture of Mies van der Rohe, the book also lends Mies's work a newfound urban significance. Paperback392 pages | 54 black and white illustrationsBloomsbury Visual Arts, 20249 x 6 inchesISBN 9781350369412Architecture, Weimar Design

Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City

By Christian Witt-Dörring This publication serves as a companion volume to Josef Hoffmann: Interiors, 1902-1913. It documents the installation of this extraordinary exhibition, which opened at the Neue Galerie New York in November 2006. Four entire Hoffmann rooms were recreated for this exhibition. Christian Witt-Dörring, curator of decorative arts for the Neue Galerie, details the painstaking process of assembling materials for these interiors, both from an aesthetic and a practical standpoint. In the process, he reveals how a curator takes on the challenge of bringing the work of a major designer to life. Please note that this item is Out of Stock. Hardcover88 pages | black-and-white and color illustrationsNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 20099.8 x 0.8 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9781931794206Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Interior Design, Museum Studies

SOLD OUT - Josef Hoffmann: Interiors, 1902-1913; The Making of an Exhibition

By Christian Witt-DörringThe Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) is recognized as one of the leading figures in the modern movement. This catalog takes as its point of departure four rooms designed during his most creative period, the years between 1902 and 1913.Covering such diverse topics as interior design, literature, fashion, and psychoanalysis, the catalog examines the social and artistic developments occurring in Vienna during this period. An analysis of the design scene in Germany at the time helps establish a contrasting vision to Hoffmann’s own sensibility. Finally, Hoffmann’s private dwellings are revealed in photographs shown for the first time. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover224 pages | black-and-white and color illustrationsNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 20069 x 12 x 1.5 inchesISBN 9783791337104Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Interior Design

Josef Hoffmann: Interiors, 1902-1913

By Claire Beck LoosTranslated by Constance C. Pontasch and Nicholas Saunders "Claire [Beck Loos]'s book reveals a sharp eye for capturing personality, story and zeitgeist."―Stewart Oksenhorn, Arts Editor, Aspen Times"A valuable fine-grained portrait…The English translation of her book is fluent and accurate, conveying well the tone of Claire Loos’ original (which, in turn, to some extent mimics Loos’ own writing style). Richly informative."―Christopher Long, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture"Claire Beck Loos, a gifted photographer and writer…reveals much about her ex-husband’s mercurial persona in a series of conversationally-toned vignettes….Claire died tragically at 38, at the Riga concentration camp; her memoir thus becomes a haunting tribute not only to Loos's talents, but to her own..."―Judy Pollan, Modernism Magazine Adolf Loos—A Private Portrait is an unusual, literary biography featuring lively, often humorous, “snapshots” of Viennese-Czechoslovak architect Adolf Loos. An intimate collection of vignettes reveal Loos’ personality, temperament and philosophy during the last years of his life (1929-1933) and the ways in which he helped shape Modern architecture. This translation, by Constance C. Pontasch and Nicholas Saunders, is the first English edition.The author, Claire Beck Loos, was a photographer and Adolf Loos’ last wife. She was born in 1904 in Czechoslovakia; her family were Jewish industrialists and important early clients of Loos, commissioning several apartments in Pilsen and works by the architect’s friend Oskar Kokoschka. In addition to being a biography of her husband, Adolf Loos—A Private Portrait also serves as a self-portrait of Claire, a vibrant young artist who died a tragic and untimely death at Riga, a Nazi concentration camp, in 1942. The book includes supplemental texts by Claire’s niece Janet Beck Wilson, biographical materials and previously unpublished artistic photographs by the author. Hardcover200 pagesDoppelHouse Press, 2011 1.8 x 1 x 7.1 inchesISBN 9780983254003Biography, Architecture

Adolf Loos — A Private Portrait

Original Price: $65 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Rainald FranzOtto Prutscher (1880-1949) was an architect and a designer in all applied arts media, as well as an exhibition designer, teacher and member of all the important arts and crafts movements, from the Secession to the Wiener Werkstätte and the Werkbund. The MAK - Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna—possesses a comprehensive graphic bequest and many significant objects from Prutscher's design oeuvre. Selected examples of Prutscher's creative work document his long-lasting influential role as a designer and artistic adviser for decorative art companies from Johann Loetz to Thonet. The publication conducts an audit of Prutscher's work as a pacemaker of Viennese modernism—over twenty years since the last show in Vienna and seventy years on from his death. Paperback160 pagesText in English and German Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 20198.4 x 0.7 x 10.2 inchesISBN 9783897905696Artist Monograph, Architecture, Design

Otto Prutscher: Universal Designer of Viennese Modernism

By Barbara LamprechtBest known for his light-flooded houses, Austrian-American architect Richard J. Neutra (1892-1970) shaped the scene of California Modernism. From there he rose to become one of the most influential names in the history of modern architecture, but in contrast to his peers--like the great Aalto, Breuer, Jacobsen and Prouvé—Neutra's work on furniture designs has long been undiscovered.Modern building historian and Neutra specialist Barbara Lamprecht fills this gap with Richard Neutra: Furniture. Referring to the original sketches and patent drawings, Lamprecht focuses on the details of the furniture designs, relating this element of the architect's work to his overarching desire to create balanced environments for his clients, each element—furniture, lighting, nature and landscape, and building—working together to create a "soul anchorage," as Neutra put it. This bilingual monograph is a must-have for those interested in modernist design and a crucial addition to existing scholarship.Paperback92 pagesText in German and EnglishWasmuth, 201510.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inchesISBN 9783803032171Architecture, Furniture Design, Interior Design

