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

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)

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 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 items 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

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

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)

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)

Original Price: $250 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By S. GiedionOne of the most highly regarded architects of the 20th century, Walter Gropius (18 May 1883 - 5 July 1969) was one of the founding fathers of Modernism, and the founder of the Bauhaus, the German "School of Building" that embraced elements of art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography in its design, development and production.Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.HardcoverText in German247 pages | black-and-white imagesVerlag Gerd Hatje Stuttgart, 19549 x 6 x 1 inchesASIN B0007DQS1AArchitecture, Design

Walter Gropius: Mensch und Werk

by Christiane Crasemann Collins "There is much to admire...content, impressive attention to detail, and the capacity to maintain a consistently high level of scholarship."—Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, Lake Douglas Addressing the life and work of a major figure of the Modern Movement in architecture and city planning, about whom very little is known, this first full study of Werner Hegemann (1881-1936) recounts his contribution to the emerging discipline of international city planning and his influential position within the movement. The foremost scholar on Hegemann, Collins examines the theoretical and ideological basis of his belief in an urban universality to benefit humanity and discusses the criticism he encountered to present a comprehensive analysis of a leader in a field just beginning to define itself. Hardcover420 pagesW. W. Norton & Company6.6 x 1.2 x 9.6 inchesISBN 9780393731569Urbanism, Modernism, Architecture

Werner Hegemann and the Search for Universal Urbanism

By Claire Beck Loos Translated by Constance C. Pontasch and Nicholas Saunders "The theatrical nature of Claire Beck Loos’ narrative, her ultimately tragic journey and her artist’s way of encapsulating the essential about Loos in a mixture of camera-sharp observations is mitigated by an affectionate regard for the brilliant, but deeply flawed man that he was. The book is hugely perceptive and beautifully written."—Dr. Irena Murray, Director of the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)"Claire wrote the book—first published in 1936—to raise money for the tombstone Loos designed for himself. The book is so very alive with his presence, however, that surely it was a means to keep him close to her. […] In razor-sharp anecdotes, some a paragraph, some several pages, Claire writes in the present tense. The result is altogether Loosian: timeless, with as little ornament, but as much empathy, as any protégé could deliver. Here, theory in the flesh walks in."—Barbara Lamprecht, book review for the Society of Architectural Historians Written by Loos’ third wife, the photographer Claire Beck (1904–1942), these often humorous, short episodes reveal Loos’ temperament and philosophy during the last years of his life (1928–1933). His irreverent personality and attitudes about post-Imperial Viennese society, the role of the craftsman, and the organic beauty of raw materials are brought to light. Included in The Private Adolf Loos are Claire's photographs of Loos, collected in museums, as well as informal snapshots of the two of them showing the whimsy and theatricality of this relationship between two artistic personalities—one as infamous as he was well-regarded, and one, a youthful accomplice and budding photographer who would also become Loos' intermediary, secretary and proxy. With this bricolage of short tales and its dark conclusion at the brink of death’s door, Claire shows herself to be one of Loos’ great champions and memorialists, despite his shortcoming and debilitations. This is not a book about architecture, but rather a love story about the Modern revolution that provides a woman’s insight into one of its most radical personalities, set amid the fascinating cultural backdrop of 1920s and 1930s interwar Europe. Paperback176 pagesDoppelHouse Press, 20208.63 x 1.63 x 10 inchesISBN 9780997003482 Biography, Architecture

The Private Adolf Loos: Portrait of an Eccentric Genius

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 Lamprecht and Peter Gössel In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892–1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls allow panoramic views over mountains, gardens, palm trees, and pools.Neutra moved to the United States from his native Vienna in 1923 and settled in Los Angeles. He displayed his affinity with architectural settings early on with the Lovell House, set on a landscaped hill with views of the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica Mountains. Later projects such as the Kaufmann House and Nesbitt House would continue this blend of art, landscape, and living comfort, with Neutra’s clients often receiving detailed questionnaires to define their precise needs.This richly illustrated architect introduction presents the defining projects of Neutra’s career. As crisp structures nestle amid natural wonders, we celebrate a particularly holistic brand of modernism which incorporated the ragged lines and changing colors of nature as much as the pared down geometries of the International Style. Hardcover96 pagesTaschen, 20168.4 x 0.5 x 10.3 inchesISBN 9783836535960Architecture, Monograph, Modernism

