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Building a new New World

Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

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Building a new New World

Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the 19th century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the 20th century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, following a period of strategic competition. This first major study of Amerikanizm in the architecture of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.

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Yale University Press

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0300248156

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9780300248159

Documents : English translation

By: Le Corbusier,Jean-Louis Cohen,Tim Benton

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By: Le Corbusier,Jean-Louis Cohen,Tim Benton

The 70 page booklet accompanying Le Corbusier : Le Grand contains a French/English glossary of architectural terms and translations of the foreign language documents.

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768

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0714849278

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9780714849270

Urban Textures | Yves Lion

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

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Urban Textures | Yves Lion

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

Yves Lion, geboren 1945 in Casablanca, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Architekten Frankreichs. Seit dreißig Jahren spielt Lion in der französischen Architektur und auch der Architekturdebatte eine eminente Rolle. Dieses Buch des führenden Architekturhistorikers Jean-Louis Cohen versucht zum ersten Mal eine Zusammenschau seines Wirkens. Thematisch geordnet spannt Cohen einen großen Bogen und beschreibt über drei Jahrzehnte hinweg Leitmotive und Schwerpunkte in Lions Arbeit, darunter seine Auseinandersetzung mit urbanistischen Themen, dem Wohnungsbau oder seinen Diskurs u.a. mit James Stirling, Charles Jencks, Aldo van Eyck oder Bernard Tschumi. Illustriert wird Cohens Essay durch Abbildungen der Bauten Lions, die ausführlich dokumentiert werden. Dazu gehören die Oper in Nantes, die Botschaft Frankreichs in Beirut oder das Maison européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Jean-Louis Cohen, geboren 1949 in Paris, ist Architekt und Autor vieler Publikationen, darunter Mies van der Rohe und Paris: L’Architecture 1900–2000. Er hat an verschiedenen Universitäten wie Paris VIII und New York University unterrichtet.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3764376570

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9783764376574

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Third and updated edition

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Third and updated edition

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the leading figures of twentieth-century architecture. For architects and many others who are committed to the modernist tradition, he is a pivotal figure. With in-depth, scholarly essays and opulent photographs and plans, this book traces the multifaceted development of his work, including his first Berlin buildings, his villa projects, his work at the Bauhaus in the 1930s, and his American projects of the postwar years. Jean-Louis Cohen was the director of the Institut français d’architecture until 2003 and is currently a professor at New York University. He has an established reputation as a leading international historian of architecture. His broad and encompassing perspective makes this book a reliable and comprehensive introduction to the work of Mies van der Rohe. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe gehörte zu den führenden Persönlichkeiten in der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts und ist für Architekten und viele andere, die sich der Tradition der Moderne verpflichtet haben, eine Schlüsselfigur. Mit wissenschaftlich fundierten Texten und opulentem Plan- und Fotomaterial zeichnet das Buch die facettenreiche Entwicklung seines Werkes nach: Die ersten Berliner Bauten, seine Villenprojekte und Tätigkeit am Bauhaus in den dreißiger Jahren sowie die amerikanischen Projekte der Nachkriegszeit. Jean-Louis Cohen, bis 2003 Direktor des Institut français d’architecture und zur Zeit Professor an der New York University, hat einen etablierten Ruf als international führender Architekturhistoriker. Seine umfassende Perspektive macht das Buch zu einer verlässlichen Einführung in das Werk Mies van der Rohes.

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192

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Birkhäuser

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3035616817

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9783035616811

The Future of Architecture Since 1889

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

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The Future of Architecture Since 1889

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

Truly far-ranging -- both conceptually and geographically -- The Future of Architecture Since 1889 is a rich, compelling history that will shape future thinking out this period for years to come. Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today's most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an authoritative and compelling account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from industrialization through computerization, and linking architecture to developments in art, technology, urbanism and critical theory. Encompassing both well-known masters and previously neglected but significant architects, this book also reflects Cohen's deep knowledge of architecture across the globe, and in places such Eastern Europe and colonial Africa and South America that have rarely been included in histories of this period. It is richly illustrated not only with buildings, projects and plans, but also with publications, portraits, paintings, diagrams, film stills, and exhibitions, showing the immense diversity of architectural thought and production throughout the twentieth century.