Richard Neutra: Furniture: The Body and Senses

By Annabelle Selldorf "[A] lushly illustrated volume"—Los Angeles Times"An architect of vision and poise."—Gentlewoman"A beautiful illustration of what great essential architecture should look like."—Tomas Maier, Esquire A comprehensive book on Selldorf Architects, with a detailed look at the museums, residences, and public buildings the firm has designed in the United States and abroad.Founding principal Annabelle Selldorf was born in Cologne, Germany and educated at the Pratt Institute and Syracuse University. The firm launched into international prominence with the opening of New York's Neue Galerie in 2001. Since, Selldorf Architects has become known for galleries, cultural projects, and as well as private homes. More recently, the firm has made its mark with Sims Municipal Recycling in Brooklyn in 2013. The design and construction won an Award for Excellence in Design from the Public Design Commission. In 2014, Selldorf Architects received the commission to build the expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.This book begins with an extensive conversation between Tom Eccles and Annabelle Selldorf, as well as an essay by architecture critic Ian Volner. A newly-shot, full color portfolio by renowned photographer Todd Eberle is complimented by an in-depth look at the story behind 30 selected projects, including architectural plans and sketches.Hardcover256 pages | 600 color and black-and-white photographsPhaidon Press, 20168.8 x 1.1 x 11.8 inchesISBN 9780714871172Architecture

Selldorf Architects: Portfolio and Projects

By Detlef Mertins 'Puts Mies’s work back at the center of the architectural debate.'—Barry Bergdoll, Acting Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA 'A formidable commitment to understanding both the man and the work.'—John Pawson 'By providing a rich texture of details, Professor Mertins succeeds in making his book an enlightening and enjoyable journey for both serious students of architecture and design as well as those interested in learning more about the creative genius [Mies van der Rohe].'—Maurice D. Parrish, Executive Director of the Farnsworth House Known for the beauty and purity of his work, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built remarkable houses, skyscrapers, museums, and multibuilding campuses. Accompanied by more than 700 drawings, photographs, plans, and diagrams, Mertins’ rich and highly readable text traces the aesthetic and intellectual context for all of Mies van der Rohe’s work, with in-depth discussions of his most important buildings and projects. The clarity of Mies’s architecture belies the diversity of his interests, which included philosophy and science as well as design, and Mertin’s rigorous and accessible text gives the reader a clear description of all the most important of Mies’s buildings as well as the intellectual contexts for their design. Hardcover544 pagesPhaidon, 202412 x 9.4 inchesISBN 9781838668174Architecture

Mies

By Dietrich Neumann “A balanced look at the architect in the context of his reception and impact, complete with photographs of Mies’s realized works and a selection of his early sketches. . . . In describing the architect’s often radical, sometimes brilliant and deeply flawed vision . . . Mr. Neumann simultaneously tells the story of 20th-century American and European modernism.”—Cammy Brothers, Wall Street Journal Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was a German-born American architect and designer whose work in Europe and North America has had an enduring influence on modern and contemporary architecture worldwide. During his sixty-year career, he fundamentally rethought architectural types that shaped modern life, including the office building, apartment building, and private home. True to his alleged dictum “less is more,” Mies van der Rohe’s style is characterized by utmost simplicity, elegance of materials, and radical formal and functional innovation, as exemplified by such iconic projects as the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, and the Seagram Building in New York. In this book, renowned architectural historian Dietrich Neumann presents a new, critical look at Mies and complicates the established narrative about him. Diverging from the reverential posture of many existing accounts, Neumann insists on the importance of the contemporary context—social, political, and architectural—for understanding the architect’s life and work. The book draws on many overlooked archival and primary sources to demonstrate how and why Mies’s designs were shaped and received, foregrounding contemporary critics’ responses and the work of Mies’s collaborators and peers. It presents several previously unknown buildings, projects, and furniture designs and challenges long-established interpretations of key works. Comprehensively illustrated and covering the entirety of Mies’s career, this ambitious book is the most substantial account to date of the life and work of one of the most important architects of the twentieth century. Hardcover448 pages | 207 color + 238 b/w illusrationsYale University Press, 20248.98 x 1.38 x 8.03 inchesISBN 9780300246230Architecture, Modernism

Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time

By Edgar Stach"Vielmehr setzt sich Autor Edgar Stach mit den Gebäuden des berühmten Architekten Ludwig Mies van der Rohe auseinander, setzt sie in einen historischen Kontext und bietet dem Leser eine Fülle an Details. So finden sich zu den Gebäuden nicht nur Fotos und Grundrisse, sondern auch dreidimensionale Modelle einzelner Wände mit Hinweisen zum Baumaterial. [...] Zum flüchtigen Durchblättern ist das Buch nicht geeignet, es will gelesen und verstanden werden. Wer sich damit befasst, sollte sich ein wenig in der Materie zuhause fühlen. Dann nämlich lohnt es sich und bringt den Bauhaus-Architekten seinem Leser näher."—Iris JockschatEs ist unbestritten, dass Mies van der Rohe als einer der bedeutendsten Architekten der Moderne gilt. Aber wie verhalten sich seine Überlegungen und Ideale zur Architektur in seinem gebauten – und teils auch ungebauten – Werk? Dieser Frage geht das Buch anhand von 14 Projekten Mies‘ nach. Dabei stehen Detaillierung und Materialwahl im Vordergrund. Die Bauten umfassen, beim Haus Esters und Haus Lange (1927-30) beginnend, über das Haus Tugendhat (1928-30), den Barcelona-Pavillion (1928-29), das Farnsworth House (1946-51), den Lake Shore Drive (1948-51) bis hin zur Neuen Nationalgalerie (1962-68), mehrere Jahrzehnte Mies‘ Wirkens und sowohl seine deutsche, als auch seine amerikanische Schaffensphase.Sämtliche Zeichnungen sind durch den Autor einheitlich neugezeichnet.Wie verhalten sich Mies' Überlegungen und Ideale zur Architektur zu seinem gebauten – und teils auch ungebauten – Werk? Dieser Frage geht das Buch anhand von 14 Projekten nach. Dabei stehen Detaillierung und Materialwahl im Vordergrund.Hardcover144 pagesText in GermanBirkhauser Architecture, 20178.75 x 0.75 x 11 inchesISBN 9783035611564Architecture

