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Manfredo Tafuri’s Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development (1971)

• November 19, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, Futurism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde, urbanism/city planning
Tags: architectural criticism, Architecture and Utopia, Manfredo Tafuri

Le Corbusier’s “CIAM-2 (1929)” (1929)

• September 14, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, urbanism/city planning

Sigfried Giedion’s “Weissenhof Housing Settlement, Stuttgart, 1927″ (1927)

• September 13, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, Sigfried Giedion, translation, Weissenhof

Ernst May’s “Flats for Subsistence Living” (1929)

• September 10, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: 1929, CIAM, Ernst May, modernist architecture, New Frankfurt

CIAM’s La Sarraz Declaration (1928)

• September 8, 2011 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: CIAM, Hannes Meyer, La Sarraz Declaration, Le Corbusier

Marcel Breuer’s “Where do We Stand?” (1934)

• June 28, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Marcel Breuer, Stalin

El Lissitzky’s “‘Americanism’ in European Architecture” (1925)

• June 23, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: El Lissitzky

Arthur Korn’s “Glass in Modern Architecture” (1928)

• November 3, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, Arthur Korn, glass, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, translation, Walter Gropius

Moisei Ginzburg’s “Results and Prospects” (1927)

• November 3, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architectural modernism, internationalism, Moisei Ginzburg, Results and Prospects, Soviet avant-garde, Sovremennaia arkhitektura, translation

Sigfried Giedion’s Building in France, Building in Ferro-concrete (1928)

• November 2, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: architectural history, Auguste Perret, building in France, Constructivism, ferroconcrete, functionalism, Le Corbusier, modern architecture, Sigfried Giedion, translation

Nikolai Miliutin’s Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities (1930)

• November 1, 2010 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde, urbanism/city planning
Tags: city planning, Николай Милютин, Соцгород, Five-Year Plan, Ginzburg, Nikolai Miliutin, OSA, Sotsgorod, urbanism

Arthur Korn’s “Analytical and Utopian Architecture” (1923)

• October 31, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism
Tags: analytical architecture, architectural theory, Arthur Korn, Expressionism, translation, utopian architecture

Walter Gropius’ “Appraisal of the Development of Modern Architecture” (1934)

• October 29, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Adolf Loos, architecture, Auguste Perret, Frank Lloyd Wright, J.J.P. Oud, Le Corbusier, Louis Sullivan, Marinetti, modernism, St. Elia, translation, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ “Sociological Premises for the Minimum Dwelling of Urban Industrial Populations” (1929)

• October 28, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, minimum dwelling, sociology of architecture, standard housing, translation, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ “Houses, Walk-ups or High-rise Apartment Blocks?” (1931)

• October 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, urbanism/city planning
Tags: apartments, Bauhaus, CIAM, city planning, internationalism, town planning, translation, urbanism, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ “Housing Industry” (1924)

• October 28, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, construction, dry assembly, housing industry, industrialization, standardization interchangeable parts, translation, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius’ The New Architecture and the Bauhaus (1925)

• October 28, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural education, architectural pedagogy, Bauhaus, Bauhaus Dessau, functionalism, industrialization, modernism, new architecture, standardization, translation, Walter Gropius

Karel Teige’s “Mundaneum” (1929)

• October 27, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, architecture, Constructivism, functionalism, Hannes Meyer, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, modernism, Mundaneum, Otto Wagner, translation

Le Corbusier’s “In Defense of Architecture” (1929)

• October 27, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Aleksandr Vesnin, architecture, controversy, criticism, Hannes Meyer, Ivan Leonidov, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, League of Nations palace, modernism, Mundaneum, translation

Karel Teige’s Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia (1929)

• October 26, 2010 • 6 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: academicism, Adolf Loos, architecture, architecture and society, Berlage, Brno, Czech modernism, Czech Secession, Czechoslovakia, El Lissitzky, formalism, functionalism, historicism, international constructivism, J.J.P. Oud, Jan Kotera, Jiri Kroha, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, Mies van Der Rohe, modern architecture, Prague, revolution and architecture, revolutionary architecture, translation, van de Velde, Walter Gropius

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Art Criticism” (1930)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, art criticism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, theory, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “The New Era” (1930)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, translation

Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe’s “Expositions” (1928)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, expositions, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Policy of the Stuttgart Exhibition” (1927)

• October 25, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural policies, Bauhaus, housing, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, Stuttgart, translation, Weissenhof

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “A Letter on Form in Architecture” (1924)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: anti-formalism, architecture, form, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, translation, Walter Riezler

