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‘Flash Gordon’ and American Auto Design in the 1950S

Frank Dudas

Frank Dudas

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The Banham Lectures : Essays on Designing the Future

Berg, 2009

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...Prologue Peter and I first met at ‘Expo ’67’ in Montreal. He was a special guest of ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design) and I was the organizer...

The Climate Control Project: Modernism and Microclimatology, 1947–1952

Daniel A. Barber

Daniel A. Barber is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Penn Design. He is an architectural historian with a research interest in the relationship between the design fields and the emergence of global environmental culture across the twentieth century. He is a leading voice in the field’s increasing interest in environmental concerns on both historical and theoretical terms. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Energy Accounts : Architectural Representations of Energy, Climate, and the Future

Routledge, 2017

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... The Climate Control Project: Modernism and Microclimatology, 1947–1952 Daniel A. Barber In October 1949, the shelter magazine House Beautiful launched the Climate Control Project, a two-and-a-half year long series of articles intended...

Enclosed by Images

Beatriz Colomina

Beatriz Colomina

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The Banham Lectures : Essays on Designing the Future

Berg, 2009

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...I I am very honoured by your invitation to give the Reyner Banham memorial lecture. Honoured and moved, since Banham occupies a very important place in my formation as an architectural...

Shopping towns Europe, 1945–1975

Janina Gosseye

Janina Gosseye is a Senior Assistant at ETH Zürich (Switzerland). Her research focuses on the notion of collectivity in postwar architecture and is situated at the nexus of architectural theory and social and political history. Gosseye’s work has been published in several leading academic journals, including the Journal of Architecture, Journal of Urban History, and Planning Perspectives. She has edited and authored several books, including Shopping Towns Europe (with Tom Avermaete, 2017) and Speaking of Buildings: Oral History Methods in Architecture (with Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat, 2019). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Tom Avermaete

Tom Avermaete is professor of architecture at TU Delft, the Netherlands. He is the author of Another Modern: the Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005), and co-editor of Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future (2010) and Structuralism Reloaded: Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urbanism (2011). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shopping Towns Europe : Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre, 1945–1975

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...The shopping center is one of the few new building types created in our time . … Because shopping centers represent groupings of structures and because of the underlying cooperative spirit involved, the need for environmental planning...

A Pilgrimage to the Alcázar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Franco's Spain

Miriam Basilio

Miriam Basilio

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Architecture and Tourism : Perception, Performance and Place

Berg, 2004

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...Introduction On 18 July 1936 a group of right-wing generals launched a military uprising aiming to topple the democratically elected left-wing coalition government that led the Spanish Republic. This was the beginning of the Spanish Civil...

Archaeologies of Exile on Trikeri Island: Listening to Stones and Speculating on Prison Matters

Elke Krasny

Elke Krasny

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Phoebe Giannisi

Phoebe Giannisi

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Writing Architectures : Ficto-Critical Approaches

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020

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...Trikeri is a small Greek island located in the Pagasitikos Gulf of the Aegean Sea. Looked at from the Google-Earth-God’s-Eye-View, we see the lush green of the trees and the beautiful red of the earth. There is also a scattering...

The Council of Industrial Design: Official Articulations of Street Furniture Design

Eleanor Herring

Eleanor Herring lectures in design history at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, in product design at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in fashion and sustainability at ESMOD, Berlin, Germany. She has published articles in various edited volumes and conference proceedings. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Street Furniture Design : Contesting Modernism in Post-War Britain

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...By the early 1940s, the view that an official machine was necessary to ensure better standards in design was shared by many parties, both in and outside of government. Neither the Design and Industries Association nor the Council for Art...

Russel and Mary Wright: Nostalgic Modern and the “American Way of Life”

Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand

Dr. Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand teaches design history, theory and studio at Syracuse University where she is a Professor in the School of Design. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Mid-Century Modern Interiors : The Ideas that Shaped Interior Design in America

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...There are many Americans who still enjoy or remember eating off a plate from Russel Russell Lynes, “Forward,” in William Hennessey, Russel Wright: American Designer (New York: Gallery Association of New York, 1983). Numerous authors...

Ugly America and Architecture on the Highway: A Time-Life View of the 1950s and 1960s

Gabrielle Esperdy

Gabrielle Esperdy

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Archi.Pop : Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...For more than four decades in the middle of the twentieth century, Life served as a “show-book of the world,” in the words of publisher Henry Luce, who launched the magazine in 1936 as a pictorial compliment to Time, the successful...