Neutra (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Edited by Caroline Schwanzer and Mirko PogoreutzEssays by Ulrike Matzer and Andreas Nierhaus Karl Schwanzer was on fire for architecture. He reformed Austrian architecture after 1945 and, in the post-war period, significantly shaped the image of a new, free Austria at home and abroad. As an importer and exporter of ideas, he worked on over 600 projects and designs over 28 years of his career.This book is an illustrated chronology of his oeuvre, bringing to life developments and modulations. At the same time, it is also an architectural and contemporary history as well as a homage to architectural photography; Schwanzer only worked with excellent photographers such as Lucca Chmel, Barbara Pflaum, Franz Hubmann, Sigrid Neubert, and with Maria Wölfl, who has yet to be discovered. The photographs of temporary buildings that are no longer in existence are particularly valuable.Paperback480 Pages | 280 Illustrations, 200 ColorText in German and EnglishBirkhäuser, 20206.5 x 1.25 x 8.75 inchesISBN 9783035622638 Architecture, Austria

Leidenschaftlich modern – Karl Schwanzer und seine Architektur/ Eine Anthologie in Fotografien / Passionately Modern – Karl Schwanzer and His Architecture / An Anthology in Photographs 1947–75

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 Claire Zimmerman and Peter GösselFamed for his motto “less is more,” Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and urban experience.Mies van der Rohe’s philosophy was one of underlying truth in pure forms and proportions. With the help of contemporary technological and material developments, he sought a stripped-down purity to architecture, showcased by the likes of the Seagram Building and Farnsworth House. Some spoke out against this stark approach as the precursor to bland, generic cityscapes. Others cite Mies van der Rohe as the ultimate master of an abidingly elegant essence.This book presents more than 20 of Mies van der Rohe’s projects from the period 1906–1967 to introduce his groundbreaking practice and influence in both America and Europe.Hardcover96 pagesTaschen, 20158.5 x 0.5 x 10.3 inchesISBN 9783836560429Modernism, Architecture

Mies van der Rohe (Basic Art Series 2.0)

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

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

Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte & David Frisby “Rich and engrossing. . . . Berlin’s transformation takes place vividly before our eyes.”—Andrew Mead, The Architectural Review"Metropolis Berlin is a superb collection of important texts. The selections are at once representative and delightfully off-beat; the editorial signposts are helpful but do not discourage rogue exploration or thematic innovation by the reader; and the presentation (from translation quality to layout design) is excellent. An absolute no-brainer, a must-have for every library, Germanist, and lover of Berlin."—Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature“Metropolis Berlin evokes a kaleidoscopic panorama of impressions, opinions, and utopian hopes that constituted Berlin from the end of Imperial Germany to the rise of National Socialism. Iain Boyd Whyte and the late David Frisby invite the reader to be a flâneur in a truly great city, to marvel at the vitality of its urban spaces, and to listen to the cacophony of its voices and sounds. This extraordinary anthology of hundreds of documents tells the story of metropolitan Berlin by letting its inhabitants, visitors, and critics speak. A must have for every personal bookshelf and library.”—Volker M. Welter, Professor for Architectural History, University of California at Santa Barbara Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one of the world’s great cities and those who observed this process: architects, city planners, sociologists, political theorists, historians, cultural critics, novelists, essayists, and journalists. Divided into nineteen sections, each prefaced by an introductory essay, the account unfolds chronologically, with the particular structural concerns of the moment addressed in sequence—be they department stores in 1900, housing in the 1920s, or parade grounds in 1940. Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 not only details the construction of Berlin, but explores homes and workplaces, public spaces, circulation, commerce, and leisure in the German metropolis as seen through the eyes of all social classes, from the humblest inhabitants of the city slums, to the great visionaries of the modern city, and the demented dictator resolved to remodel Berlin as Germania. Hardcover632 pagesUniversity of California Press, 20126 x 2 x 9 inchesISBN 9780520270374German History, Architecture, Urban Studies

Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940

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)

