Architectural theory of modernism : relating functions and forms
Poerschke, Ute
Architectural theory of modernism : relating functions and forms - New York Routledge 2016 - viii,241,ip.
CONTENTS
1 What are Architectural Functions? 1
On Terms 2
The Relationship between Scientific and Architectural Understandings of Function 4
Functions and Purposes 19
2 Function and Representation 28
Carlo Lodoli 28
Francesco Algarotti 43
Francesco Milizia 48
Andrea Memmo 51
Impact 54
3 Form and Function in the Structured Whole 61
Gottfried Semper 61
Karl Bötticher 69
The Organic 72
Function and Style 78
Semper’s and Bötticher’s Influence 83
Louis Sullivan: “form follows function” 88
Frank Lloyd Wright 93
4 Concepts of Function in High Modernism 104
Hannes Meyer 104
ABC 112
Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus 116
Adolf Behne, Hugo Häring, and Erich Mendelsohn 122
Extra-architectural Influences 128
Conclusions 138
Functionalism 141
5 Functionalism and Its Criticism 151
CIAM and the Functional City 152
Jane Jacobs and Alexander Mitscherlich 163
Postmodernism 166
Monofunctionalism, Naive Functionalism, Construction Industry Functionalism 175
6 Functions and Forms in the Architecture of the Information Society 189
Space of Flows, Space of Places, Global Cities 194
The Architectural Discourse of the Environmental Movements 203
Performativity in Architecture 207
Computer Simulations 213
Reconsidering Architectural Functions 216
Bibliography 222
Image Sources 236
Index 238
9781138642485
720.1 / POE
Architectural theory of modernism : relating functions and forms - New York Routledge 2016 - viii,241,ip.
CONTENTS
1 What are Architectural Functions? 1
On Terms 2
The Relationship between Scientific and Architectural Understandings of Function 4
Functions and Purposes 19
2 Function and Representation 28
Carlo Lodoli 28
Francesco Algarotti 43
Francesco Milizia 48
Andrea Memmo 51
Impact 54
3 Form and Function in the Structured Whole 61
Gottfried Semper 61
Karl Bötticher 69
The Organic 72
Function and Style 78
Semper’s and Bötticher’s Influence 83
Louis Sullivan: “form follows function” 88
Frank Lloyd Wright 93
4 Concepts of Function in High Modernism 104
Hannes Meyer 104
ABC 112
Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus 116
Adolf Behne, Hugo Häring, and Erich Mendelsohn 122
Extra-architectural Influences 128
Conclusions 138
Functionalism 141
5 Functionalism and Its Criticism 151
CIAM and the Functional City 152
Jane Jacobs and Alexander Mitscherlich 163
Postmodernism 166
Monofunctionalism, Naive Functionalism, Construction Industry Functionalism 175
6 Functions and Forms in the Architecture of the Information Society 189
Space of Flows, Space of Places, Global Cities 194
The Architectural Discourse of the Environmental Movements 203
Performativity in Architecture 207
Computer Simulations 213
Reconsidering Architectural Functions 216
Bibliography 222
Image Sources 236
Index 238
9781138642485
720.1 / POE