Posts Tagged ‘modernism’
The Centre des Monuments Nationaux conserves, restores, and manages nearly 100 national monuments, opening up these sites of social, cultural, and architectural history for public consumption. The website uses a geographic search feature to locate pages devoted to the Pantheon, Tours Cathedral, the house of George Sand, and many more. Monument pages include photographs and videos, points of historical interests, details about tours and other activities on site, and a list of literature specific to the building.
Tags: architectural history, Baroque, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, conservation, cultural history, France, French history, gardens, modern, modernism, neoclassicism, preservation, renassiance, social history, tourism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 23, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur consists of around 2 million images of art and architecture located in Germany and throughout Europe. While Bildindex is a German-language site, it is navigable for the English speaker through interactive features that provide information about the current location and history of the image object. The product of over 30 years of collection development, Bildindex hosts a wide range of image types (drawings, photographs, paintings, prints, plans) as well as special collections and continues to grow by sponsoring further digitization projects.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bildindex, drawings, Europe, European architecture, German architecture, Germany, Italian architecture, manuscripts, modernism, painting, photographs, plans, Renaissance, search tool
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 17, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
TED conferences and its subsidiary the TEDTalks video website “has a love affair with buildings.” Featuring over 21 conference videos on its Architectural Inspiration page, TED has assembled thematic discussions from Moshe Safdie, Nathaniel Kahn, Daniel Libeskind and more focusing on sustainability, historicism, food culture, and uniqueness as it relates to the built environment and design inspiration.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, criticism, food culture, historicism, modern architecture, modernism, planning, romanticism, streaming video, sustainability, TED, urban design, urbanism, videos
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 22, 2009 in architectural history, architecture | No Comments »
Reed College Artists’ Book website is an online reference guide to artists‘ books and the significant role they have played among the avant-garde of Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the United States, from the turn of the last century to the present. The Reed College collection holds approximately 1,000 books including the most significant 20th century and contemporary artists’ books, among them livre d’artiste, avant-garde, conceptual, and contemporary works. Individual web pages for sixteen of the most significant book works contain a gallery of images to navigate the entire work, a brief biography on the artist, a description of the book and the books colophon.
Tags: art, art history, avant-garde, book history, conceptual art, Contemporary Art, cultural history, El Lissitzky, Fernand Léger, modern, modernism, visual resource collections
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 4, 2009 in art, images | No Comments »
The Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm, Sweden has created a Picture Bank that contains 2,500 digital photographs and drawings primarily documenting twentieth-century Swedish design. The images available through Arkitekturmuseet showcase Scandinavian architecture and urbanism while illustrating the lifestyle of the modern. Building and formal typologies represented include industry and retail trade, sport and leisure facilities, the landscape, furniture and furnishings, and interior design for both private and public buildings.
Tags: Arkitekturmuseet, images, industrial design, interior design, modern, modern architecture, modernism, Scandinavian architecture, Swedish architecture, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 30, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
ARTstor is working with The Museum of Modern Art to share more than 1,400 images of modern art including images of works executed by Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Lee Krasner, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and others. These selections will join two other collections that MoMA has shared through ARTstor: the Architecture and Design and the Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection from The Museum of Modern Art Archives.
Tags: ARTstor, modern, Modern Art, modernism, MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 29, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, photography | No Comments »
Photo by Steve Brosnahan from The Glass House website.
The Philip Johnson Glass House Oral History Project gathers together the memories of Johnson’s friends and colleagues and has created two video documentaries in order to broaden our understanding of modern design. The first two films produced by the project, include Architecture and Influence, and Frank Stella: Return to the Glass House and are viewable here.
Tags: documentary, Frank Stella, Glass House, modernism, Philip Johnson, video
Posted by Joan Winter on September 25, 2009 in architectural history, art, words | No Comments »
Irwin House 1953, Victor Christ-Janer
The Philip Johnson Glass House Historical Trust is creating a narrative survey of the 91 existing modern homes in New Canaan to provide a “criteria of significance” for their future preservation. In an effort to circumvent their demolition, the Trust is documenting the significance of the remaining modern homes in New Canaan, potentially utilizing this survey as a preservation tool and model for other communities whose historic architecture is threatened by surrounding development. The Trust also hopes to expand the online database to other clusters of modern homes.
Tags: Edward Durrell-Stone, Eliot Noyes, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glass House, historic preservation, Marcel Breuer, modernism, New Canaan, Philip Johnson
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 16, 2009 in architectural history, architecture | No Comments »
Robin Hood Gardens, Courtesy of Steve Cadam
Is Robin Hood Gardens, the public housing complex in East London designed by Alison and Peter Smithson, an architectural masterpiece worthy of preservation in the face of redevelopment?
Since 2008 Building Design magazine and the Twentieth Century Society have campaigned to list Robin Hood Gardens as a national landmark. However English Heritage recently denied the request, claiming that the complex was not influential, had failed to create housing “on human terms”, and that the the vast majority of residents support its demolition. However preservation advocates argue that the housing complex is a pivotal example of the “streets in the sky” movement.
View a video produced by the Guardian UK to learn more about why the building is both loved and hated by residents and critics.
View an audio slide show from the Twentieth Century Society, documenting its campaign to refurbish and prevent demolition of Robin Hood Gardens.
Tags: brutalism, modernism, preservation
Posted by Joan Winter on July 29, 2009 in architectural history, architecture | No Comments »
Eames House, courtesy of blanco teko on Flickr
Charles and Ray Eames’ home and studio in Pacific Palisades, California, turns 60 this weekend. Case Study House No. 8 is an icon of modernist design and a National Historic Landmark. Read more in the New York Times article A Prefab Home that Dazzles Still.
Tags: Charles and Ray Eames, modernism, preservation
Posted by Joan Winter on June 18, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
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