Mies Van Der Rohe: Space. Material. Detail

Edited by Marcel Bois and Bernadette Reinhold Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000) entered the modernist canon with her “Frankfurt Kitchen.” She is also considered a pioneer of social architecture, a women’s rights activist, and, last but not least, a heroine of the resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. In this book, available in English for the first time, recent research in the fields of art history, contemporary history, pedagogy, and gender studies provides a nuanced picture of Schütte-Lihotzky, whose estate is archived at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The volume explores her rich architectural oeuvre, her transnational experiences and professional networks, her political development as a Communist, and her current reception. It breaks through the mythology to present a rounded picture of Schütte-Lihotzky, an icon of architectural history.Paperback368 pagesBirkhäuser, 20235.75 x 8.25 inchesISBN 9783035626995Architecture, Gender Studies

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender.

By Riichi Miyake Photography by Keiichi Tahara At the turn of the 20th century, architecture took an imaginative leap. As new construction materials and technologies met such far-flung stimuli as the Far East, Nirvana, and the unleashed unconscious of Freudian psychoanalysis, buildings by the likes of Gaudí, Horta, Hoffmann, Loos, and Mackintosh instilled structure with the sinuous lines of nature, surfaces with a fairy tale shimmer, and spaces with an ethereal wash of light or shadowy, mysterious hush.In this dramatic portfolio, architectural photographer Keiichi Tahara travels across Europe to present the finest examples of this Art Nouveau architecture. From the glamorous facade of the Grand Hotel Europa to the elaborate sweep of a staircase or the perfect poise of a single chandelier, Tahara captures the intricate details as much as the holistic spatial effects of these ambitious, marvelous structures. With an eye attuned to the style’s organic detailing, he surveys its floral patterns, vine-like balustrades, and the soft, hollow interiors that seem to summon us into some primordial place.Drenched in sunshine or draped in dramatic shadows, Tahara’s pictures excel in evoking not only the unrivalled aura of these buildings but also the particular, fin-de-siècle spirit of their age, caught on the axel of a century, and characterized by reflection and yearning, as much as technological, philosophical, and political advance. Texts by Riichi Miyake accompany Tahara’s pictures to describe the buildings’ floor plans, designs, and the broader context of their dreamlike environments. Hardcover966 pages (spanning 3 volumes)Text in English, French, and GermanTaschen, 201712 x 5.5 x 17.5 inchesISBN 9783836530576Fin-de-Siècle, Art Nouveau, Architecture

Keiichi Tahara: Architecture Fin-de-Siècle

von Michael SchmidOtto Wagner hat Wiens Gesicht entscheidend mitgeprägt. Als Architekt, als Stadtplaner, als Lehrer. Einige der wichtigsten Gebäude des legendären Wien um 1900 hat Wagner entworfen. Die Postsparkasse, die Kirche am Steinhof, die Wohnhäuser an der Wienzeile, die Stadtbahnpavillons am Karlsplatz, in Schönburnn und in Hietzing. Aus Wagners Stadtbahn ging das Wiener U-Bahnnetz hervor. Wagner war in vielem ein revolutionärer Vordenker, oft konfrontiert mit großen Widerständen seitens des Kaiserhauses und konservativer Kreise. Doch letztlich haben sich seine Ideen durchgesetzt."Otto Wagner - Der Kunst- und Kulturführer zum bedeutendsten Stadtplaner Wiens" begleitet zu allen in Wien erhaltenen Gebäuden des großen Architekten. Dabei werden die kunsthistorischen Aspekte wie die Geschichten hinter den Bauten beleuchtet. Paperback223 SeitenText in GermanEchomedia Buchverlag, 20184.33 x 0.79 x 7.48 inchesISBN 9783903113381Modernism, Viennese Secession, Architecture

Otto Wagner: Der Kunst- und Kulturführer zum bedeutendsten Stadtplaner Wiens

By Pasquale Gagliardi, Valerio Terraroli, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Andreas Vass, and Rainald Franz. The second catalog dedicated to international developments in twentieth-century glass, after Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection. Published in collaboration with the MAK Vienna and LE STANZE DEL VETRO on the occasion of the exhibition in Venice, this volume presents over 300 works from the collection of the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna and private collections. It focuses, for the first time, on the history of glassmaking in Austria from 1900 to 1937, a period spanning the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First Republic. In the early twentieth-century, a group of young architects, designers, and fine arts and architecture students developed a special interest in the process of glassmaking. They paved the way to the first pioneering developments in twentieth-century glass production as they gained a thorough understanding of the material. The collaboration between architects and designers created the style of Viennese glass, found in new projects such as the Wiener Werkstätte or the Austrian Werkbund. Hardcover328 pagesSkira, 20179.5 x 1.4 x 12.2 inchesISBN 9788857232447Austrian Glassmaking, Architecture

The Glass of the Architects: Vienna 1900-1937

By Kunstbank FerrumKulturwekstätte Lower Austria is a tourist destination beloved for its beautiful landscapes and proximity to the capital Vienna. A new architecture guidebook, Lower Austria—The Architectural Landscape 1848 to 1918 features a selection of significant buildings from that period. Arranged by type, entries include historic and contemporary photographs, brief descriptions, architectural plans, and other information. The seven decades between the Austrian Revolution of 1848 and the end of the Great War in 1918 marked several periods of significant societal and political change in Austrian society that also had a major impact on architecture. Detailed essays describe the commissioning of projects—often by famous architects of the time—as they related to such topics as the abolishment of manorialism, the onset of industrialization and the construction of the railways, and the fashion of escaping the crowded metropolis for a summer house in the countryside. Paperback264 pagesPark Books, 20174.5 x 0.7 x 7.5 inchesISBN 9783038600480 Architecture