By Frank Whitford"Concise, well constructed, entertaining and eminently readable"—Architects’ Journal"A much needed and very lucid account"—The Times Educational SupplementThe aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus. While in operation for only fourteen years before being shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the school left an indelible mark on design as well as the practice of art education throughout the world.Placing the Bauhaus into its socio-historic context, Frank Whitford traces the ideas behind the school’s conception and describes its teaching methods. He examines the activities of the teachers, who included artists as eminent as Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, and the daily lives of the students. This remains the most accessible and highly illustrated introduction to perhaps the most significant design movement of the last hundred years. Paperback216 pagesThames & Hudson, 20206 x 8.4 x 0.7 inchesISBN 9780500204627Movements

Bauhaus (World of Art)

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)

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

By Valentina Grande Illustrated by Sergio Varbella “ . . . a philosophical love letter to the Bauhaus school of design . . . it’s easy to appreciate Varbella’s striking artwork, with each page designed in the Bauhaus style to combine bold, evocative visuals with legibility and clarity of information . . . an erudite celebration of one of the most influential movements in modern art and architecture.”—Publishers WeeklyThe main character of this extraordinary graphic novel is not a person but an idea—the school of Bauhaus, which arose in the wake of World War I, and emerged as the fundamental reference point for virtually every avant-garde artistic movement that followed. Visually arresting illustrations and engaging texts place the novel’s protagonist squarely in the middle of the twentieth-century debate on the relationship between technology and culture.The novel is divided into three chapters that trace the evolution of the Bauhaus, as its center moved across Germany—from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin—and as its philosophy responded to this economically, politically and intellectually highly charged era in Europe. Sergio Varbella’s inventive drawings bring to life the theories of founder Walter Gropius, as well as the basic design ideals of unity and equity. Valentina Grande’s thoughtful texts highlight crucial moments within the movement’s history and in the lives of principal figures such as Klee, Kandinsky, Albers, and Mies van der Rohe. The perfect introduction to a radical but highly influential chapter in the history of design, this novel shows how the Bauhaus school broke down barriers and built up ideals that are still applied today. Also available in German here. Hardcover128 pagesPrestel, 20226.75 x 9.5 inchesISBN 9783791388571Graphic Novel, Design, Bauhaus

Bauhaus Graphic Novel

By Magdalena Droste In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, and sculpture to ceramics.This best-selling reference work is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, the world’s largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Some 575 illustrations including architectural plans, studies, photographs, sketches, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of group gymnastics to drawings guided by Paul Klee, from extensive architectural plans to an infinitely sleek ashtray by Marianne Brandt, the collection brims with the colors, materials, and geometries that made up the Bauhaus vision of a “total” work of art.As we approach the Bauhaus centennial, this is a defining account of its energy and rigor, not only as a trailblazing movement in Modernism but also as a paradigm of art education, where creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to simultaneously functional and beautiful creations. The handy edition features artists Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, and many more. Hardcover552 pages Taschen, 20199 x 1 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783836565547Bauhaus

Bauhaus: Updated Edition

By Gerda Breuer, T'ai Smith, Eva Forgacs, John Maciuika, Rafael Cardoso, Joseph Grima, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Martino Gamper, and Sara Ouhadou; edited by Regina Bittner and Reneé Padt Amid all the hammering, planing, sawing and weaving, the workshops at the Bauhaus Dessau must have been quite loud and active spaces. Craft Becomes Modern: The Bauhaus in the Making looks at the Bauhaus from the perspective of this noisy activity―handcraft. No term was more fiercely disputed there. Although conceived as “laboratories for industry,” a great deal was still done by hand in the Dessau workshops. Workshops at the Bauhaus straddled the different priorities and practical realities at play, falling somewhere between factory and craft business, between free experimentation and industrial contract work. From this field of tension, the Bauhaus tried to define handcraft anew as a utopian pursuit that could coexist with industrial culture. The Bauhaus’ interest in industrialization has been thoroughly studied; the persistence of craft among its teachers and students much less so. Craft Becomes Modern surveys this aspect of the Bauhaus’ teaching and work, and puts it in historical context. And these debates are far from over―this volume includes contributions from a range of contemporary design theorists and practitioners, including Julia Bryan-Wilson, Martino Gamper, John Maciuika, Rafael Cardoso, Joseph Grima, Gerda Breuer, T’ai Smith, Eva Forgacs and Sara Ouhadou, offering new insights for understanding handcraft in the 21st century. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover252 pagesKerber, 20178.3 x 0.8 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9783735603432Bauhaus, Contemporary Design

