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Roots of Modernist Church Architecture First of all, it is well understood that the philosophical basis for Modernist architecture can be discovered, like her theological cousin, in the French Enlightenment and German rationalism. Aesthetically, Modernist architecture was inspired by works of engineering including bridges, industrial buildings, and temporary exposition halls which were large, economical, and built fast. Architecture, having lost its ability to signify the sacred, became seen as merely providing for the assembly's material or functional needs. www.adoremus.org /1097-Stroik.html

ORGANIC But by 1939 Wright was a national celebrity and was able to give the expression, organic architecture, that special aura of American romanticism: cloeness to the land, celebration of the natural, warmth and comfort as of the burning fire in the hearth, and the rejection of the artifice associated with European rationalism. In my profession of architectural history, the word organic immediately brings to mind Frank Lloyd Wright and his celebrated, if never clearly defined, organic architecture. His book, An Organic Architecture, did not get published until 1939, after the completion of the Falling Water in Pennsylvania; but he started developing the notion as early as 1908. www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/tkitao1/organicfood.html   (879 words)

Society for Philosophy and Technology - volume 2, number 1 Architecture becomes the simple combining of set procedures, controlled by computers, and reduced to a single pattern essentially a variation on an eccentric deconstructive rationalism. It is no surprise, then, that almost no alternative architectural movements (think of Stalinist architecture) have managed to break through the basic patterns and philosophy of modern architecture. The result is a second stage of academic architecture: modern academic architecture, which is no longer aesthetically confronted either by the earlier vernacular architecture or by nature. scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v2_n1html/alonso.html   (4094 words)

Anti Free Software Virus Rationalism, empiricism, structuralism, poststructuralism, and phenomenology are some directions from philosophy card software influencing architecture. There are cases where it is a good idea to go first to a disambiguation page, but in the English language I cannot think of a better example of a page that should NOT be primarily a disambiguation than apple. But everything under Apple (disambiguation) is named for the fruit; people looking for Apple Computer are entirely likely to search directly for Apple Computer; people looking for Apple Records will say "Apple Records" -- because everyone indeed knows that "Apple" itself is a software.funhosts.com /anti/free-software-virus.html   (1053 words)

Amazon.ca: New Organic Architecture: The Breaking Wave: Books However, the eclecticism of Pearson's choice is justified, for organic architecture has always been the province of defiant individualists, from Wright on. James Wines's Green Architecture (LJ 10/15/00) draws a more complete and balanced picture of the increasingly influential trend toward organic design and environmental sustainability, making it a first choice for public and academic libraries. Some of the 28 architects who have contributed to this stimulating anthology might be surprised by the company they are in, which ranges from the cool rationalism of Tadao Ando to the romantic nationalism of Imre Makovecz. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0520232895   (634 words)

Bunshaft & Neimeyer Concrete, to which architecture is integrated, through which it is able to discard the foregone conclusions of rationalism, with its monotony and repetitious solutions. A concern for beauty, a zest for fantasy, and an ever-present element of surprise bear witness that today's architecture is not a minor craft bound to straight-edge rules, but an architecture imbued with technology: light, creative and unfettered, seeking out its architectural scene. His astute perception that architecture is a joint venture between client and designer has generated mutual respect, and creative collaborations producing great building with an appropriate fusion of humanity and functionality for the people who inhabit and use his structures. www.pritzkerprize.com /bunnei.htm   (634 words)

Bunshaft & Neimeyer Concrete, to which architecture is integrated, through which it is able to discard the foregone conclusions of rationalism, with its monotony and repetitious solutions. His astute perception that architecture is a joint venture between client and designer has generated mutual respect, and creative collaborations producing great building with an appropriate fusion of humanity and functionality for the people who inhabit and use his structures. A concern for beauty, a zest for fantasy, and an ever-present element of surprise bear witness that today's architecture is not a minor craft bound to straight-edge rules, but an architecture imbued with technology: light, creative and unfettered, seeking out its architectural scene. www.pritzkerprize.com /bunnei.htm   (2134 words)

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE From a purely architectural point of view, Dwyer’s designs are among the most interesting of all those published during the 19th century in America - they have about them a sense of the rationalism of the French architects of the same period as well as obvious references to English pattern book designs. The author attempts to show "as many distinct types of the colonial architecture of New England as possible, from the rude farmhouse of the first settlers to the elegant mansion of a later generation." The text is a curious combination of anecdote and documentary history. DERBY, NELSON L. Report on architecture and the material of construction. www.cbwoodbooks.com /american_architecture2.htm   (2134 words)

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE From a purely architectural point of view, Dwyer’s designs are among the most interesting of all those published during the 19th century in America - they have about them a sense of the rationalism of the French architects of the same period as well as obvious references to English pattern book designs. The author attempts to show "as many distinct types of the colonial architecture of New England as possible, from the rude farmhouse of the first settlers to the elegant mansion of a later generation." The text is a curious combination of anecdote and documentary history. DERBY, NELSON L. Report on architecture and the material of construction. www.cbwoodbooks.com /american_architecture2.htm   (2134 words)

