Architecture and urbanism in LITERATURE Reading list Library Academy of Architecture Fourth extended edition, Amsterdam june 2022
Beam, Alex Broken glass : Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the fight over a modernist masterpiece / Alex Beam. - New York : Random House, 2020. - 337 p. : ill.. -9780399592713 Plaatscode: 800 Bea b In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked architect Mies van der Rohe to design a weekend home for her. The two began spending weekends together, talking philosophy, Catholic mysticism, and, of course, architecture over wine-soaked picnic lunches. Their collaboration would produce the Farnsworth House, a building made up almost entirely of glass and steel. But the building was plagued by cost overruns and a chilling of the friends' affection. The ensuing lengthy trial about incompetence and allegations of psychological cruelty and emotional trauma. A commercial dispute litigated in a rural Illinois courthouse became a trial of modernist art and architecture itself. Beal, Justin Sandfuture / Justin Beal. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT ; London : [s.n.], 2021. - 269 p. : ill.. -9780262543095 Plaatscode: 800 Bea s Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built.
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