Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century /

• Main Author: Zimmerman, Claire 1961- (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
• Subjects: Αρχιτεκτονική, Μοντέρνα > 20ός αιώνας; Αρχιτεκτονική φωτογραφία > Ιστορία > 20ός αιώνας

" One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography--so good at representing a building's lines and planes--a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent, however, that photography did more than reproduce what it depicted. It altered both subject an...

Table of Contents:

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• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Beyond Visibility: Modern Architecture in the Photographic Image
• I. Architecture after Photography
• 1. Bildarchitekturen: Architectural Surface, circa 1914
• 2. Photography into Building: Mies in Barcelona
• 3. Architectural Abstraction: The Tugendhat Photographs
• II. Architects and Architectural Photographs
• 4. Type-Photo: Architectural Photography in Germany
• 5. Aura Deferred: Bauhausbauten Dessau
• 6. The Future in the Present: Erscheinungsform and "The Dwelling," 1927
• III. Imageability
• 7. Promise and Threat: American Photographs in Postwar Germany
• 8. The Photographic Architecture of Hunstanton School
• 9. From Photographic Surface to Image Object: James Stirling's Postmodernism
• Conclusion: Surface Divides
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.