Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 205 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 1187 g
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 205 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 1187 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-07442-9
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made.This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, selects twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive overview of Scully's distinguished career and introduces each essay, skillfully setting the scholarly and cultural scene. The selections address almost all of modern architecture's major themes and together go a long way toward defining what constitutes the contemporary experience of architecture and urbanism. Each is characteristically Scully--provocative, yet precise in detail and observation, written with passionate clarity. They document Scully's seminal views on the relationship between the natural and the built environment and trace his progressively intense concern with the fabric of the street and of our communities. The essays also highlight Scully's engagement with the careers of so many of the twentieth century's most significant architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn to Robert Venturi.In the tradition of great intellectual biographies, this finely made book chronicles our most influential architectural historian and critic. It is a gift to architecture and its history.
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Acknowledgments 6
Introduction 8
Vincent Scully: A Bibliographical Sketch 12
Chapter 1: American Villas: Inventiveness in the American Suburb from Downing to Wright 34
Chapter 2: Wright vs. International Style 64
Chapter 3: Archetype and Order in Recent American Architecture 64
Chapter 4: Modern Architecture: Toward a Redefinition of Style 74
Chapter 5: The Nature of the Classical in Art 88
Chapter 6: Frank Lloyd Wright and Twentieth[Century Style 106
Chapter 7: The Death of the Street 120
Chapter 8: Doldrums in the Suburbs 128
Chapter 9: RIBA Discourse 1969: A Search for Principle between Two Wars 142
Chapter 10: Where is Modern Architecture Going? 158
Chapter 11: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Stuff of Dreams 170
Chapter 12: Architecture, Sculpture, and painting: Environment, Act, and Illusion 198
Chapter 13: Le Corbusier, 1922[1965 236
Chapter 14: Introduction to The Lois I. Kahn Archive: Personal Drawings 250
Chapter 15: Robert Venturi's Gentle Architecture 260
Chapter 16: Architecture: The Natural and the Mammade 282
Chapter 17: Louis I. Kahn and the Ruins of Rome 298
Chapter 18: Everybody Needs Everything 320
Chapter 19: The Architecture of Community 340
Chapter 20: America at the Millennium: Architecture and Community 358
Bibliography of Vincent Scully's Writings 368
Index 384
Text and Photography Credits 398
