ABC/229 - Modern architecture

ABC/229

Modern architecture

1 volume

A volume concentrated on the study of Modern Architecture. It covers subjects such as: Why a New Movement; History; What is Modern Architecture?; The Early Developments of Modern Architecture; Modern Building; Elements; Questions of Taste; Conclusion, with a few Comments on England. The text is accompanied by numerous illustrations (drawings and photographs) of Industrial Buildings, Offices, Shops, Restaurants, Flats, Suburbs, Houses, Schools, Health Centres, Halls, Theatres, Stadiums, Religious Buildings. Buildings included: The Glass Tower, Brunn Exhibition 1928; Hangars for dirigible airships at Orly; Electrical Power Station at Hans Hall, near Birmingham; Silos at the Ellesmere Port; Cabinet Factory of The Gramophone Co., Ltd., at Hayes, Middlesex; Grain Elevators, Montreal, Canda; Grain Elevators, Buffalo, New York; Ford Motor company's works at Detroit, Michigan; Consolidated Press Company, Hastings, Michigan; Hall at Reims; Warehouse at Tilsit; Clothing Workshop in Paris; Factory at Berlin-Friedrichshagen; Refuse-converter at Cologne; Garage for 1000 cars in Paris; Garkau Farm, near Lubeck; Sachen Mining Company, Hamm; Eastern Gas Works, Frankfurt-am-Main; Workshops of the Municipal Electricity Works at Frankfurt-am-Main; Electricity Works in Russia; Signal Box at Yselmonde, Holland; Wolchowstroij Electricity Works, Russia; Water-Tower at Breda, Hollnad; Textile institute, Moscow; Messrs. van Nelle's shop at Leiden, and Tobacco Factory at Rotterdam, Holland; Offices of Railway Goods Station at Rotterdam; Boiler-house of "The Mogess" at Moscow; Machinery Hall, Paris Exhibition 1889; Pont Transbordeur, Marseille; Eiffel Tower in Paris; House in Cheyne Walk, London; The Town Hall, Copenhagen; "The White Bedroom", The Hous' Hill, Nitshill, Scotland; The Garrison Church at Ulm; Glasgow School of Art; The Bon Marche, Paris; Messrs. Wertheim's premises, Leipziger-Strasse, Berlin; Project for the Quartier des Etats Unis, Lyons; Design for new Buildings of the University Library, Vienna; Flats in the Neustifgasse, Vienna; Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna; Steinhof Lunatic Asylum, near Vienna; Sanatorium at Purkersdorf, near Vienna; The Suburb of Heuberg, near Vienna; Dr. Scheu's House, Vienna; Mathildenhohe, Darmstadt; Design for the "Palais du Centrosogus", Moscow; Theatre for the Exhibition of Applied Arts, Cologne; Exhibition Buildings, Cologne; "The Glass house", Cologne; Fagus Shoe-lace Factory, Altfeld; Factory Buildings of the A.E.G. Berlin; Race-course Grand-stand, Mariendorf, near Berlin; Water Tower at Posen; Sulphur Factory at Lauban; Exhibition Building of the Steelworks Federation, Leipzig; Exhibition Pavilion; Shops and Offices at Breslau; Design for a Water-mill, Breslau; Building and Offices in Budapest; Apartment House in the Rue Franklin, Paris; Hospital at Grange-Blanche, Lyons; Slaughter-house at Lyons; Monadnock Block, Chicago; Prudential Building, Buffalo; Premises of Carson, Pirie; "La Miniatura", House of Mrs. George Madison Millard, Pasadena, California; Larkin Soap Works, Buffalo, New York; The Exchange, Amsterdam; Work people's canteen at the great Dnjeprostoj Dam Building, Russia; Maison Nicolas wine shop, Paris; Restaurant Chiquito in Paris; Factory Buildings at Kharkoff, Ukraine, Russia; New Palace of the Prague International Fair; Model of the "Centrosogus", Moscow; Design for Messrs. Adam's shop in Leipziger Strasse, Berlin; Design for shops at Stuttgard; The Graybar Building, New York; "Buchdruckerhaus", Berlin; Offices of the "Allgemeines Deutsches Gewerkschaftsbund"; Office buildings at Antwerp; Office of the newspaper "Investia", Moscow; Messrs. C. A. Herpich Soehne's Shop, Berlin; Messrs. Ferra's premises in Prague; Reconstruction of Messrs. Deukon's premises in Berlin; Shops in Berlin; Staircase in Messrs. Schocken's Shop at Stuttgard; Works Office, Dessau; DEsigns for the Alexanderplatz, Berlin; Messrs. Zaudy-Wesel's Shop; Offices at Magdenburg; The French Building, New York; Fruit Shop in Paris; Block of Flats in Amstersdam; Flats of workmen, "Tusschedijken", Rotterdam; Warehouse of R. Miller & Co. at Seon, Switzerland; Project for the Lenin Public Library, Moscow; Concrete Buildings in Moscow; Flats at 14, rue