Lower Austria - The Architectural Landscape 1848 to 1918

With texts by: Otto Kapfinger, Herwig Kempinger, Karin Krichmayr, Adolf Krischanitz, Rainer Metzger, Margarete Szeless The richly illustrated book provides an overview of the history of the Secession building, the artists association and Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze. Hardcover168 pagesText in EnglishBeethoven Frieze/Publications, Vienna, 201812.12 x 9.68 inchesLimited print of 600Austrian Art

Secession 1898-2018

By Christian Witt-Dorring and Janis StaggsThe Wiener Werkstätte, founded by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waerndorfer, was an artists’ and craftsmen’s collective that existed in Vienna from 1903 until 1932. The artists’ goal was to bring high-quality design and craft into all areas of life and to elevate everyday objects into pieces of art. During that time, the collective produced items in a variety of media including ceramics, furniture, glass, jewelry, metalwork, and textiles. The Wiener Werkstätte style influenced generations of architects from Bauhaus to Art Deco. This book features the work of well-known Wiener Werkstätte members such as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche along with lesser known designers such as Gudrun Baudisch, Carl Otto Czeschka, and Ugo Zovetti. It also includes in-depth essays that explore the Wiener Werkstätte’s long history and legacy.Hardcover577 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 20179.5 x 2.2 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9783791357164Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Jewelry, Applied Arts, Design

Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932: The Luxury of Beauty Exhibition Catalogue

By Rainald Franz, Robert Keil, and Markus KristanHow does one experience the art and culture of previous times? What are the formal criteria which span a period of ten years and are therefore decisive for the decade? Is there something valid that has characterized this epoch? And what has come down to us, in our memories, of this?For the first time an attempt is made not only to describe the diversity of possibilities for styles within a particular decade, but also to make these visible within the areas of architecture, interior design, handicrafts and fine arts. Wie nimmt man Kunst und Kultur vergangener Zeiten wahr? Welches sind die formalen Kriterien, die einen Zeitraum von zehn Jahren umfassen und dafuer bestimmend sind? Gibt es etwas Gueltiges, das diese Epoche gepraegt hat? Und was ist uns davon in Erinnerung geblieben?Zum ersten Mal wird der Versuch unternommen, die Vielfaeltigkeit der Gestaltungsmoeglichkeiten, die Einrichtung, das Kunstgerwerbe und die bildende Kunst sichtbar zu machen.Paperback160 pages | 150 color and black-and-white illustrationsText in German and English Amaratis, 20119.8 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9783950101232Architecture, Austrian History

Architektur Wohnkultur Kunst Austria 1900-1910; Architecture Living Culture Art Austria 1900-1910

By Rainald Franz, Robert Keil, and Markus KristanHow does one experience the art and culture of previous times? What are the formal criteria which span a period of ten years and are therefore decisive for the decade?Is there something valid that has characterized this epoch? And what has come down to us, in our memories, of this?For the first time an attempt is made not only to describe the diversity of possibilities for styles within a particular decade, but also to make these visible within the areas of architecture, interior design, handicrafts and fine arts.Wie nimmt man Kunst und Kultur vergangener Zeiten wahr? Welches sind die formalen Kriterien, die einen Zeitraum von zehn Jahren umfassen und dafür bestimmend sind? Gibt es etwas Gültiges, das diese Epoche geprägt hat? Und was ist uns davon in Erinnerung geblieben?Zum ersten Mal wird der Versuch unternommen, die Vielfältigkeit der Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten, die Einrichtung, das Kunstgerwerbe und die bildende Kunst sichtbar zu machen. Paperback160 pages | 150 color and black-and-white illustrationsText in German and EnglishAmaratis, 20119.8 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9783950101249Architecture

Architektur Wohnkultur Kunst Austria 1910-1920; Architecture Living Culture Art Austria 1910-1920

By Rainald Franz, Robert Keil, and Markus KristanHow does one experience the art and culture of previous times? What are the formal criteria which span a period of ten years and are therefore decisive for the decade?Is there something valid that has characterized this epoch? And what has come down to us, in our memories, of this?For the first time an attempt is made not only to describe the diversity of possibilities for styles within a particular decade, but also to make these visible within the areas of architecture, interior design, handicrafts and fine arts.Wie nimmt man Kunst und Kultur vergangener Zeiten wahr? Welches sind die formalen Kriterien, die einen Zeitraum von zehn Jahren umfassen und dafür bestimmend sind? Gibt es etwas Gültiges, das diese Epoche geprägt hat? Und was ist uns davon in Erinnerung geblieben?Zum ersten Mal wird der Versuch unternommen, die Vielfältigkeit der Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten, die Einrichtung, das Kunstgerwerbe und die bildende Kunst sichtbar zu machen.Paperback160 pages | 150 color and black-and-white illustrationsText in German and English Amaratis, 20129.8 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9783950101256Architecture, Interior Design

Architektur Wohnkultur Kunst Austria 1920-1930; Architecture Living Culture Art Austria 1920-1930