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE From a purely architectural point of view, Dwyer’s designs are among the most interesting of all those published during the 19th century in America - they have about them a sense of the rationalism of the French architects of the same period as well as obvious references to English pattern book designs. The author attempts to show "as many distinct types of the colonial architecture of New England as possible, from the rude farmhouse of the first settlers to the elegant mansion of a later generation." The text is a curious combination of anecdote and documentary history. DERBY, NELSON L. Report on architecture and the material of construction. www.cbwoodbooks.com /american_architecture2.htm   (2134 words)

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE From a purely architectural point of view, Dwyer’s designs are among the most interesting of all those published during the 19th century in America - they have about them a sense of the rationalism of the French architects of the same period as well as obvious references to English pattern book designs. The author attempts to show "as many distinct types of the colonial architecture of New England as possible, from the rude farmhouse of the first settlers to the elegant mansion of a later generation." The text is a curious combination of anecdote and documentary history. DERBY, NELSON L. Report on architecture and the material of construction. www.cbwoodbooks.com /american_architecture2.htm   (2134 words)

Frances Loeb Library: GSD Video List Videotapes of the series of lectures, delivered at Cornell and Harvard in the Fall and Spring of 2000/2001, concerned with architectural history, criticism and design history of the 1970s.This set comprises lectures 2-8,lecture 1 ("Europe and America; rationalism and its effects") was not produced. Lecture on the History of Architecture, jointly sponsored by the GSD, the Dept. of Classics and the Dept. of Fine Arts. "Architectural historians of the twentieth century commonly refer to the years between the end of the World War II and the student demonstrations of 1968 as a watershed era, one in which the changing cultural circumstances forced architects to critique the increasingly consolidated ideologies of the modern movement. www.gsd.harvard.edu /library/visual_resources/gsdvid.htm   (2134 words)

About Scotland Edinburgh New Town 18th century Architects It was this development of rationalism in philosophy and of regularity in music and poetry with the elevation of the Greek and Latin classics as models in literature and with the general tendency towards clear rules and principals that were the true concepts behind the actual architecture. Throughout the 1700s thousands of classically conceived houses were built along roads and around squares which were all planned with an order and regularity which many saw as a return to a Golden Age of civilised urban living. Gibbs and Campbell both produced books full of detailed drawings and plans of Classical Orders and ornamentation which could be used by others, and which served as an inspiration not only for builders but also for their clients. www.aboutscotland.com /edin/jane.html   (490 words)

Amazon.com: Kohn Pederson Fox : Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992: Books: Warren James Thomas L. Schumacher is a professor of architecture at the University of Maryland and the author of Surface and Symbol: Giuseppe Terragni and the Architecture of Italian Rationalism. Christian Norberg-Schulz is a professor of architecture at the University of Oslo, Norway, and the author of Architecture: Meaning and Place and Genius Loci: Toward a Phenomenology of Architecture, both published by Rizzoli. Kohn Pedersen Fox: Architecture and Urbanism, 1993-2002 by Ian Luna www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0847814874?v=glance   (775 words)

History & styles: Protestant architecture between Rationalism and Jugendstil (ca. 1895-1925) In the 1920's influences of Amsterdam School Expressionism gradually replaced Rationalism as the favoured protestant style of architecture. Despite these influences, this style of protestant architecture usually is simply called Rationalism as well, while other sources simply refer to it as Jugendstil. The Roman-Catholics later followed suit in the form of the Delft School of Traditionalistic architecture. www.archimon.nl /history/protrationalism.html   (390 words)

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE From a purely architectural point of view, Dwyer’s designs are among the most interesting of all those published during the 19th century in America - they have about them a sense of the rationalism of the French architects of the same period as well as obvious references to English pattern book designs. The author attempts to show "as many distinct types of the colonial architecture of New England as possible, from the rude farmhouse of the first settlers to the elegant mansion of a later generation." The text is a curious combination of anecdote and documentary history. DERBY, NELSON L. Report on architecture and the material of construction. www.cbwoodbooks.com /american_architecture2.htm   (390 words)

Architecture & ideology by Roger Kimball If the architecture we have been accustomed to calling modernist errs in the direction of severity and hyper-rationalism, much of the architecture that has arisen to challenge it has erred in the direction of silliness, grim or fatuous as the case may be. Scott speaks partly as an historian of architecture, partly as a custodian of the humanist values that were articulated with luxurious richness in Renaissance architecture. “Architecture,” as Scott put it, “is subservient to the general uses of mankind.” We approach architecture with what Scott, echoing the famous Kantian formula, calls a “disinterested desire for beauty,” but this desire is tethered by continual reference to the quotidian inventory of physical, psychological, and social imperatives. www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/dec02/architect.htm   (5619 words)

