Architectural theory of modernism : relating functions and forms / Ute Poerschke.

By: Poerschke, Ute [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Description: viii, 241 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138642478; 1138642479; 9781138642485; 1138642487Uniform titles: Funktionen und Formen. English Subject(s): Architecture, Modern | Architecture -- Philosophy | Architecture, Modern | Architecture -- Philosophy | Architekturtheorie | Funktionalismus Architektur | Moderne | PostmoderneDDC classification: 720.1 LOC classification: NA500 | .P6413 2016
Contents:
What are architectural functions? : On terms ; The relationship between scientific and architecture understandings of function ; Functions and purposes -- Function and representation : Carlo Lodoli ; Francesco Algarotti ; Francesco Milizia ; Andrea Memmo ; Impact -- Form and function in the structured whole : Gottfried Semper ; Karl Bötticher ; The organic ; Function and style ; Semper's and Bötticher's influence ; Louis Sullivan: "form follows function" ; Frank Lloyd Wright -- Concepts of function in high modernism : Hannes Meyer ; ABC ; Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus ; Adolf Behne, Hugo Häring, and Erich Mendelsohn ; Extra-architectural influences ; Conclusions ; Functionalism -- Functionalism and its criticism : CIAM and the functional city ; Jane Jacobs and Alexander Mitscherlich ; Postmodernism ; Monofunctionalism, naive functionalism, construction industry functionalism -- Functions and forms in architecture of the information society : Space of flows, space of places, global cities ; The architectural discourse of the environmental movements ; Performativity in architecture ; Computer simulations ; Reconsidering architectural functions.
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"First published 2014 as Funktionen und Formen. Architekturtheorie der Moderne by Bielefeld: Transcript."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index.

What are architectural functions? : On terms ; The relationship between scientific and architecture understandings of function ; Functions and purposes -- Function and representation : Carlo Lodoli ; Francesco Algarotti ; Francesco Milizia ; Andrea Memmo ; Impact -- Form and function in the structured whole : Gottfried Semper ; Karl Bötticher ; The organic ; Function and style ; Semper's and Bötticher's influence ; Louis Sullivan: "form follows function" ; Frank Lloyd Wright -- Concepts of function in high modernism : Hannes Meyer ; ABC ; Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus ; Adolf Behne, Hugo Häring, and Erich Mendelsohn ; Extra-architectural influences ; Conclusions ; Functionalism -- Functionalism and its criticism : CIAM and the functional city ; Jane Jacobs and Alexander Mitscherlich ; Postmodernism ; Monofunctionalism, naive functionalism, construction industry functionalism -- Functions and forms in architecture of the information society : Space of flows, space of places, global cities ; The architectural discourse of the environmental movements ; Performativity in architecture ; Computer simulations ; Reconsidering architectural functions.

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