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1	[en] MONUMENT, SYMBOLISM AND THE PLACE OF MONUMENTALITY IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE / [pt] MONUMENTO, SIMBOLIZAÇÃO E O LUGAR DA MONUMENTALIDADE NA ARQUITETURA MODERNA ANTONIO RENATO GUARINO LOPES 27 September 2022 (has links) [pt] A programada negação da história pelo Movimento Moderno tornou problemática a concepção do monumento, um tema fundamental à arquitetura em qualquer época de seu desenvolvimento. Somada a esta rejeição, o pensamento racionalista e a crença na máquina e na técnica como solucionadoras de problemas sociais levaram à minimização da importância da subjetividade e da simbolização como fatores essenciais à criação arquitetônica, especialmente para temas em que se exigia a monumentalidade. São analisados contributos teóricos por parte de agentes culturais na modernidade, em especial os debates ocorridos entre as décadas de 1930 e 1950. Observase, entretanto, que, antes mesmo desses debates, a produção de arquitetos apontava direções para a concepção de monumentos que incorporassem o espírito de seu tempo. Defende-se que as noções de monumento e monumentalidade tiveram, neste processo, que passar por uma reconsideração, adotando valores anteriormente desconhecidos ou pouco considerados, mas caros à modernidade. Desse modo novas noções de monumento e monumentalidade se consolidaram com o próprio desenvolvimento da modernidade, para se chegar hoje a entendimentos que incorporaram conhecimentos e desenvolvimentos realizados em outras áreas ao longo do século XX. / [en] Modern Movement s planned denial of history rendered problematic the creation of monuments, a basic architectural theme throughout its history. Besides, rational thought and belief in technics and machines to resolve social matters guided to diminishment of the importance of subjectivity and symbolism as essential aspects to architectonic creation, particularly when monumentality counted. Theoretical contributions by last century cultural agents are analyzed, especially debates that took place between the 1930 s and the 1950 s. One can notice, otherwise, that even before those debates, some architects works pointed towards the creation of monuments in pace with the spirit of their time. It is maintained in this work that the notions of monument and monumentality had to go through a reconsideration, when, accordingly to new cultural values, previously unknown or little considered aspects were taken. This process led to new notions of monument and monumentality that incorporated XX century developments and knowledge from other areas. [pt] ARQUITETURA MODERNA [pt] SIGFRIED GIEDION [pt] MONUMENTALIDADE [pt] MONUMENTO [pt] SIMBOLIZACAO [en] MODERN ARCHITECTURE [en] SIGFRIED GIEDION [en] MONUMENTALITY [en] MONUMENT [en] SYMBOLISM
2	Sigfried Giedion&#039 / s &quot / space, Time And Architecture&quot / : An Analysis Of Modern Architectural Historiography Ceylanli, Zeynep 01 September 2008 (has links) (PDF) This thesis investigates the key aspects of modern architecture in the first half of the twentieth century by an extensive reading of Sigfried Giedion&rsquo / s book on modern architecture: Space, Time and Architecture &ndash / The Growth of A New Tradition. Giedion&rsquo / s life, his education, his other writings and his relationships with the pioneers of the era are considered as significant influences on the writing of the book. After giving an informative summary of the book, the key themes of the book are analyzed. While analyzing these themes, the opinions of other architectural historians on these themes are also taken into consideration. The reviews on the book are elucidated in order to grasp the first reactions of architectural history circles, and then they were followed by the later impressions. The claim is that Space, Time and Architecture is an influential resource for the understanding of how modern architecture is written about in the first half of the twentieth century. The proof of this influence is both the written sources on the book and its rule in Manfredo Tafuri&rsquo / s formulation of &lsquo / operative criticism&rsquo / . NA History 190-1614
3	Searching for the Grandiose / Searching for the Grandiose Wallhammar, Johan January 2018 (has links) This project is called “Searching for the Grandiose” and consequently dives into this both historical and contemporary field of architecture. With a basis in architectural history, architectural theory and popular culture the project aims to understand and create grandiose architecture. Both built and imaginary, this area of architecture has always inspired and pushed the boundaries for the possibilities of our profession. Furthermore, in the search for the grandiose also follows a possibility of the limitless – both economically, technically and mentally. In trying to design the grandiose, the architect must loosen the chains of reality and strive for the impossible and awesome. Consequently – a vast architectural fantasy is here created on an imaginary site with no restrictions in regards to size, program or economy. architecture architectural theory architectural history grandiose monumental monument architectural fantasy fantasy imaginary capriccio Etienne-Louis Boullée Piranesi Bruno Taut colossal memorial edifice imaginary structure imaginary architecture sigfried giedion large BIGNESS dream scale ornament limitless Architecture Arkitektur
4	George Tsutakawa's fountain sculptures of the 1960s: fluidity and balance in postwar public art. Cuthbert, Nancy Marie 20 August 2012 (has links) Between 1960 and 1992, American artist George Tsutakawa (1910 – 1997) created more than sixty fountain sculptures for publicly accessible sites in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. The vast majority were made by shaping sheet bronze into geometric and organically inspired abstract forms, often arranged around a vertical axis. Though postwar modernist artistic production and the issues it raises have been widely interrogated since the 1970s, and public art has been a major area of study since about 1980, Tsutakawa's fountains present a major intervention in North America's urban fabric that is not well-documented and remains almost completely untheorized. In addition to playing a key role in Seattle's development as an internationally recognized leader in public art, my dissertation argues that these works provide early evidence of a linked concern with nature and spirituality that has come to be understood as characteristic of the Pacific Northwest. Tsutakawa was born in Seattle, but raised and educated primarily in Japan prior to training as an artist at the University of Washington, then teaching in UW's Schools of Art and Architecture. His complicated personal history, which in World War II included being drafted into the U.S. army, while family members were interned and their property confiscated, led art historian Gervais Reed to declare that Tsutakawa was aligned with neither Japan nor America – that he and his art existed somewhere in-between. There is much truth in Reed's statement; however, artistically, such dualistic assessments deny the rich interplay of cultural allusions in Tsutakawa's fountains. Major inspirations included the Cubist sculpture of Alexander Archipenko, Himalayan stone cairns, Japanese heraldic emblems, First Nations carvings, and Bauhaus theory. Focusing on the early commissions, completed during the 1960s, my study examines the artist's debts to intercultural networks of artistic exchange – between North America, Asia, and Europe – operative in the early and mid-twentieth century, and in some cases before. I argue that, with his fountain sculptures, this Japanese American artist sought to integrate and balance such binaries as nature/culture, intuition/reason, and spiritual/material, which have long served to support the construction of East and West as opposed conceptual categories. / Graduate George Tsutakawa American modernism modern design silicon bronze sculpture welded sheet metal sculpture West Coast modernism Pacific Northwest Seattle public art Century 21 Fulton Mall postwar shopping center design Asian American art World War II Japanese internment Nisei Kibei machine aesthetic abstract art spirituality in art Lawrence Halprin environmentalism in art International Style architecture postwar urban planning Ala Moana Center Northgate Shopping Center Zen in America Bauhaus in America Walter Gropius Victor Gruen Mark Tobey Japanese American Henry Moore Sigfried Giedion Lewis Mumford Alexander Archipenko Paul Horiuchi Johsel Namkung Dudley Carter Freeway Park, Seattle Bentall Centre, Vancouver Seattle Public Library secondary Orientalism organicism in art modernist architecture

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