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Writings on Architecture
The first anthology of McCoy’s influential writings on
midcentury Californian architecture
Previously Announced
Piecing Together Los Angeles:
An Esther McCoy Reader
By Esther McCoy.
eAsT of borneo books
edited and with text by susan Morgan.
esther mcCoy (1904–1989) is one of the twentieth century’s foremost architecture historians, and one of the
greatest chroniclers of the architecture of midcentury southern California. Her 1960 book Five California Architects
has long been acknowledged as an indispensable classic, and as reyner Banham famously observed of her,
“no one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.” Piecing
Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader is the first anthology of mcCoy’s writing. It features a selection
of some 70 pieces—ranging from her 1945 article “Schindler, Space architect” to “arts & architecture: Case
Study Houses,” a 1989 essay commissioned by the museum of Contemporary art, Los angeles. From fiction for
The New Yorker to seminal essays on new architectural forms, mcCoy charts the progressive edge of american
idealism, from the collective utopian spirit of Jazz age greenwich village, through the Depression and the war
years, to the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s. In preparing this volume, writer and editor Susan morgan extensively
researched the mcCoy papers at the archives of american art. Her editorial decisions were based, in part,
on mcCoy’s original selections for an unrealized anthology solicited by W. W. norton in 1968. expanding on that
project, morgan has included essays, articles, lectures, correspondence, memoirs and short stories that illuminate
the breadth and complexity of mcCoy’s writing and the southern California region that inspired her
groundbreaking work.
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Metropolisarchitecture
and Selected Essays
By Ludwig Hilberseimer.
GsAPP books
edited by richard Anderson. Afterword by Pier
vittorio Aureli.
In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer
(1885–1967) redefined architecture’s relationship
to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city,
where leisure, labor and circulation would be vertically
integrated, both frightened his contemporaries
and offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of
the capitalist metropolis. Hilberseimer’s Groszstadtarchitektur
(Metropolisarchitecture) is presented here
for the first time in english translation. two additional
essays frame this international cross-section of
metropolitan architecture: “Der Wille zur architektur”
(the Will to architecture) and “vorschlag zur
City-Bebauung” (proposal for City-Building). the
propositions assembled here encourage us to
reconsider mobility, concentration and the scale of
architectural intervention in our own era of urban
expansion. this is the second title in the GSAPP
Sourcebooks series, devoted to recovering and translating
overlooked texts on architecture and the city.
978-1-883584-75-7
pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 200 pgs / illustrated throughout.
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SIAL: Liberec Association
of Engineers and
Architects, 1958–1990
Czech Architecture Against the Stream
Arbor vITAe
edited by rostislav Švácha, Miroslav Masák,
Pavel zatloukal, Jakub Potůček.
this monograph documents, for the first time, the
work of the Liberec association of engineers and
architects—known as SIaL—founded in 1968 by the
Czech architects Karel Hubaček, miroslav masák and
otakar Binar. Joined by other prominent modernist
architects in prague, the group was active into the
1980s. Despite difficult political circumstances, SIaL
gained recognition both at home and among Western
architects. this book looks at the work of the Liberec
collective in its full scope. the first three chapters,
presenting SIaL’s production from the 60s, 70s and
80s, are followed by an analysis of 25 of their most
important projects and buildings, as well as profiles
of the most prominent SIaL architects, with a
supplement comprising almost 500 reproductions.
978-80-87164-87-7
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ArChITeCTure & desIGn hIGhLIGhTs
Modernism In-Between
The Syncretic Architectures of Socialist
Yugoslavia
By Wolfgang Thaler, Maroje Mrduljaš,
Vladimir Kulić.
JovIs
Socialist Yugoslavia was a country suspended between
cultures, political systems and Cold War blocs,
and as a result, in the early postwar years it produced
a body of modernist architecture that defies easy
classification and which has fascinated architecture
historians since the dismantling of the Soviet bloc.
Modernism In-Between explores the historical “inbetweenness”
of Yugoslavian modernism and the
strategies architects used to mediate different—
sometimes directly opposed—concepts of culture and
architecture. Surveyed here is the work of Ljubljana
architect edvard ravnikar, who seamlessly blended
the influences of otto Wagner, Jože plečnik and
Le Corbusier; proto-postmodern war memorials by
Bogdan Bogdanović; Juraj neidhardt’s efforts to forge
a modern identity for Bosnia; and the exhibition
pavilions of the Zagreb architect vjenceslav richter,
who resurrected the spirit of the russian avant-garde
for Yugoslavian socialism. the book is illustrated
with photos by Wolfgang thaler.
978-3-86859-147-7
Hbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 180 color / 30 b&w.
U.S. $39.80 CDn $39.80
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