Guynemer, Paris; Flats of the Bauges, Berlin-Ost in Ossastrasse; Flats in Hamburg; Flats of the "Buchdruckerhaus", Berlin; Flats of the "Gehag", Berlin-Britz; Flats in Prague; Flats in Pasettistrasse, Vienna; Flats of the "Bauhutte" at Magdeburg; "Baugesellschaft" Flats, Berlin-Neukoln; Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments, New York; Flats of the "Baugeselleschaft Berlin-Ost" at Lichtenburg, Berlin; Block of Flats for the United Women's Homes Association, Ltd., in Ducane Road, Wood Lane, London ; Flats in Afrikanische Strasse, Berlin; Flats of the "Gehag" at Tegel, near Berlin; Flats of the "Gehag" in Grellstrasse, Berlin; Group of Dwellings in Bruchfeldstrasse, Frankfurt-am-Main; Construction with concrete slabs, "May System!, Frankfurt-am-Main; Project for flats, shops and offices at Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin; Flats of the "gehag" in Buschallee, Berlin-Weissensee; Flats in the Schillerpark, Berlin; Group of Flats at Celle; "La Cite Moderne", Brussells; Aerial view of Wilhelmstadt, Magdeburg; Aerial view of the "Gehag", with two new blocks; Blocks of flats in Altona; Standardised Houses in poured concrete, Stuttgard Exhibition 1927; Workmen's houses at The Hook of Holland; Suburb at Romerstadt, Frankfurt-am Main; Suburb of the "Gehag" at Berlin-Zehlendorf; Suburb at Praunheim, Frankfurt-am-Main; Aerial view of suburb at Praunheim; Aerial view of suburb at Romerstadt, Frankfurt-am-Main; Aerial view of the "Gehag" suburb, Berlin-Britz; Cafe at the "gehag" suburb, Berlin-Zehlendorf; View of the Stuttgard Exhibition 1927; Design for the League of Nations Building at Geneva; Houses in the Rue Mallet-Stevens, Paris; Country House at Guben; Transportable Wooden House, Breslau; Herr Berthold's house at Leipzig; House at Stuttgard-Weissenhof; Standard Steel House, Vienna; "Hollyhock House", Hollywood, California; Club House at Beauvallon; House of Dr. Thozer Rozat at Louveciennes; The Architect's House at Frankfurt-am-Main - Ernest May; The Architect's House at Dahlewitz - Bruno Taut, Berlin; Residence of E. How, Los Angeles; Country House at Hamburg; Herr Michaelsen's Country House at Falkenstein; Houses at Stuttgart Exhibition 1927; Houses of Madame Bertrand and Monsieur Huggler at the Cite Seurat, Paris; House at Silver End, Essex; House of Mr. Bassett Lowke, Northampton; Garden of Monsieur le Vicomte de Noailles at Hyeres; Houses at Boulergue-Saone; Houses of Monsieur E. B. at Versailles; House of Monsieur Jean Lurcat, Cite Seurat, Paris; Villa of Monsieur J. Heim at Neuilly; House of Monsieur Michel at Versailles; Villa at Garches; House in Utrecht; Garage, with chauffeur's quarters above, Utrecht; An Artist's Studio in Antwerp; House at Kinderdijk, the Hague; Aerial view of an American Stadium; General View of the School buildings of the A.D.G.B at Berlin-Bernau; Municipal Schools at Berlin-Neukolln; Kindergarten Building, Brno, Czecho-Slovakia; School at Celle; House for Students at Dessau; Elementary School at Brno; Children's Home at Pernitz; Boys' Home, Frankfurt-am-Main; Technical School at Groningen; Salvation Army Shelter in Paris; Project for a Bathing Pavilion at Rangsdorf; Sanatorium at Hilversum, Holland; Presbyterian Medical Center, New York; Design for a Sanatorium at Mazesta, Russia; Hospital at Waiblingen, Wurttemburg; Hall for Fairs at Breslau; Horticultural Hall, London; Hall at Magdeburg for Agricultural Exhibitions and Sport; "Jahrhundert-Halle", Breslau; Exhibition Hall of the "Allg. Dtsch. Gewerkschaftsbund" (German Manufacturers Association), Dusseldorf; Town Hall, Magdeburg; Project for an Exhibition Building, Karlsplatz, Vienna; Project for a Clubhouse at Savino and at Barcow, Russia; Nuremberg Stadium; Hall for Fairs at Breslau; Theatre of the 1925 Exhibition, Paris; The German Pavilion at Barcelona Exhibition 1929; Theatre Saint-Georges, Paris; Church of St. Antonius at Bale, Zurich; Church of Notre Dame de Raincy, Paris; Steel Church, Presse, Cologne; Church of Ste. Therese de l'Enfant Jesus at Montmagny; Theosophical Society's Building, Amsterdam; Brompton Square, London; Group of Houses near Kew Bridge, Richmond; Block of flats at Ducane Road, Hammersmith, London; Orchard Row, Southampton; Upper Bedford Place, London.

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