The International StyleInitially produced as the catalog to accompany a controversial and groundbreaking 1932 Museum of Modern Art show of the then new architecture emerging in Europe and America, The International Style quickly became the definitive statement of the principles underlying the work of such giants as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and other pioneers. It might be said that Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson discovered as well as defined "the International Style," and over the decades their book has served as both a flashpoint for criticism and a frame for growth in the architectural profession. It has never been out of print in over sixty years. This new edition has been completely redesigned and reset, and it features a new foreword by Philip Johnson, who reflects on the legacy of the International Style and examines the still-precarious power of architecture in our public life. |
Contents
Foreword to the 1995 Edition by Philip Johnson | 13 |
Foreword to the 1966 Edition by HenryRussell Hitchcock | 19 |
Preface by Alfred H Barr Jr | 27 |
The Idea of Style | 33 |
Functionalism 50 | 50 |
Surfacing Material | 64 |
A Second Principle Concerning Regularity | 69 |
A Third Principle The Avoidance of Applied Decoration VIII Architecture and Building IX Plans X The Siedlung Illustrations Appendix 69 | 81 |
888 | 90 |
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achieve aesthetic æsthetic discipline æsthetic principles American applied ornament architects BALCONY Barcelona pavilion Bauhaus BEDROOM brick Brno building character chitects chitecture color composition contemporary architecture contemporary style continuous contrast Corbusier & Pierre Corbusier's critics CURVED decoration effect elements enclosed Europe European functionalists Exposition expression façades factory fenestration Frank Lloyd Wright function Germany glass Gothic Greek GROUND FLOOR half-modern Henry-Russell Hitchcock horizontal idea of style innovations interior International Style KUCHE Le Corbusier Le Pradet LIVING ROOM masonry materials merely metal Mies modern architecture nineteenth century Otto Haesler Pages painting past pavilion Perret Philip Johnson Pierre Jeanneret plane Poissy-Sur-Seine possible Pradet principle of regularity principle of surface problems projects Revival Rohe roofs SCHLAFR screen wall SECOND FLOOR sections sheathing Siedlung skyscrapers solid sort structure stucco supports surface of volume symmetry technical TERRACE tion traditional Tugendhat House ture vertical wall surface Walter Gropius WINDOW FRAMES WOHN WOHNRAUM ZIMMER