By Klaus-Jürgen Sembach “A picture of artistic revitalization.” ―PerspectiveFor a fruitful period between the 1880s and the First World War, European and North American culture deferred to nature. With a symphony of flowing lines and organic shapes, Art Nouveau (“New Art”) inflected architecture, design, painting, graphic work, applied arts, and illustration.With a spirit of willful reform, its practitioners sought to distance themselves from the imitative historicism that characterized much 19th-century art and replace it with undulating, decorative qualities. Turning to vine tendrils, flowering buds, and bird feathers as ornamental reference, they pursued not only a linear freedom but also liberation from the weight of artistic tradition and expectation.At the same time, Art Nouveau followed the example of the earlier English Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements to reject established hierarchies of artistic practice, to emphasize a return to hand-craftsmanship, and to synthesize artistic media and practices into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. In this, as in its turn to nature, Art Nouveau is often seen as an aesthetic response to the Industrial Revolution, a recoil from the mass-produced and mechanic, and an elevation of the human hand and wonders of the great outdoors.This fresh TASCHEN edition considers Art Nouveau as a broad historical phenomenon with distinct local features. We consider the style’s wider artistic, economic, and political circumstances, as well as its particular flavor in such hubs as Vienna, Glasgow, Munich, Weimar, and Chicago. Outstanding proponents such as Victor Horta, Antoni Gaudí, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are featured in connection with the cities of their greatest activity. The result is a vivid portrait of the age and a movement that is as much entrenched in our imagination of the fin de siècle as it is in the trajectory of modernism. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover240 pagesTaschen; 25th Anniversary Ed., 20169.7 x 0.8 x 12.1 inchesISBN 9783836520966Art Nouveau, Gesamtkunstwerk, Art History

Art Nouveau

By Magdalena Droste In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology to be applied across painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre, and installation.As much an intense personal community as a publicly minded collective, the Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius (1883–1969), and counted Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. Between its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school fostered charismatic and creative exchange between teachers and students, all varied in their artistic styles and preferences, but united in their idealism and their interest in a “total” work of art across different practices and media.This book celebrates the adventurous innovation of the Bauhaus movement, both as a trailblazer in the development of modernism, and as a paradigm of art education, where an all-encompassing freedom of creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to functional and beautiful creations. Hardcover96 pagesTaschen, 20158.4 x 0.5 x 10.4 inchesISBN 9783836560146Applied Arts, Bauhaus

Bauhaus (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Edited by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler “Bauhaus Bodies addresses gender issues more broadly, with fourteen essays by established and newer scholars on body culture, spirituality, dance, androgyny, clothing, experimental photography, and the unsung contributions of Bauhaus wives and female wall painters.” ―Woman's Art Journal“Dispensing with the usual focus on a monolithic school and its leaders, this collection will prove an indispensable resource for investigating the Bauhaus' immediate social impact, historical context, and far-reaching historical implications.” ―CHOICEA century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. Bauhaus Bodies reassesses the work of both well-known Bauhaus members and those who have unjustifiably escaped scholarly scrutiny, its women in particular.In fourteen original, cutting-edge essays by established experts and emerging scholars, this book reveals how Bauhaus artists challenged traditional ideas about bodies and gender. Written to appeal to students, scholars, and the broad public, Bauhaus Bodies will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern art, architecture, design history, and gender studies; it will define conversations and debates during the 2019 centenary of the Bauhaus's founding and beyond.Paperback392 pages | 12 color and 110 black-and-white illustrationsBloomsbury Publishing, 20199 x 6 inchesISBN 9781501344787Bauhaus History, Gender Studies, Essays

Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism’s Legendary Art School

By Ingolf Kern The Bauhaus building in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius and built in 1926, is the built manifestation of a revolution in design and education. Today, it is accepted worldwide as the ultimate symbol of 'white modernism'. But what is it that gives it its lasting stylistic influence? How is Gropius‘s play with transparency, lightness and colour achieved? How was the building used, and how has it changed over the decades since its inauguration? This architectural guide looks behind the distinctive curtain wall, quite literally examines what lies beneath the building‘s facade and reveals frequently overlooked facets of this illustrious building. In concise chapters, the book takes the reader on a tour of the Bauhaus building and its history and thereby prompts an invitation to visit on a journey of rediscovery. The small and handy books, designed by the Berlin-based graphic designer Eike König, accompany the exhibitions and are also intended as practical guidebooks for the Bauhaus buildings. The Bauhaus paperback 5 on the Bauhaus Dessau is the first to also appear in English. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Paperback176 pagesSpector Books, 20144.1 x 0.5 x 5.7 inchesISBN 9783944669267Bauhaus, Architecture

The Bauhaus Building in Dessau

Edited by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation “Art and technology: a new unity.”It was with this slogan that the Bauhaus—the German art school famous for combining crafts and the fine arts—moved to Dessau in 1925. The school’s seven years in this industrial city between the Elbe and Mulde Rivers were particularly productive for its designers and architects, who created a unique ensemble of modern architecture that attracts visitors from all over the world to Dessau to this day. Many of the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau are now regarded as key works of European Modernism and some have even become UNESCO World Heritage Sites. They express the revolutionary aim of the historical Bauhaus to bring about fundamental change in society through design and architecture.Exclusively published in co-operation with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and to coincide with the Bauhaus centenary in 2019, this brilliantly illustrated volume presents the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau in words and pictures and offers new perspectives on these icons of modern architecture. Hardcover144 pages8.2 x 0.7 x 10.5 inchesHirmer Publishers, 2019ISBN 9783777432021Bauhaus, Architecture

Bauhaus Dessau: Architecture

By Oliver Zybok, et al.Works from the Stifting Bauhaus Dessau CollectionDespite the famous pedagogical philosophy and teachers of the Bauhaus, the school’s students have never received their due recognition. This historic publication includes works by Theo Balden, Eugen Batz, Max Bill, Marianne Brandt, Werner Drewes, Werner Gilles, Werner Graeff, Carl Marx, Erich Mende, Karl Peter Röhl, Wera Meyer-Waldeck and Fritz Winter.Hardcover192 pages | 179 color illustrationsText in English and GermanHatje Cantz, 20149.1 x 0.8 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783775736008Bauhaus, Art Theory, Anthology

Bauhaus. Die Kunst der Schüler (Bauhaus. The Art of the Students)

