[ebooks] OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art by Mitch Putnam at Arts-Photography

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The phase of American architectural history we call mid-century modernism; 1940-1980; saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism; social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples; arcades; domes; and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion Shrine examines this crossroads of modernism and the archetypal; and critiques its buildings and theory. The book centers on one particularly important and omnipresent type; the pavilion - a type which was the basis of major work by Louis I. Kahn; Paul Rudolph; Philip Johnson; Minoru Yamasaki; and other eminent architects. While focusing primarily on the architecture culture of the United States; it also includes the work of British; European Team X; and Scandinavian designers and writers. Making connections between formal analysis; historical context; and theory; the book continues lines of inquiry which have been pursued by Neil Levine and Anthony Vidler on representation; and by Sarah Goldhagen and Alice Friedman on modernismrsquo;s forbidden elements of the honorific and the visually pleasurable. It highlights the significance of pavilionizing mid-century designers such as Victor Lundy; John Johansen; Eero Saarinen; and Edward Durell Stone; and shows how frequently essentialist and traditionalist types appeared in the roadside vernacular of drive-in restaurants; gas stations; furniture and car showrooms; branch banks; and motels. The book ties together the threads in mid-century architectural theory that addressed aspects of type; essential structure; and primal humanistic aspects of environment-making and discusses how these concerns outlived the mid-century moment; and in the designs and writings of Aldo Rossi and others they paved the way for Post-Modernism.