Modern Schools: A Century of Design for Education - Rilegato

Hille, R. Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0470575263 ISBN 13: 9780470575260

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2011

Riassunto

Modern Schools: A Century of Design for Education is a comprehensive survey of modern K-12 schools from Frank Lloyd Wright to Morphosis?an in-depth design study that explores the fundamental relationship between architecture, education, and the design of contemporary learning environments. Its focus is on the underlying design themes and characteristic features that support and enhance basic aspects of learning and, in the process, create an architectural expression that is both meaningful and lasting. The breadth of its scope includes influences of contemporary educational ideas and practices, related design concepts and strategies, and most importantly, the resulting impact of both on real environments for learning.

This remarkable survey and project study?the first of its kind?is an essential and important sourcebook for architects, school planners, educators, and anyone else interested in contemporary school design. The body of work presented, which is international in scope, underscores the unique architectural potential of this important project type, and highlights design themes that remain fundamentally relevant for architects and designers today. Presentation material includes more than 900 contemporary and historical photographs, mostly in color, and more than 200 detailed architectural plans drawings of schools by many of the outstanding design architects of the modern era.

Modern Schools: A Century of Design for Education features the work of more than 60 architects worldwide, including twentieth century masters Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, and Eliel and Eero Saarinen, as well as contemporaries such as Morphosis, Coop Himmel(b)lau, Behnisch & Partners, and Patkau Architects, among many others.

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L'autore:

R. Thomas Hille, AIA, is an architect, designer, educator, and researcher based in Seattle, Washington. He has a special interest in school design and the architectural potential of environments for learning. He has designed a number of award-winning schools, including White River High School in Buckley, Washington, winner of CEFPI's 2005 James D. MacConnell Award for Architectural Excellence. He has taught at MIT, the University of Michigan, the Catholic University of Chile, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art. His previous publications include an interactive multimedia study of the relationship between form and meaning in architecture, and a monograph on the houses of West Coast modernist William W. Wurster.

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features the work of more than 60 architects worldwide:

Alvar Aalto

Ahrbom and Zimdahl

Edward Larrabee Barnes

Hermann Baur

Beaudouin and Lods

Behnisch & Partners

Gunnar Birkerts

Bornebusch Brüel Selchau and Larsen

Marcel Breuer

Caudill Rowlett Scott

Denis Clarke-Hall

Coop Himmel(b)lau

Dall and Lindhardtsen

W. M. Dudok

Jan Duiker

Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis

Albert Frey

Irving Gill

Erno Goldfinger

Kaj Gottlob

Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry

Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer

Paul Hedqvist

Herman Hertzberger

Howe and Lescaze

Arne Jacobsen

John Johansen

Ernest J. Kump

Denys Lasdun

Le Corbusier

F. C. Lund and Hans Christian Hansen

André LurÇat

Ernst May

Richard Meier

Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer

Mitchell Giurgola Associates

Morphosis

Richard Neutra

Eliot Noyes

Patkau Architects

Perkins + Will

Polshek Partnership

Antoine Predock

Jean and Henri Prouvé

John Lyon Reid

Alfred Roth

Paul Rudolph

Eliel and Eero Saarinen

Hans Scharoun

Alison and Peter Smithson

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

A. H. Steiner

Hugh Stubbins

Giuseppe Terragni

The Architects Collaborative

Aldo van Eyck

Willem van Tijen, Mart Stam and Lotta Beese

John Carl Warnecke

Harry Weese

Frank Lloyd Wright

Su questa edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470575263
• ISBN 13: 9780470575260
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 525