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Phaidon Press

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0714845981

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9780714845982

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

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191

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Birkhauser Architecture

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376437960X

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9783764379605

Atelier Kempe Thill

Villa Urbaine

By: Jean-Louis Cohen,André Kempe,Oliver Thill,Atelier Kempe Thill

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Atelier Kempe Thill

Villa Urbaine

By: Jean-Louis Cohen,André Kempe,Oliver Thill,Atelier Kempe Thill

Paris, Antwerp, Zwolle, and Bremen--the Atelier Kempe Thill works in these cities on the building typology of the urban villa, which today essentially characterizes housing in Western Europe as a vision of contemporary living. The projects presented in this publication are all based on this basic type of structure. However, very distinct interpretations develop from specific national and regional features and their conscious conceptualization. The volume traces the projects by the Ateliers Kempe Thill in their relationship of tension between architectural design and lifeworld-related conditions. Numerous illustrations as well as texts by well-known architects and critics shed light on the buildings and their processes of origin. The catalogue thus provides a panorama of the conditions under which collective housing is currently developing in Europe.

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Hatje Cantz Verlag

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3775742131

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9783775742139

Liquid Stone

New Architecture in Concrete

By: Jean-Louis Cohen,G. Martin Moeller

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Liquid Stone

New Architecture in Concrete

By: Jean-Louis Cohen,G. Martin Moeller

In Liquid Stone architects, engineers, and scholars explore the changing nature of concrete from both technical and aesthetic perspectives. More than thirty buildings by leading international architects such as Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Norman Foster, and Santiago Calatrava demonstrate through detailed descriptions, photographs, and technical drawings the remarkable new architectural and engineering accomplishments taking form at present and the promising future of this dynamic medium."--BOOK JACKET.

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260

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568985703

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9781568985701

The Lost Vanguard

Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932

By: Richard Pare,Jean-Louis Cohen

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The Lost Vanguard

Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932

By: Richard Pare,Jean-Louis Cohen

This book includes seventy-three structures, starting with the Shabolovka Radio Tower in Moscow and concluding with the Lenin Mausoleum. In between are buildings from all over Moscow (where the greatest concentration of modernist buildings still remains), St. Petersburg, Ivanovo, Ekaterinburg, Kiev, Kharkov, Zaporozhe, Nizhi Novgorod, Sochi, and Baku. The buildings range from grand projects such as Gasprom in Kharkov to a modest bus shelter in Sochi, a rare survivor by an unknown architect." "In an essay, architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen surveys the history of the period, providing a context for the emergence of this startling new architecture in parallel to contemporary experiments in Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

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347

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1580931855

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9781580931854

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

The Lyricism of Architecture in the Machine Age

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

The Lyricism of Architecture in the Machine Age

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

Le Corbusier came of age at the time when cars and planes were becoming a common means of transportation, thus he was one of the first professional architects to ply his trade on several continents at once. This book brings together his finest work.

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104

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Taschen

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3822835358

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9783822835357

Above Paris

The Aerial Survey of Roger Henrard

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

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Above Paris

The Aerial Survey of Roger Henrard

By: Jean-Louis Cohen

Above Paris is Henrardbs remarkable study of the urban landscape of Paris and its best-known monuments. Over 350 beautifully printed duotones, systematically grouped by themes such as the course of the Seine, the main roads, the stations, and the neighborhoods of Paris give a clear overview of the citybs layout. Maps at the beginning of each chapter further help orient the reader and together with detailed captions and essays by Jean-Louis Cohen make Above Paris a must for anybody.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568986130

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9781568986135

Book's by Jean-Louis Cohen

Building a new New World

Building a new New World

Documents : English translation

Documents : English translation

Urban Textures | Yves Lion

Urban Textures | Yves Lion

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The Future of Architecture Since 1889

The Future of Architecture Since 1889

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Atelier Kempe Thill

Atelier Kempe Thill

Liquid Stone

Liquid Stone

The Lost Vanguard

The Lost Vanguard

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

Above Paris

Above Paris

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