By Adolf MeyerWith a contribution by Walter Gropius, Georg MucheDesigned by László Moholy-Nagy (original German edition)Adolf Meyer was Walter Gropius’s right-hand man, his planner and close confidant. As early as 1910, they jointly created the Fagus Factory, one of the most important modernist buildings. The experimental single-family home “Haus am Horn” was built for the first Bauhaus exhibition, in the summer of 1923 in Weimar. The house was planned by Georg Muche (design) and the architectural department at the Bauhaus. Adolf Meyer and Walter March were responsible for construction management.The book about the project was compiled in the summer of 1924 and became the third volume of the Bauhausbücher. Following an essay by Walter Gropius that supplies information on the “Housing Industry,” Georg Muche presents the design of the model building. Adolf Meyer then describes its technical execution, giving details on the companies involved.The series is published with the generous support of the Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung.Hardcover82 pages | 60 illustrationsLars Müller Publishers, 20207 × 9 x 0.4 inchesISBN 9783037786277Bauhaus

A Bauhaus Experimental House (Bauhausbücher 3)

By Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler The story of the Bauhaus has usually been kept narrow, localized to its original time and place and associated with only a few famous men such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and László Moholy-Nagy. Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective bursts the bounds of this slim history by revealing fresh Bauhaus faces: Forty-five Bauhaus women unjustifiably forgotten by most history books. This book also widens the lens to reveal how the Bauhaus drew women from many parts of Europe and beyond, and how, through these cosmopolitan female designers, artists, and architects, it sent the Bauhaus message out into the world and to a global audience. Essential reading on the Bauhaus or for anyone interested in the too-often missed centrality of women artists to modern art and design, Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and life undertaken at the Bauhaus and the innovations that continue to resonate with viewers around the world today. Hardcover192 pagesHerbert Press, 20198.8 x 0.8 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9781912217960Bauhaus, Women Artists

Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective

Edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-NagyThe foundational curriculum of the Bauhaus as outlined by one of its foremost theoristsHungarian painter and photographer László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was one of the Bauhaus’ most esteemed faculty members as coteacher of the school’s foundational course and the director of the metalworking studio. This 1929 text explores the educational ethos that informed Moholy-Nagy’s personal teaching approach as well as the Bauhaus school on the whole: “Jedermann ist begabt” (everyone is talented). This publication focuses on the foundational course developed by Moholy-Nagy, a curriculum built on structure, texture and organization, with observational exercises for students that emphasize tactility. It also touches upon Moholy-Nagy’s interest in photographic technology and its effects on human perception.As the final volume in the publisher’s Bauhausbücher series, Lars Müller has released a facsimile edition of Moholy-Nagy’s text translated into English with the original design and typography.Hardcover244 pagesLARS MÜLLER PUBLISHERS, 20217 x 9 inchesISBN 9783037786673 Bauhaus, Architecture, Education

László Moholy-Nagy: From Material to Architecture (Bauhausbücher 14)

Edited by Lars Müller in collaboration with Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin One hundred years after the founding of Bauhaus, it’s time to revisit bauhaus journal as significant written testimony of this iconic movement of modern art. In this journal, published periodically from 1926 to 1931, the most important voices of the movement are heard: masters of the Bauhaus, among others, Josef Albers, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, and Oskar Schlemmer, as well as Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gerrit Rietveld, and many more.They address the developments in and around the Bauhaus, the methods and focal points of their own teaching, and current projects of students and masters. At the time primarily addressed to the members of the “circle of friends of the bauhaus,” the journal published by Gropius and Moholy-Nagy makes tangible the authentic voice of this mouthpiece of the avant-garde. The facsimile reprint is intended to give new impetus to international discussion and research on the Bauhaus, its theories and designs.The exact replica of all individual issues are accompanied by a commentary booklet including an overview of the content, an English translation of all texts, and a scholarly essay which places the journal in its historical context. Paperback412 pages702 illustrationsLars Müller Publishers, 20198.25 × 11.5 inISBN 9783037785881

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931 Facsimile Edition

Edited by Laura Forlano, Molly Wright Steenson and Mike Ananny What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if it were practicing today? A century after its founding by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, as an “experimental laboratory of the future,” who are the pioneering experimentalists who reinscribe or resist Bauhaus traditions? This book explores the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. Many of the animating issues of the Bauhaus―its integration of research, teaching, and practice; its experimentation with materials; its democratization of design; its open-minded, heterogeneous approach to ideas, theories, methods, and styles―remain relevant. The contributors to Bauhaus Futures address these but go further, considering issues that design has largely ignored for the last hundred years: gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and disability. Their contributions take the form of essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and even a play. They discuss, among other things, the Bauhaus curriculum and its contemporary offshoots; Bauhaus legacies at the MIT Media Lab, Black Mountain College, and elsewhere; the conflict between the Bauhaus ideal of humanist universalism and current approaches to design concerned with race and justice; designed objects, from the iconic to the precarious; textile and weaving work by women in the Bauhaus and the present day; and design and technology. Hardcover376 pagesThe MIT Press, 20197 x 1.1 x 9 inchesISBN 9780262042918 Art History, Architecture, Design

Bauhaus Futures

Original Price: $34.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Juan Serra Lluch "This profusely illustrated book provides a clear, concise primer on color for designers of every kind, and combines the theoretical and practical, providing the basics on which to build a fuller mastery of this essential component of design. A wealth of built examples, exercises, and activities allows students to apply their learning of color to real-world situations."—Contract Magazine Color for Architects is a clear, concise primer for designers of every kind. This richly illustrated volume provides in-depth and engaging guidance on three major topics. "Color Basics" covers fundamentals of color perception and theory, systems of color notation, and criteria for harmonious color combinations. "Color for the Architectural Project" addresses issues architects face in everyday practice, examining history and aesthetics, visual ergonomics, psychology, color-trend forecasting and branding, and the use of color in architectural proposals. "Color in the Workflow" explains best practices for viewing and communicating color accurately, calibrating equipment, evaluating and managing color in construction, and creating and editing photographs of completed work. Throughout, built examples, exercises, and activities allow students and practitioners to apply their study of color to real-world situations. Color for Architects is an indispensable handbook of these essential components of design. Paperback192 pagesPrinceton Architectural Press, 20197 x 9.5 inchesISBN 9781616897949Color Theory, Architecture

