Claire Zimmerman

Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Claire Zimmerman reveals how photography profoundly influenced architectural design in the past century, playing an instrumental role in the evolution of modern architecture. This richly illustrated work shows, for the first time, how new ideas and new buildings arose from the interplay of photography and architectureâ transforming how we see the world and how we act on it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1004g
• ISBN-13: 9780816683352
• ISBN-10: 0816683352
• Artikelnr.: 40051287

Autorenporträt

Claire Zimmerman is associate professor of architectural history at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Mies van der Rohe, 1886–1969: The Structure of Space and coeditor of Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgments
Introduction. Beyond Visibility: Modern Architecture in the Photographic
Image
I. Architecture after Photography1. Bildarchitekturen: Architectural
Surface, circa 19142. Photography into Building: Mies in Barcelona3.
Architectural Abstraction: The Tugendhat Photographs
II. Architects and Architectural Photographs4. Type-Photo: Architectural
Photography in Germany5. Aura Deferred: Bauhausbauten Dessau6. The Future
in the Present: Erscheinungsform and “The Dwelling,” 1927
III. Imageability7. Promise and Threat: American Photographs in Postwar
Germany8. The Photographic Architecture of Hunstanton School9. From
Photographic Surface to Image Object: James Stirling’s Postmodernism
Conclusion: Surface Divides
NotesBibliographyIndex