In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an entirely new mode of operation, with original and captivating designs made in the USA. In Domesticity at War, Beatriz Colomina shows how postwar American architectu[...]
Through a series of close readings of two major figures of the modern movement, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, Beatriz Colomina argues that architecture only becomes modern in its engagement with the mass media, and that in so doing it radically displaces the traditional sense of space and subjectivit[...]
This book explores the heritage of Bruno Mathsson, one of Swedish modernism's leading designers, through two of his architectural works.
In Frösakull - a house that Mathsson both designed and lived in Olsson has interacted with the remains of the house, and like Mathsson he has experimen[...]
Beatriz Colomina presenterar i denna bok en rad ingående studier av bl. a Adolf Loos och Le Corbusier, två av den moderna arkitekturens förgrundsgestalter.[...]
An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period that were published in over a dozen [...]