aesthetics | Modernist Architecture

Iakov Chernikhov’s The Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms (1932)

• November 17, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in architecture, functionalism, International Constructivism, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: aesthetics, architectural criticism, architectural theory, architecture, avant-garde, construction, Constructivism, functionalism, Iakov Chernikhov, Leningrad avant-garde, modernism, OSA, Russian avant-garde, socialism, Soviet Union, The Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms, theory of art, translation

Marcel Janco’s “Reflections of Cubism” (1928)

• October 21, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: aesthetics, Braque, Cubism, Marcel Janco, modernism, painting, Picasso, translation

Ernő Kállai’s “Vision and the Law of Form” (1930)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: aesthetics, Erno Kallai, Ernst Kallai, form, modernism, theory of art, translation, vision

Jindřich Štyrský’s and Toyen’s “Artificialism” (1927-1928)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: aesthetics, art, artificialism, Czech modernism, Jindrich Styrsky, manifesto, memory, surrealism, theory of art, Toyen, translation

Excerpts from Karel Teige’s “Poetism Manifesto” (1928)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: aesthetics, architectural theory, art theory, avant-garde, Constructivism, Czech modernism, Karel Teige, manifesto, poetism, translation

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

• October 21, 2010 • 1 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

Kurt Ewald’s “The Beauty of Machines” (1925-6)

• October 20, 2010 • 3 Comments

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Tags: aesthetics, architecture, art, Beauty of Machines, design, functionalism, Kant, Kurt Ewald, mechanicism, technical beauty, translation

Walter Riezler’s “The Purpose and Concept of Technical Beauty” (1928)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: aesthetics, architectural theory, architecture, art criticism, design, functionalism, technical beauty, translation, Walter Riezler

Gerrit Rietveld, “Utility, Construction: (Beauty, Art)” (1927)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism
Tags: aesthetics, architecture, Bolland, De Stijl, Gerrit Rietveld, Tagore, translation

Georg Muche’s “Fine Art and Industrial Form” (1926)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: aesthetics, architecture, design, fine art, Georg Muche, industrialization, modernism, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “On looking at New Painting” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in art, De Stijl, modernism
Tags: abstract art, aesthetics, Dutch modernism, painting, Theo van Doesburg, translation