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"Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture (Buell Center/Columbia Book of Archite) - Softcover
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Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917–1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy’s entire career and includes his signature essay, “The Symbolic Essence of Modern Architecture of the Twenties and Its Continuing Influence.” The collection also contains critical writings on works by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, and Robert Venturi as well as significant but less-well-known pieces and one previously unpublished text.
Generously illustrated, the book demonstrates the range and depth of Jordy’s thinking. He leads his readers to discover important connections of architecture with art, literature, intellectual history, symbolic structures, social purpose, and community. Mardges Bacon’s insightful introduction to the volume situates Jordy’s essays in historical and architectural context and offers a concise intellectual biography of this original and influential thinker.
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This is the first collection of William H. Jordy’s influential essays on the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. Jordy’s writings―always incisive, witty, and accessible are drawn from his entire career and include critical studies of 20th-century architects and a previously unpublished text. Mardges Bacon’s introduction provides an excellent intellectual biography of the important historian.
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Mardges Bacon is Matthews Distinguished University Professor and professor of art and architecture, Northeastern University.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0300094493
- ISBN 13 9780300094497
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages344
- EditorBacon Mardges
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. xi, 315 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Buell Center/Columbia Book of Architecture. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy's entire career and includes his signature essay, "The Symbolic Essence of Modern Architecture of the Twenties and Its Continuing Influence." The collection also contains critical writings on works by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, and Robert Venturi as well as significant but less-well-known pieces and one previously unpublished text. Generously illustrated, the book demonstrates the range and depth of Jordy's thinking. He leads his readers to discover important connections of architecture with art, literature, intellectual history, symbolic structures, social purpose, and community. Mardges Bacon's insightful introduction to the volume situates Jordy's essays in historical and architectural context and offers a concise intellectual biography of this original and influential thinker." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: PART I. AMERICAN HISTORY AND VISUAL CULTURE. Two temperaments in history: scientific and literary (1951); American architecture between World's Fairs: Richardson, Sullivan, and McKim (1983); Four approaches to regionalism in the visual arts of the 1930s (1977); The Tennessee Valley Authority: lessons for the present and future (1993); Fiasco at Willow Run (1943); PART II. THE ARC OF EUROPEAN MODERNISM. The symbolic essence of modern European architecture of the twenties and its continuing influence (1963); The international style in the 1930s (1965); "I am alone": Le Corbusier, bathrooms, and airplanes (1983); William Lescaze reconsidered (1984); The aftermath of the Bauhaus in America: Gropius, Mies, and Breuer (1968); PART III. THE HISTORIAN AS CRITIC: FORMAL PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AFTER 1945. Seagram assessed (1958); Medical research building for the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1961); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (1974); Robert Venturi and the decorated shed (1985); Bank of China tower (1991). Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 103171
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