Color for Architects

By Dominic Bradbury “Bradbury has pulled together the diverse strains of modernism in a readable and visually attractive package covering the most influential designers and their iconic works. A useful addition to every design historian’s bookshelf.”—Judith Gura, author of Postmodern Design Complete“The 1920s, ‘30s, and early ‘40s was that essential period where disparate Modern art, architecture, and design movements intermixed, producing countless canonical works and enduring legacies. This massive survey drinks from that fire-hose of early 20th century history, highlighting countless examples of Modern furniture, lighting, ceramics/glass, industrial design, and graphic design, with a healthy dose of architecture (primarily houses) thrown into the mix.”—Metropolis Magazine“Chapters devoted to furniture, lighting, ceramics and glass, industrial and product design, and graphics and posters present sumptuous illustrations and brief introductions to the achievements of many. . . . This is eye candy for the design buff, ideal for browsing on a cold winter’s day.”—Ann Landi, Wall Street JournalThis wide-ranging survey showcases and analyzes the work of dozens of Modernist designers, from those who established the International Style in the 1920s and ‘30s through the groundbreaking practitioners of the mid-1940s. Modernism, with its powerful aesthetic and compelling philosophical framework, is the twentieth century’s most defining movement in design and the applied arts. International architects and designers such as Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright revolutionized the built world and how we live in it. Their work rejected historical precedents, prioritizing function over tradition, and their experimentation with new forms, materials, and techniques transformed our living spaces and lifestyles and fundamentally changed the way we think about design.This lively and accessible volume includes sections on furniture, lighting, ceramics and glass, industrial and product design, graphic design and posters, houses and interiors, as well as profiles of more than seventy influential creators. The encyclopedic scope facilitates unexpected connections and offers new insights into the movement. Complete with essays by accomplished scholars and subject specialists, over 600 illustrations, and an illustrated A to Z of designers, architects, and manufacturers, this book is unparalleled and unprecedented in scope. Essential Modernism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students as well as for the designer’s studio, the collector’s desk, and the enthusiast’s library.Hardcover480 pagesYale University Press, 20189.8 x 1.7 x 12.4 inchesISBN 9780300238341Modern Design

Essential Modernism: Design between the World Wars

By Jan Cigliano Hartman A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural licensure exam in 1898 and created exquisite drawings that buoyed the reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright. Her story is one of the many told in The Women Who Changed Architecture, which sets the record straight on the transformative impact women have made on architecture. With in-depth profiles and stunning images, this is the most comprehensive look at women in architecture around the world, from the nineteenth century to today. Discover contemporary leaders, like MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, spearheading sustainable design initiatives, reimagining cities as equitable spaces, and directing architecture schools. An essential read for architecture students, architects, and anyone interested in how buildings are created and the history behind them. Hardcover336 pagesPrinceton Architectural Press, 20227.5 x 10 inISBN 9781616898717Architecture, Design

The Women Who Changed Architecture

Edited by Alana Shapira and Anne-Katrin Rossberg Gestalterinnen played a decisive role in the development of modernism in Vienna. This publication presents new research on women designers, ceramicists, fashion designers, graphic artists, garden architects, photographers, art historians and patrons. The contributions illuminate the eminent importance of these women for Viennese modernism and show how traditional role models were challenged during the interwar period. The Gestalterinnen confronted existing prejudices and created new visual languages in order to forge successful careers. At the same time, they contributed to critical discourse on the emancipation of women.Paperback272 pages De Gruyter, 2023 6.6 x 0.7 x 9.4 inchesISBN 9783110771886Women Artists, Design

Gestalterinnen: Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit

Edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-NagyThe pioneer of Dutch architectural modernism sets out his design visionIn the 1910s, Dutch architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud (1890–1963) developed a new vision of modernist design with highly geometric construction through his government-commissioned housing blocks in Rotterdam. Though more closely associated with the concurrent De Stijl movement, Oud’s forward-thinking approach to architecture also proved indispensable to the Bauhaus school of thought. “What has happened teaches lessons for what is to come,” writes Oud in this examination of Dutch architecture, in which he summarizes theoretical and practical findings. Oud’s main concerns were with the establishment of cost-effective construction methods in concert with an attention to utility and human psychology.As part of the publisher’s ongoing Bauhausbücher series, Lars Müller has released a facsimile edition of Oud’s text translated into English with the original design and typography.Hardcover88 pagesLARS MÜLLER PUBLISHERS, 20217 x 9 inchesISBN 9783037786635 Bauhaus, Architecture

J.J.P. Oud: Dutch Architecture (Bauhausbücher 10)

By Yoshio Futagawa Designed by Adolf Loos in his later years, these two houses are twin examples of the architect’s plain, unadorned style of architecture, despite their difference in size and budget. Both Villa Moller (1926–27) in Vienna and Villa Müller (1928–30) in Prague are illustrative of his ‘Raumplan’ design method. Loos applied a utilitarian approach in using the entire floor plan that would only later receive greater appreciation with the advent of postmodernism, an innovative spatialisation comprising sequences of spaces drawn in three dimensions. Photographed by Yoshio Futagawa, the two houses and the spatial brilliance of Loos come to life in an eclectic symbiosis with modernism. Paperback78 pages | color + black-and-white illustrationsText in Japanese and EnglishAda Edita, 201710.28 x 0.47 x 14.49 inchesISBN 9784871405584 Adolf Loos, Modernist Architecture

