Modern Architecture Since 1900
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  • It's provoking. It's breath taking. It's excellent !!!
  • A good introduction for Modernity
  • pretty survey
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 Modern Architecture Since 1900
William Curtis
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4 out of 5 stars word to your mother.......2007-07-14

I am an architecture major and an architecture history minor. I love both fields, and I made 100 in the class that used this book. Take this review legitimately.

I can go on to the academic approach to this review and tell you how this book is the best thing ever since the invention of electricity, but I won't.

I am telling you this from a student's point of view, and I had to drag myself through a large majority of this book's chapters.

As fairly wide-reaching as this book is with a wealth of information, this is one of the most boring reads I ever encountered, up there with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Quite frankly, I would rather drop everything right now and fly to London to drink some Earl Grey tea and choke on some exceptionally dry scones while chatting to a man in the Days of Yore curly wig and a white face of arsenic than ever have to read this book again.

The only reason I would ever purchase this book (besides class) is to use it as reference.

It is not a fun leisure read and it is drier than a martini with dust on it.

You've been warned.



5 out of 5 stars It's provoking. It's breath taking. It's excellent !!!.......2007-06-17

Some books come cheap but leaves priceless impression.
To me, this book was exactly like that.

I purchased the book in a used bookstore several years ago.
Seeing the credential of author, relative to the price of
book, I did not bother to buy it for my bookshelf decoration.

Being a father of a three year old baby and full time employee,
it was not easy to pick up the 700-paged book.
My attention span is short and nowadays I can only
read journalistically stimulating magazines. This blockbuster
on modernism borke the chains of my shallow reading.

I recently visited Chicago and that trip made me to read this book.
This book is, like all other history books, divided into sections
of chronological and geographical upheavals. I was hooked up by Chicago
section.

The episode on Chicago triggered me to read this book.
Mr. Curtis's writings alerts the reader intellectually in a
plain English.

I enjoyed every page I read, but particularly, I enjoyed reading, the
turn-of-the-century fervors of Chicago and New York, Gropius' and
Breuer's influence on the first American diciples of Modernism, West
regionalist's claims against credos of Modernism, postwar Britain's
rebuilding energy, Scandinavian architects' quest for details,
and of course, the "three-tenors" (Mies/Corb/Wright) of Modernism.

The book is awesome in many different ways:

It's solid in its scholarship.
It's brutal in its breadth of questions.
It's proportional in its scope of perspectives.
It's dynamic in its organization.
It's diverse in its selection of samples.
It's vicereal in its analysis of space.
It's timeless in its themes.

But above all, it's enchanting in its readig.

5 out of 5 stars A good introduction for Modernity.......2007-04-10

Excellente Review of the History of Modern Architecture. Brief analisys on every condition that certainly had an influence in modernity.

3 out of 5 stars pretty survey.......2006-06-29

This is the kind of book I found stimulating before I went to architecture school. Curtis seems to argue that composition, tectonics, personal triumph, modernist orthodoxy and mythos are the big ingredients of 20th Century architecture. As if you can't make junky architecture from that recipe, and the damage from those ideas isn't all around us. Any "Uncomplicated" reading (to me) is non-compelling, but I guess that's what surveys are. I'll be damned if I can tell you what Curtis' overall thrust or polemic is, beyond "Modern Architecture is neat." Social responsibility and political meaning are pretty much missing here. No matter how much I read it, nothing sticks. The design is nice, which is what I suspect people are reviewing here.

5 out of 5 stars Modern Architecture.......2006-03-25

Much like all the other architecture books I own, Modern Architecture Since 1900 is a great reference for basic knowledge on the history of Architecture. Some sections I enjoyed were Louis Kahn, Frank L. Wright and Mario Botta. The book overall is wonderful adn appealing; it is a good read.
Modern Garden Design: Innovation Since 1900
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  • An essential key to unlocking trends and influences on garden paths
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From Europe to South America, from Japan to the United States, this extraordinarily varied survey covers the work of garden and landscape designers whose names are familiar to both lovers and scholars of the modern garden, including Robinson, Jekyll, Jensen, Farrand, Sessions, Mawson, Church, Sørensen, and Jellicoe. It traces the revolutionary change brought about in the postwar period by the Harvard Rebels—Eckbo, Rose, and Kiley—and examines the impact of Noguchi, Burle Marx, and Barragán, among others, as well as the powerful international influence of Scandinavian landscape architects and designers. The garden city is also given attention, from its beginnings in late Victorian Britain, through the Greenbelt towns in the American Midwest, to the contemporary regeneration of urban centers worldwide.

