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Visionary drawings of architecture and planning : 20th century through the 1960s : developed for travel and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Title
Visionary drawings of architecture and planning : 20th century through the 1960s : developed for travel and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) / [compiled by] George R. Collins ; The Drawing Center ... New York.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1979.

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Additional Authors
  • Collins, George R. (George Roseborough), 1917-1993
  • Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service.
  • Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)
Description
approximately 150 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
This is the catalog for a 1979 exhibition at New York's Drawing Center developed for travel and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). It presents a wide range of illustrations notable for their style and subject-personal glimpses of theory, speculation, and fantasy of what should or might be the future of our built environment. Collins has written an introduction which defines visionary architecture and which comments on the historical position of those represented in the exhibit. Thirty-eight designers are represented by a brief biography followed by a few annotated examples of the individual's work. The exhibition--a striking example of internationalism--is reduced by the catalog to a hurried look at individuals and their creativity which should, however, encourage readers into further exploration of this field.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Architectural drawing > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Architectural drawing
  • Architekturzeichnung
  • Fantastische Architektur
  • Visionary architecture > Exhibitions
  • Utopias
  • Architecture > Designs and plans
  • Architecture > Dessins et plans > Catalogues d'exposition. > 20e siècle
  • Utopies architecturales > Catalogues d'exposition
  • Disegni architettonici > Sec. 20 > Esposizioni
  • Disegni architettonici > Sec. 20 > Esposizioni > 1979
Genre/Form
  • Catalog
  • Exhibition
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • catalogs (documents)
  • Catalogs
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
  • Catalogues.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword / George R. Collins -- Introduction / George R. Collins -- Abraham, Raimund -- Cook, Peter -- Ferriss, Hugh -- Finsterlin, Hermann -- Friedman, Yona -- Fuller, R. Buckminster -- Gropius, Walter -- Hablik, Wenzel August -- Herron, Ron -- Hollein, Hans -- Izozaki, Arata -- Kahn, Louis I. -- Kiesler, Frederick J. -- Kikutake, Kiyonori -- Kurokawa, Noriaki (Kisho) -- Lamb, Charles R. -- Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret Gris) -- Le Ricolais, G. Robert -- Malcolmson, Reginald -- Mendelsohn, Eric [Erich] -- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig -- Neutra, Richard -- Otto, Frei -- Parent, Claude -- St. Florian, Friedrich -- Sant'Elia, Antonio -- Scharoun, Hans -- Soleri, Paolo -- Stevens, Herbert H., Jr. -- Superstudio [Adolfo Natalini, Christiano Toraldo di Francia, Roberto Magris, Piero Frassinelli and Alessandro Magris) -- Tyng, Anne Griswold -- Wachsmann, Konrad -- Webb, Michael David -- Weidlinger Associates -- Weininger, Andrew -- Williams, Amancio -- Wright, Frank Lloyd -- Wright, Lloyd.
ISBN
  • 0262030705
  • 9780262030700
LCCN
78078218
OCLC
  • ocm05450676
  • 5450676
  • SCSB-26954
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library