Lessons from modernism environmental design strategies in architecture, 1925-1970

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

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bone, Kevin (Editor), Hillyer, Steven (Editor), Joh, Sunnie (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y The Monacelli Press 2014
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Lessons from modernism / Kevin Bone
  • Reviewing modernism through the lens of sustainability / David Rifkind
  • Climate map with projects
  • New dwellings for Bordeau / Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret
  • Open-air school / Johannes Duiker
  • Night shelter for the homeless / Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Gerson Ponpeu Pinheiro
  • Karuizawa summer house / Antonin Raymond
  • Weekend house / Albert Frey, A. Lawrence Kocher
  • Housing at Sunila Pulp Mill / Alvar Aalto
  • Jacobs house I / Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Houses in space / Amancio Williams
  • House over the brook / Amancio Williams
  • Jacobs house II / Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Building for the Emprezas Gráficas o Cruizeiro / Oscar Niemeyer
  • Maison Tropicale / Jean Prouvé Workshops
  • Soholm 1 / Arne Jacobsen
  • Bachelor flats / Bronek Katz, Reginald Vaughan
  • Dexter M. Ferry Jr. cooperative house / Marcel Breuer
  • Walker beach house / Paul Rudolph
  • Munkegaard Elementary School / Arne Jacobsen
  • Cocoon house / Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell
  • Pavilion on the Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas / Affonso Eduardo Reidy
  • Valéria P. Cirell house / Lina Bo Bardi
  • Siedlung Halen / Atelier 5
  • School of Plastic Arts, National Arts School / Ricardo Porro
  • House on a cycladic island / Iannis Xenakis
  • House II in Kavouri / Constantinos Decavallas
  • Vacation house on Aegina / Constantinos Decavallas
  • Timeline, selected projects, 1925-1970
  • Lessons from Lessons from Modernism / Daniel A. Barber
  • Modern legacy/sustainable culture / Carl Stein
  • The search for a healthy living and the roots of modernism / Alan Berman
  • Towards a new architecture? / Michael Ben- Eli