A long line of artists and architects of international renown have earned a place in the history of the modern garden, including Monet, Le Corbusier, Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Gaudí. Land artists such as Michael Heizer, Kathryn Gustafson, Andy Goldsworthy, and Ian Hamilton Finlay have brought new ways of thinking about landscape and the garden into the twenty-first century. This compelling account of the modern garden sets the best-known names in their historical and international context, and assesses the latest and boldest responses to the landscape that surrounds us. It will delight and inform everyone with an interest in gardens and modern culture. 213 illustrations, 121 in color.

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5 out of 5 stars An essential key to unlocking trends and influences on garden paths.......2005-08-06


The elements of modern garden design technique actually begins in the Victorian era and continues to modern times around the world: Janet Waymark's collection reflects world trends and changes as it follows innovations post-1900, juxtaposing different approaches to landscape design. Changing theories, practices, and even urban design values are contrasted in chapters packed with color photo examples and history. College-level students with more than a casual interest in landscaping will find Modern Garden Design: Innovation Since 1900 an essential key to unlocking trends and influences on garden paths.
St. James Modern Masterpieces: The Best of Art, Architecture, Photography and Design Since 1945 (St. James Reference Guides)
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    Architecture Theory since 1968
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    In the discussion of architecture, there is a prevailing sentiment that, since 1968, cultural production in its traditional sense can no longer be understood to rise spontaneously, as a matter of social course, but must now be constructed through ever more self-conscious theoretical procedures. The development of interpretive modes of various stripes--post-structuralist, Marxian, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, as well as others dissenting or eccentric--has given scholars a range of tools for rethinking architecture in relation to other fields and for reasserting architectures general importance in intellectual discourse.

    This anthology presents forty-seven of the primary texts of architecture theory, introducing each with an explication of the concepts and categories necessary for its understanding and evaluation. It also presents twelve documents of projects or events that had major theoretical repercussions for the period. Several of the essays appear here in English for the first time.

    Contributors: Diana Agrest, Stanford Anderson, Archizoom, George Baird, Jennifer Bloomer, Massimo Cacciari, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Alan Colquhoun, Maurice Culot, Jacques Derrida, Ignasi de Solá-Morales, Peter Eisenman, Robin Evans, Michel Foucault, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Frank Gehry, Jürgen Habermas, John Hejduk, Denis Hollier, Bernard Huet, Catherine Ingraham, Fredric Jameson, Charles A. Jencks, Jeffrey Kipnis, Fred Koetter, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Sanford Kwinter, Henri Lefebvre, Daniel Libeskind, Mary McLeod, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, José Quetglas, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Massimo Scolari, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Segrest, Jorge Silvetti, Robert Somol, Martin Steinmann, Robert A. M. Stern, James Stirling, Manfredo Tafuri, Georges Teyssot, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Paul Virilio, Mark Wigley.

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    4 out of 5 stars Great for learning more in depth about architecture theory.......2006-11-10

    A bit of a tough read though.

    3 out of 5 stars Woa!.......2004-06-26

    I'm a graduate student in architecture, and for a theory course we read selections from this book, and two other similar theory anthologies, Kate Nesbitt's "Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture," and Niel Leach's "Rethinking Architecture." All books attempt to do roughly the same thing, and I have to say the Hays (this one) was the one I got the least out of.

    I'll start with one minor criticism, which wouldn't condemn the book, but is extremely infuriating: the page numbers are printed on the inside upper corners of the pages near the spine, not the outside upper corners as is standard practice in books. This makes it difficult to flip through and find what you're looking for, and is just sort of a mind-bogglingly idiotic thing to do. Compounding the problem, many pages are simply not numbered!

    That little complaint aside, I guess Hays does do a pretty good job with his selection of essays. If anything it illustrates how much the discourse has obfuscated itself over the last 30+ years. To give you the the flavor of the book, here are a few selections:

    "The concept of architecture is itself an inhabited constructum, a heritage wich comprehends us even before we could submit it to thought. Certain invariables remain, constant, through all the mutations of architecture. Impassable, imperturbable, an axiomatic traverses the whole history of architecture. An axiomatic, that is to say, an organized ensemble of fundamental and always presupposed evaluations. This hierarchy has fixed itself in stone; henceforth, it informs the entirety of social space."
    (Jacques Derrida)

    "The combination of the system theory of the urban realm with its dynamic interpretation as a pressurized field gives rise to an assembly language based on impregnation, with system elements existing simultaneously, and at least virutally, everywhere, emerging to actualization only within nodes (conjunctions) of mutually interfering systems."
    (Stanford Kwinter)

    "This suggests the idea of architecture as "writing" as opposed to architecture as image. What is being "written" is not the object itself - its mass and volume - but the act of massing. This idea gives a metaphoric body to the act of architecture. It then signals its reading through an other system of signs, called traces. Traces are not the be read literally, since the have no other value than to signal the idea that three is a reading event and that reading should take place; trace signals the idea to read. Thus a trace is a partial or fragmentary signal; it has no objecthood."
    (Peter Eisenman)

    They are not all quite like that of course, but most will not find this 'easy' reading. Learning to read english like this is a skill that takes some time to develop. Hays's little blurbs preceding each writer are decent enough, grounding you a little before you take on the selection, but they are not spectacular.