Craft Becomes Modern: The Bauhaus in the Making

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

Original Price: $65.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Robin Schuldenfrei "In Luxury and Modernism, Robin Schuldenfrei punctures the idealistic, lofty, socialist rhetoric of the Bauhaus’s artist-craftsmen. The Bauhaus, she reveals, imposed an elitist, aristocratic notion of taste on the masses, who largely didn’t want it."—Christopher Turner, Apollo"In Luxury and Modernism, Schuldenfrei confronts the longstanding issue of modern architecture’s elitism, going to the heart of the canon and building up evidence in varied case studies."—Ani Kodzhabasheva, Architectural Histories"Robin Schuldenfrei revisits the inconsistencies between modernism’s rhetoric and its accomplishments, offering a generous reassessment of its proponents’ proclivity for luxury . . . . Luxury and Modernism presents eloquent, well-researched, and courageous scholarship . . . . With her major contribution, Robin Schuldenfrei has given us much to reconsider."—Leslie Van Duzer, Journal of Architectural EducationThis beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and the Werkbund, tracing modernism's lasting allure to its many manifestations of luxury. Robin Schuldenfrei casts the work of legendary figures such as Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in an entirely different light, revealing the complexities and contradictions inherent to modernism's promotion and consumption.Luxury and Modernism shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs––from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects—and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and modes of living. While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served. Schuldenfrei exposes the disconnect between modernism's utopian discourse and its luxury objects and elite architectural commissions. Despite the movement's egalitarian rhetoric, many modern designs addressed the desires of the privileged individual. Yet as Schuldenfrei demonstrates, luxury was integral not only to how modern buildings and objects were designed, manufactured, and sold, but has contributed to modernism's appeal to this day.Hardcover336 pages | 74 color & 126 b/w illustrationsPrinceton University Press, 20187.5 x 10 x 1.5 InchesISBN 9780691175126Architecture, Design, Movement

Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933

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 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 Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen A novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architecture “This book joins the growing body of 21st-century research that successfully unpacks accepted histories to offer fuller, more nuanced interpretations of specific times, places, and concepts. As Pelkonen demonstrates with Untimely Moderns, such reevaluation proves quite timely.”— A. Krista Sykes, Architectural Record Through much of the twentieth century, a diverse group of thinkers engaged in an interdisciplinary conversation about the meaning of time and history for modern art and architecture. The group included architects Louis Kahn, Everett Victor Meeks, James Gamble Rogers, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen; artists Anni and Josef Albers; philosopher Paul Weiss; and art historians Henri Focillon, George Kubler, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, and Vincent Scully. These figures were unified by their resistance to the idea that, to be considered modern, art and architecture had to be of its time, as well as by the pivotal role that Yale University held as a backdrop to their thinking. These thinkers sponsored a new kind of approach, one that Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen terms “untimely,” emphasizing a departure from a sequential course of events. Ideas about temporal duration, new tradition, the presence of the past, and the shape of time were among the concepts they explored. With an interdisciplinary focus, Pelkonen reveals previously unexplored connections among key figures of American intellectual and artistic culture at midcentury whose works and words would shape modern architecture. Hardcover216 pages |10 color + 95 b/w illustrationsYale University Press, 20237.00 x 10.00 inchesISBN 9780300263954Architecture

Untimely Moderns: How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past

By Ursula Oswald-Graf, Aline Marion Steinwender, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Christian Witt-DöringEdited by Ursula Oswald-Graf, Aline Marion Steinwender, Hans-Peter Wipplinger A representative selection of exhibits from the Backhausen archive will be presented to the general public for the first time as part of the Poetry of Ornament exhibition at the Leopold Museum. The show provides an insight into the unique archive holdings of the long-established company, comprising several thousand objects, which were made available to the museum on permanent loan in 2023. The exhibition Poetry of Ornament. The Backhausen archive highlights individual production steps, from the designs and patterns to the application of the fabrics. Hardcover328 pagesWalther König, 2024Text in German and English9.25 x 11 inchesISBN 9783753307503 Design, Textiles

Poesie des Ornaments: Das Backhausen-Archiv | Poetry of the Ornament: The Backhausen Archives

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 bw illustrationsBloomsbury Visual Arts, 20249 x 6 inchesISBN 9781350369412Architecture, Weimar Design

Shop at Neue Architecture