Residential Masterpieces 25: Adolf Loos Villa Muller / Villa Moller

By Christopher Long How the architects of the Vienna Secession turned their principles inward, creating a new trend in interior design In The New Interior, architectural historian Christopher Long examines how, over the course of the seven years preceding World War I, three leading Viennese modernists—Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and Oskar Strnad—redefined the idea of the modern interior. While their building designs shaped Vienna’s urban landscape and exemplified the famous Secession movement, these three architects also applied their eclectic principles to domestic interiors, or Wohnkultur (meaning "living" or "dwelling culture"). This book follows the progress of their debates and works, and how each designer sought to frame his own distinctive vision of living. The result was a split between the imperatives of style, function and livability that is still in play today. Christopher Long is the Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. Flexi128 pagesKant, 20255.75 x 9 inchesISBN 9788074374296Interior Design, Architecture, Viennese Modernism

The New Interior: Viennese Domestic Design and the Beginnings of the Wiener Wohnkultur 1907-1914

By Paul ScheerbartTranslated by John A. Stuart "In The Gray Cloth, Scheerbart shows that even in the most edifying buildings, the human comedy finds a home."—Architecture"This novel will delight art historians, Brentano fans, and lovers of sophisticated irony."—Library JournalThe German expressionist, architectural visionary, author, inventor, and artist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) wrote several fictional utopian narratives related to glass architecture. In The Gray Cloth, the first of his novels to be translated into English, Scheerbart uses subtle irony and the structural simplicity of a fairy tale to present the theories of colored glass outlined in his well-known treatise Glass Architecture.The novel is set forward in time to the mid-twentieth century. The protagonist, a Swiss architect named Edgar Krug, circumnavigates the globe by airship with his wife, constructing wildly varied, colored-glass buildings. His projects include a high-rise and exhibition/concert hall in Chicago, a retirement complex for air pilots on the Fiji Islands, the structure for an elevated train across a zoological park in northern India, and a suspended residential villa on the Kuria Muria Islands off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea. Fearing that his architecture is challenged by the colorfulness of women's clothing, Krug insists that his wife wear all gray clothing with the addition of ten percent white. This odd demand brings him notoriety and sensationalizes his international building campaign. For the reader, it underlines the confluence of architecture with fashion, gender, and global media.In his introduction, John Stuart surveys Scheerbart's career and role in German avant-garde circles, as well as his architectural and social ideas. He shows how Scheerbart strove to integrate his spiritual and romantic leanings with the modern world, often relying on glass architecture to do so. In addition to discussing the novel's reception and its rediscovery by contemporary architects and critics, Stuart shows fiction to be a resource for the study of architecture and places The Gray Cloth in the context of German Expressionism.Paperback136 pages | 5 color illustrationsMIT Press, 2003Originally published in 19147 x 0.5 x 9 inchesISBN 9780262692960Fiction, Architecture

The Gray Cloth: Novel on Glass Architecture

Edited by Markus Kristan »Josef Hoffmann hat alle seine Gedanken und Eingaben und Aufsätze immer mit der Hand zu Papier gebracht. Ich habe ihn niemals an einer Schreibmaschine ­sitzen gesehen und er ist doch der modernste Mensch, dem man begegnen kann, der alle Strömungen und Bewegungen in sich aufgenommen hat, der stets der erste war, neue Impulse auszuteilen und die Jugend zu entflammen. Er hat Architektur und Kunsthandwerk aus der Zeit wachsen lassen, er ist der Meister der großen Form und der klaren Linie. Die Kraft, die ihn dazu befähigte, liegt nicht nur in seiner Geburt und Kindheit gesichert, sie hat ihre ewige Geborgenheit in der Idee, die ihn umfing, die ihn zuerst zur Kunst hinführte. Andere Menschen haben nur den irdischen Gewinn am Ausgang und Ziel ihres Weges und damit vergeuden sie Erbschaft, Leben und Freude.«(L. W. Rochowanski 1951) Hardcover192 pagesText in GermanBibliothek der Provinz, 202415.5 x 22 x 2 cmISBN 9783991262329Art and Architecture

Essays & Texte

By A. Grunewald; A. Hultzsch; S. Nozawa e.a. When Ise Gropius (1897–1983) embarked on a three-month trip to Japan with her husband, architect Walter Gropius, in 1954, she proved to be a gifted chronicler. In detailed reports – her only known cohesive writings from the post-war period – she vividly describes the country and its people. With keen wit and understanding, she comments on everything from discussions about reconstruction, lectures, and the Bauhaus exhibition in Tokyo, to evening parties, the role of Japanese women, Zen Buddhism, and the local cuisine. Extensively annotated by art historian and editor Almut Grunewald, this volume publishes Ise’s travelogues in facsimile for the first time. Hardcover152 pagesIdea Books, 202421.7 x 1.5 x 28.4 cmISBN 9783856764548Architecture, History

Cooking Up Dinner Speeches - Ise Gropius in Japan

By Kai Uwe Schierz, Patrick Rössler, Miriam Krautwurst, & Elizabeth Otto In 1919, the program of the State Bauhaus school in Weimar promised a modern education for the talented, regardless of age and gender, which drew many young women to apply. The Bauhaus-Girl ("Bauhausmädel") Type, described in a January 1930 issue of the magazine Die Woche, knew what she wanted and would succeed. This volume's essays question the euphoria of the time period with the knowledge of Bauhaus members' subsequent destinies. The essays take as exemplary the biographies of Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Margarete Heymann, and Margaretha Reichardt, both during their training and as Bauhaus graduates. Hardcover336 pages, 496 imagesSandstein Verlag, 201927.5 x 22 cmISBN 9783954984596Architecture, Gender

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