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November 1975
5 1/4 x 8, 192 pp.
$21.95/£16.95 (PAPER)
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0-262-53030-9
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978-0-262-53030-9

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Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
Edited by Ulrich Conrads

Foreword11
1903 - Henry van de Velde: Programme13
1906 - Hans Poelzig: Fermentation in architecture14
1907 - Henry van de Velde: Credo18
1908 - Adolf Loos: Ornamentation and crime19
1910 - Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture25
1911 - Hermann Muthesius: Aims of the Werkbund26
1914 - Muthesius / Van de Velde: Werkbund theses and antitheses28
1914 - Paul Scheerbart: Glass architecture32
1914 - Antonio Sant'Elia / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: Futurist architecture34
1918 - 'De Stijl': Manifesto I39
1918 - Bruno Taut: A programme for architecture41
1919 - 'Work Council for Art': Under the wing of a great architecture44
1919 - Gropius / Taut / Behne: New ideas on architecture46
1919 - Walter Gropius: Programme of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar49
1919 - Erich Mendelsohn: The problem of a new architecture54
1920 - Naum Gabo / Antoine Pevsner: Basic principles of Constructivism56
1920 - Bruno Taut: Down with seriousism!1920
1920 - Le Corbusier: Towards a new architecture: guiding principles59
1921 - Bruno Taut: Frühlicht (Daybreak)63
1922 - 'De Stijl': Creative Demands64
1923 - 'De Stijl': Manifesto V66
1923 - Van Doesberg and van Eesteren: Towards collective building (Commentary on Manifesto V)67
1923 - Oskar Schlemmer: Manifesto for the first Bauhaus exhibition69
1923 - Werner Graeff: The new engineer is coming71
1923 - Erich Mendelsohn: Dynamics and function72
1923 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Working theses74
1923 - Arthur Korn: Analytical and Utopian architecture76
1924 - Theo van Doesburg: Towards a plastic architecture78
1924 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Industrialized building81
1924 - Hemann Finsterlin: Casa Nova83
1924 - Kasimir Malevich: Suprematist manifesto Unovis87
1925 - Le Corbusier: Guiding principles of town planning89
1926 - Walter Gropius: Principles of Bauhaus production [Dessau]95
1926 - Frederick Kiesler: Space City architecture98
1926 - Le Corbusier / Pierre Jeanneret: Five points towards a new architecture99
1927 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: On form in architecture102
1927 - Hugo Häring: Formulations towards a reorientation in the applied arts103
1928 - Erich Mendelsohn / Bernhard Hoetger: Synthesis - World Architecture106
1928 - CIAM: La Sarraz Declaration109
1928 - ABC demands dictatorship of the machine115
1928 - Hannes Meyer: Building117
1929 - El Lissitzky: Ideological superstructure121
1930 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The new era123
1931 - Frank Lloyd Wright: Young Architecture124
1932 - Hugo Häring: The house as an organic structure126
1932 - R. Buckminster Fuller: Universal architecture128
1933 - CIAM: Charter of Athens: tenets137
1943 - Walter Gropius / Martin Wagner: A programme for city reconstruction146
1947 - A post-war appeal: fundamental demands148
1947 - Frederick Kiesler: Magical Architecture150
1949 - Henry van de Velde: Forms152
1950 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Technology and Architecture154
1954 - Jacques Fillon: New games!155
1957 - Konrad Wachsmann: Seven theses156
1958 - Hundertwasser: Mould Manifesto against rationalism in architecture157
1958 - Constant / Debord: Situationist definitions161
1960 - William Katavolos: Organics163
1960 - Reinhard Gieselman / Oswald Mathias Ungers: Towards a new architecture165
1960 - GEAM: Programme for a mobile architecture167
1960 - Louis I. Kahn: Order is169
1960 - Werner Ruhnau / Yves Klein: Project for an aerial architecture171
1960 - 'Situationists': International Manifesto172
1960 - Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz: The Space City175
1960 - Constant: New Babylon177
1961 - R. Buckminster Fuller: The architect as world planner179
1962 - Walter Pichler / Hans Hollien: Absolute architecture181
1962 - Yona Friedman: The ten principles of space town planning183
1963 - We demand185
Sources187
Index191
 
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