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Hermann Czech is one of Austria’s most distinguished architects and an internationally renowned theoretician and critic This is the first collection of Czech’s essays in English “Architecture is not life. Architecture is backdrop. Anything else is not architecture.” Hermann Czech, 1971 Very few architects are equally prolific in theory and design—and Hermann Czech is one of those few. Over the course of six decades, he has created a widely recognized body of built work while also developing a unique architectural theory based on his knowledge of philosophy and architectural history. This new book finally makes his influential ideas available to an English-speaking audience. In these essays, written throughout Czech’s career, he analyzes mannerisms and calls attention to underestimated works of architecture. He also delves into his own ambivalent relationship to modernism. Of particular significance are the pieces that focus on Czech’s appeal to embrace reason over style. In addition, he reveals a deep engagement with the works of Hegel, Kant, Wittgenstein, and Adorno as applied to architectural topics. Throughout, Czech showcases his commitment to developing precise terminology to advance architectural dialogues while simultaneously rooting them in the larger history of ideas. Hermann Czech, born 1936, lives and works as an architect and architectural publicist and critic in Vienna. Hermann Czech Essays on Architecture and City Planning Preface by Eve Blau. Translated from German by Elise Feiersinger Paperback approx. 248 pages, 100 color and 50 b/w illustrations 16 × 24 cm (6¼ × 9½ in) 978-3-03860-020-6 English sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 30.00 April 2019 (Europe) | June 2019 (US)
Brings to light again a little-known movement within the physical culture-driven architectural avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s Highlights the mark the concept has left on modern domestic aesthetic as we know it and demonstrates its significance also for contemporary architecture and design Features previously unpublished archival photographs, diagrams, and redrawn plans Sport and stadium, instead of art and museum: a largely forgotten yet still influential design concept of the 1920s and 1930s Modern architecture’s evolution during the interwar period represents one of the most radical turns in Western design history. While the role new materials and modes of production played in this development is beyond dispute, of equal importance was the emergence of a distinctly modern physical culture. Largely unacknowledged today, new conceptions of body and movement had a profound influence on how architects designed not only public spaces like gymnasiums or stadiums, but also domestic spaces. Hannes Meyer, Swiss modernist and director of the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 to 1930, colorfully encapsulated this phenomenon as “the advanced school of collective feeling.” In this new book, the authors explore the impact of physical culture during the 1920s and 1930s on the thinking of some of modern architecture’s most influential figures. Using archival photographs, diagrams, and redrawn plans, they reconstruct an obscure constellation of domestic projects by Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, Richard Neutra, Franco Albini, and others, that demonstrate these architects’ response to, and attempt to dictate, the relationship between the body and the spaces and objects that give it shape. They argue that the impact of sport on modern architecture was a discursive phenomenon, best understood by going beyond a mere typological reading of the stadium or gymnasium, to an examination of how gymnastic equipment and other trappings of physical culture were folded into the domestic space. Nile Greenberg is the founder of NILE, a New York-based design studio. Mathew Kennedy is an architect based in Mexico City. Nile Greenberg, Matthew Kennedy The Advanced School of Collective Feeling Inhabiting Modern Physical Culture, 1926–38 Paperback approx. 176 pages, 140 b/w illustrations 17 × 24 cm (6½ × 9½ in) 978-3-03860-107-4 English sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00 March 2019 (Europe) | May 2019 (US) NEW TITLES 12/13
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