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Architecture and the Times” (1924)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, avant-garde, building methods, concrete, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernity, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “The Industrialization of Building Methods” (1924)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, building construction, industrialization, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, standardization, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Aphorisms on Architecture and Form” (1923)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: aphorisms, architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “The Office Building” (1923)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: article, ferro-concrete, functionalism, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, office-buildings, steel, translation

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Two Glass Skyscrapers” (1922)

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: Bauhaus, glass architecture, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, skyscrapers, translation

Hans Richter’s “Toward Constructivism” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art movements, Constructivism, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter, internationalism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Henryk Berlewi’s “The Arts Abroad” (1922-23)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Bauhaus, Constructivism, Henryk Berlewi, international congress, international constructivism, Lissitzky, Malevich, Mies van Der Rohe, Purism, Suprematism, Tatlin, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Herwarth Walden” (1928)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: albert gleizes, archipenko, august macke, boccioni, campendonk, delaunay, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, feininger, fernand léger, franz marc, herwarth walden, jean metzinger, kandinsky, kirchner, klee, kokoschka, Marc Chagall, memorial, molzahn, nolde, pechstein, schmidt-rottluff, schwitters, translation

Farkas Molnár’s “Life at the Bauhaus” (1925)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural education, architectural theory, architecture, Bauhaus, dancing, El Lissitzky, Farkas Molnár, Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, translation, Walter Gropius

Mart Stam’s “Three Houses at the Stuttgart Exhibition” (1927)

• October 23, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: functionalism, Mart Stam, mass housing, minimum dwelling, Stuttgart, town planning, translation, Weissenhof

Ernő Kállai’s (pseudonym Péter Mátyás’) “Moholy-Nagy” (1921)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: art, Cubism, Dadaism, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Hungarian avant-garde, Moholy-Nagy, theory of art, translation

László Moholy-Nagy’s “Photography Unparalleled” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: aesthetic theory, Bauhaus, camera, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, light, modernism, perspective, photography, photomontage, theory of art, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Painting and Photography” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Durer, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, Lissitzky, modernism translation, Neue Sachlichkeit, painting, photography

Willi Baumeister’s, Adolf Behne’s, Max Burchartz’s, Will Grohmann’s, Wassily Kandinsky’s, Lajos Kassák’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, Piet Mondrian’s, and Georg Muche’s “Debate on Ernő Kállai’s Article ‘Painting and Photography’” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Adolf Behne, facture, Georg Muche, internationalism, Lajos Kassak, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Max Burchartz, painting, photography, Piet Mondrian, theory of art, translation, Wassily Kandinsky, Will Grohmann, Willi Baumeister

Ernő Kállai’s “Reply to the Debate on My Article ‘Painting and Photography’” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: debate, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, facture, modernism, painting, photography, theory of art, translation

Tadeusz Peiper’s “At the Bauhaus” (1927)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: abstract art, aesthetics, functionalism, internationalism, Kazimir Malevich, Lissitzky, Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe, Tadeusz Peiper, translation, Walter Gropius

Karel Teige’s “Ten Years of the Bauhaus” (1929-1930)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Bauhaus, Constructivism, De Stijl, Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Karel Teige, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Malevich, Mies van Der Rohe, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Exerpts from Ernő Kállai’s “Ten Years of Bauhaus” (1930)

• October 21, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural criticism, art criticism, Bauhaus, Erno Kallai, functionalism, Mies van Der Rohe, modernism, style, translation, Walter Gropius

Ludwig Hilberseimer’s “Construction and Form” (1924)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, Architecture and Form, Bauhaus, building, concrete, construction, ferroconcrete, G, Ludwig Hilberseimer, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “bauhaus and society” (1929)

• October 20, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, architecture and society, art and life, Bauhaus, building, Hannes Meyer, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “building” (1928)

• October 20, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architectural theory, architecture, art and life, Bauhaus, building, construction, functionalism, Hannes Meyer, modernism, translation

Hannes Meyer’s “The New World” (1926)

• October 20, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism
Tags: architecture, automobiles, Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, machinery, modernism, The New World, translation

A. Gatman’s “Hannes Meyer on the Bauhaus at Moscow” (1930)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, building, capitalism, Hannes Meyer, planning, proletariat, socialism, Soviet Union, translation, USSR

“Reports from Moscow: Taut’s Return from Moscow” (1933)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, functionalism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, Bruno Taut, Soviet Union, Stalin, translation, USSR

Hannes Meyer’s “Construction, Construction Workers, and Technicians in the Soviet Union” (1931)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, Bauhaus, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, internationalism, modernism, socialism, Soviet Union, translation

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