Adolf Loos, Dot.City, Cutler Anderson, Clark & Tugendhat

Adolf Loos

Viennese architect Adolf Loos was one of the most important pioneers of the European Modern Movement. Born in 1870, he was an early opponent of the decorative trends of Art Nouveau, believing instead that architecture devoid of ornament represented pure and lucid thought.
His rationalist design theories were put into practice in the Karntner Bar, Vienna (1907), Steiner House, Vienna (1920), and Villa Muller, Prague (1930). Surprisingly, there is no other monograph on Adolf Loos in English currently available.
Adolf Loos joins Adalberto Libera and Albert Kahn in Princeton Architectural Press's historical monographs series and presents this great modernist's complete works through numerous illustrations.
Adolf Loos by Panayotis Tournikiotis
ISBN: 1568983425

Dot.City: Urban Design And New Media

Cell phones, automatic teller machines, and the Internet have incontrovertibly become part of our daily lives, indistinguishable from other components of our habitual everyday activity. Life does not seem to have been fundamentally changed by these hi-tech, information-giving tools of convenience - or has it? Have we, unawares, become accustomed to a new way of living? And how can designers make creative use of these new digital possibilities?
This publication of the Fourth International Bauhaus Kolleg - a year-long thematic graduate session run by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation - offers strategies for employing digital media to integrate the unpredictable and the unplanned into urban existence.
Dot.City asks and answers many questions: Can the use of information and communication technology counteract the continuous processes of devaluation, the loss of urban identity, the lack of multifunctional networks? Can the activation and implementation of new social techniques of knowledge production compensate for missing economical impulses and functions? How do such processes generate new species of urban values? Is it possible to re-program local social resources using intelligent network technologies? What do urban action areas designed for this purpose look like? And how can urban information spheres and physical urban spaces penetrate each other?
Dot.City: Urban Design And New Media in the Bauhaus Kolleg by Torsten Blume
ISBN: 3936314942
Bauhaus and America

Cutler Anderson Architects

Established in 1977, Cutler Anderson Architects (formerly James Cutler Architects) is nationally known for its environmental awareness and attention to detail. Dedicated to design excellence, the firm has received six National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects and over 30 other national and regional awards.
Cutler Anderson Architects is currently involved in many projects both nationally and internationally, including residences in Mallorca, Spain, the Napa Valley, California, the Hudson River Valley in New York, the Big Island of Hawaii, the Capital Hill Library in Seattle, Washington, and commercial and mixed use projects in Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Sheri Olson is an architect, writer, and a Contributing Editor to Architectural Record magazine. Olson has a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and worked for Bernard Tschumi in New York. Sheri Olson received a Federal Design Achievement Award from the National Endowment for the Arts for Modernism at Mid-Century published by the University of Chicago Press and is the author of Miller/Hull: Architects of the Pacific Northwest.
Cutler Anderson Architects by Sheri Olson
ISBN: 1592530168

Clark and Menefee

Architects W.G. Clark and Charles Menefee III, inspired by the "thin shacks and sheds of insubstantial beauty" of the Southern vernacular building tradition, are known for structures that are at once modest, rigorous, and economical in detail. They blend the ease and informality of the architecture of the historic South with the elegance of end-of-the-century modernism. This balance between continuity and change is evident throughout their work.
This monograph of 13 projects-eight built, five unbuilt-reveals the architects ideas and intentions while reflecting the spirit they bring to each design. Projects such as Middleton Inn, Croffead House, Lucy Daniels Foundation, Charleston Bus Stops, and 8 Bedon's Alley are presented through duotone photographs and drawings, which exemplify the simplicity and rigor of the architects' work. The author's critical analysis of each project highlights associations to vernacular buildings and the local historic context.
Richard Jensen is an assistant professor of architecture at Syracuse University.
Clark and Menefee by Richard Jensen
ISBN: 1568982119

Tugendhat House

The Tugendhat House in Brno, the Czech Republic, was planned and built by Mies van der Rohe from 1928 to 1930, and is universally regarded not only as one of his masterpieces, but also as one of the most important buildings of European Modern architecture.
This monograph on the Tugendhat House presents previously unpublished photographs belonging to the Tugendhat family, showing the house as it was when it was first inhabited. A representative collection of plans and drawings from Mies van der Rohe's atelier are also presented here for the first time. Carefully reproduced photographs of the original furniture in the family's possession, many of which have never been shown, are also included.
Essays by Wolf Tegethoff, Franz Schulze, and Ivo Hammer give a detailed analysis of the significance of the Tugendhat House in the context of Mies's oeuvre.
The Tugendhat House by Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat
ISBN: 3211830650

Farnsworth House

In 1945-50 Mies van der Rohe built the weekend house "Farnsworth House" in Plano, Illinois. Situated on the banks of a river, this house is constructed out of steel and glass and captivates with its clear proportions and reduction of the structure to its essence. The surrounding landscape provides a direct context.
Werner Blaser who worked together with Mies van der Rohe, presents a vivid picture of this house, enlivened by his personal knowledge. Together with comments on the architecture and technology, the book is complemented by the author`s personal experiences of working with Mies van der Rohe and impressions from Peter Palumbo, a former inhabitant of Farnsworth House.
Farnsworth House by Werner Blaser
ISBN: 3764360895