Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter: Collage City (1978–) [EN, DE, ES]
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, bricolage, city, collage, modernism, postmodernism, theory, urban design, urban planning, urbanism, utopia
“A theoretical treatise that sets out various analyses of urban form in a number of existing cities known to be aesthetically successful, examining their actually existing urban structure as found, revealing it to be the end product of a ceaseless process of fragmentation, the collision / superimposition / contamination of many diverse ideas imposed on it by successive generations, each with its own idea.”
A major thesis on urban interaction which first introduced the concept of “bricolage” to urban theory.
Publisher MIT Press, 1978
ISBN 0262180863, 9780262180863
186 pages
Commentary: ANY 7-8, dedicated to Rowe’s work (ed. Robert Somol, 1994), K. Michael Hays (Architecture Theory Since 1968, 1998), Joan Ockman (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1998), Anthony Vidler (Architectural Review, 2011).
Review: Ed Cutler (2010).
Collage City (English, 1978, 99 MB, via)
Collage City (German, trans. Bernhard Hoesli, 1984, 37 MB)
Ciudad collage (Spanish, trans. Esteve Riambau Sauri, 1998, 23 MB, via)
Introduction to French edition (1993)
Herbert Read: Art and Industry: The Principles of Industrial Design (1934)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art theory, design, industrial design, machine, modernism
One of the most important texts promoting Modernism published in Britain. The layout was designed by former Bauhaus tutor Herbert Bayer. “In this text, the designer is portrayed as an abstract artist working in industry, reconciling elements of design such as materials, form, colour, and proportion with modern mass-production technology. Read felt that the designer should play a central role in modern manufacture, rather than the low-paid, subservient role that generally prevailed at the time.”
Publisher Faber and Faber, London, 1934
Reprint Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1935
143 pages
via Joseph Allen
Review: Listowel (Philosophy, 1934).
Commentary: Robin Kinross (Journal of Design History, 1988).
PDF (146 MB, no OCR)
Comment (0)Charles Jencks, Karl Kropf (eds.): Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, architecture, city, history of architecture, manifesto, modernism, postmodernism, theory, urbanism
A survey of 120 texts on architecture from the late 1950s up to the mid-1990s, presented in excerpts organised into five sections.
Publisher Academy Editions, Chichester, UK, 1997
ISBN 0471976873
312 pages
via hindmnj
See also Ulrich Conrads (ed.), Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture, 1964/1970.
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