    I simply cannot recommend this book to anyone other than students forced to read it or those with a highly devoted interest in contemporary architectural theory. Anybody else will find it useless. (The Nesbitt and Leach were somewhat better)

    5 out of 5 stars Greatest Hits.......2002-12-01

    This is a great book for students and professionals alike. As a collogue once said, "A Hayes book is like buying a greatest hits CD, all the good things are there". Hayes compilation saves time by retrieving the most influential articles since 1968 and places them in one place, most with a preface to the article. Must have for any student. Pages are also east to underline and annotate in the margins.

    5 out of 5 stars No House of Cards.......2002-06-05

    I praise Michael Hayes for his succinct and accurate notation and massive inter-article references. This text is the bible of a discipline that ostensibly began in the twentieth century, as self-conscious writing began to absorb architecture as a theme or subject.

    Each successive wave of theorization about architecture contains similar elements of concern and patterns of approach, each multivalent through time or the pen of the author. Hayes gathers the contentious groups and individuals who have jumped into the fray of Architectural Theory and presents them neatly, their most salient essays all within one binding.

    5 out of 5 stars All texts of postmodernism in one book.......2000-04-25

    This book, which is very beautifully printed, shows us all the relevant texts of the post-modern architecture debate. Although this debate is very difficult to understand, all the texts are introduced by a very clear text. References and literature is everywhere and exhaustive.
    Modern Architecture Since 1900
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      		Modern Architecture Since 1900
      William J.R. Curtis
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      Movements in Art Since 1945 (World of Art)
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        Edward Lucie-Smith
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        This classic account of the history of the visual arts from the end of World War II to the new millennium has now been completely rewritten, revised, expanded, and updated. The fifth edition reflects the latest developments in a wide-ranging introduction and nine new chapters that deal with the radical transformations that have taken place in contemporary art. Among the topics covered are the increasing dominance of photography, film, and video, and the emergence of a new post-Post-Expressionist group of "Abject" artists whose work stresses feelings of alienation in Western industrial societies, often through the reintroduction of narrative. The emergence of an opposing trend of idealizing classicism, particularly in Italy and Russia, is discussed, and there is increased coverage of the burgeoning practice of art "on the periphery" in Third World countries, where artists have absorbed Western modernism and then created new terms of reference for artistic expression adapted to their own cultures. Numerous additional reproductions illustrate all the recent developments in this completely redesigned edition, and there are a full bibliography and comprehensive chronologies of key events. No other account of the art of the last fifty-five years provides as much up-to-date information about art issues, developments, and players. 100 color and 190 b/w illustrations.
        Netherlands architecture since 1900: With forty photographs and a list of buildings completed since 1945
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          MODERN ARCHITECTURE SINCE 1900
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                            Ashes and Snow, Book 2
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                            5 out of 5 stars Worth Every Cent, AND then Some!.......2007-07-10

                            I think it sad that the previous Reviewers focus their attention on the SIZE of this gem, and not the QUALITY of what is inside this amazing work. Take one look through the photographs, and you will find incredible images of man-animal interaction, which is photographed with incredible skill by Colbert. These little "post-card" books are intended as "reminders" of this incredible Exhibition. If you really want larger images, then purchase the Exhibition Catalogues (either the Santa Monica or New York Exhibitions). These books make PERFECT gifts from a one-of-a-kind Exhibition, that once seen, is never forgotten.

                            1 out of 5 stars Not Worth the Money/Very Disappointing.......2006-03-17

                            I just received shipment of this "book" about 15 minutes ago and I must say, I'm VERY disappointed. I couldn't believe I paid $30.00 plus S&H for it!! This "book", and I use the term lightly, is more of an envelope, containing 15 postcard-sized photos. Looking at it on Colbert's site makes it look like a true (much thicker) book. I actually measured it: it's only a quarter-inch thick! Sure the photos are OK, but I could just as well look at them on Colbert's site.

                            I'm a multi-media artist, and I'm all for supporting my fellow artists, but I would feel guilty putting together a "book" such as this and charging $30.00 for it; apparently, Colbert isn't feeling any guilt.

                            The exotic, handmade paper the photos are enveloped in is nice, and is most likely what you're paying for (perhaps I'll use the paper in my artwork). I'd return it, but it's not worth the shipping and handling, besides I don't want to invest anymore money into it.

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                            2 out of 5 stars Not worth it.......2006-02-27

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                            • Art of Pokemon 3
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