Frances Loeb Library: GSD Video List Videotapes of the series of lectures, delivered at Cornell and Harvard in the Fall and Spring of 2000/2001, concerned with architectural history, criticism and design history of the 1970s.This set comprises lectures 2-8,lecture 1 ("Europe and America; rationalism and its effects") was not produced. Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia. Lecture on the History of Architecture, jointly sponsored by the GSD, the Dept. of Classics and the Dept. of Fine Arts. www.gsd.harvard.edu /library/visual_resources/gsdvid.htm   (5619 words)

Periferia: New Urbanism Bibliography "Rationality and Rationalism: The Theory and Practice of Site Planning In Modern Architecture, 1905-1933." AA Files. Making Towns: Principles and Techniques, College Park, Maryland: School of Architecture, University of Maryland, 1994. "The Only Path for Architecture." Oppositions: A Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture. www.periferia.org /publications/cnubibliography.html   (5619 words)

Steiner House - Adolf Loos - Great Buildings Online Because of its severe and advanced modernity of form it has been adopted in the histories of contemporary architecture as an example of the phase of transition and an anticipation of the language of Rationalism. Search the RIBA architecture library catalog for more references on Steiner House "As the authorities would only grant planning permission for a one-storey house with a converted mansard roof, while the clients wanted a comprehensive spatial programme, the compromise was this unusual piece of architecture. www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Steiner_House.html   (5619 words)

Gothic novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Gothic in architecture was a reaction to the classical architecture that was a hallmark of the Age of Reason. In a way similar to the Gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the Gothic became linked with an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrill of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime and a quest for atmosphere. The term 'gothic' was originally a disparaging term applied to a style of medieval architecture (Gothic architecture) and art (Gothic art). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gothic_novel   (1021 words)

Gothic novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Gothic in architecture was a reaction to the classical architecture that was a hallmark of the Age of Reason. In a way similar to the Gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the Gothic became linked with an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrill of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime and a quest for atmosphere. The term 'gothic' was originally a disparaging term applied to a style of medieval architecture (Gothic architecture) and art (Gothic art). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gothic_novel   (1021 words)

John Lobell Kahn's resolution was first fully expressed in the Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building at the University of Pennsylvania (above), which he started in 1957, and which was quickly recognized as a significant challenge to the previous course of modern architecture. In the 17 th century, Newton's successful use of mathematics to describe both Earthly and celestial mechanics lent rationalism great support, and the 18 th century Enlightenment saw it extended from the natural sciences to human affairs. By the 19 th century the Industrial Revolution had seemingly confirmed the powers of rationalism not only to understand nature, but also to conquer nature; then, with Marx and Freud, rationalism was extended to history and consciousness. johnlobell.com /publications/SmithsnKhn.htm   (1021 words)

Aldo Rossi - Great Buildings Online Although Rossi emphasizes the autonomy of architecture within a given culture, he also stresses the importance of the transformation of Rationalism. Rossi taught at several architecture schools, including Milan's Politecnico, Zurich's ETH, New York's Cooper Union, and Venice's Instituto Universitario di Architettura. Search the RIBA architecture library catalog for more references on Aldo Rossi www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Aldo_Rossi.html   (228 words)

Resurgence issue 227 - ORGANIC FORMS by Harland Walshaw Hundertwasser's precepts and little homilies on architecture have a somewhat pretentious ring to them, especially perhaps to English ears: Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture; Everything situated horizontally in the open air belongs to nature; The Third Skin in the Third District. Of course, the Modern Movement came to dominate twentieth-century architecture, and it was against this that Hundertwasser in his turn was to rebel: "The irresponsible vandalism of the constructive, functional architects is well known. Friedensreich Hundertwasser was born in Vienna in 1928 as Friedrich Stowasser. www.resurgence.org /resurgence/issues/walshaw227.htm   (228 words)

acq2_98 NA1123.T4 S37 1990 - GIFT Schumacher, Thomas L. Surface and Symbol: Giuseppe Terragni and the Architecture of Italian Rationalism. Orange Roofs, Golden Arches: The Architecture of American Chain Restaurants. The Search for a Style: Country Life and Architecture 1897-1935. alpha.fdu.edu /fm-library/acq2_98.html   (1207 words)

Gothic Style: artsparx home improvement style archive This Romantic backlash against rationalism eventually produced the architectural movement known as the Gothic Revival. This study of Gothic architecture traces the meaning and development of the Gothic style through medieval churches across Europe. This superbly illustrated book is the only one of its kind to trace the history of Romanesque and Gothic architecture and sculpture in all of France, focusing especially on the exalted ecclesiastical structures—and the splendid sculpture, painting, illuminated manuscripts, and stained glass made for these churches, monasteries, abbeys, and cathedrals—created by inspired "builders for God." www.artsparx.com /gothicstyle.asp   (786 words)

Gothic novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Gothic in architecture was a reaction to the classical architecture that was a hallmark of the Age of Reason. In a way similar to the Gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the Gothic became linked with an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrill of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime and a quest for atmosphere. The opprobrious term "Gothick" was embraced by the 18th-century proponents of the Gothic revival, a forerunner of the Romantic genres. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gothic_literature   (1039 words)

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