Визнаний огляд життя та творчості відомого італійського майстра модернізму Карло Скарпи від високоповажного автора-архітектора Роберта МакКартера

Творчість Карло Скарпи кинула виклик і продовжує кидати виклик загальноприйнятим уявленням про сучасну архітектуру. Хоча про його творчість було опубліковано кілька книг, жодна з них не зрівнялася з широтою та глибиною цієї класичної монографії Роберта МакКартера, який відомий своїми ретельно дослідженими, емпірично обґрунтованими та без жаргону описами ключових фігур сучасної архітектури. Ця книга є вичерпним дослідженням численних досягнень Скарпи, включаючи такі роботи в Музеї Канова, Музеї Кастельвеккьо та на кладовищі Бріон, серед інших. Вона містить детальні «огляди» вибраних ключових проектів Скарпи, що охоплюють підхід Скарпи до емпіричного дизайну, та представляє ескізи та архітектурні плани разом із повним списком робіт, реалізованих та нереалізованих, включаючи його улюблені інтер'єри та скляні вироби, а також самі будівлі.

Про автора:

Роберт МакКартер — практикуючий архітектор, професор архітектури імені Рут та Нормана Мур у Вашингтонському університеті в Сент-Луїсі з 2007 року. Раніше він викладав в Університеті Флориди, де з 1991 по 2001 рік був директором Школи архітектури, та в Колумбійському університеті, серед інших навчальних закладів. Він писав для численних міжнародних видань, серед його книг: Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture, у співавторстві з Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); та Louis I Kahn (2005), усі видавництво Phaidon Press. Він також опублікував книгу The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (2017); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); та Aldo van Eyck (2015), серед інших книг.

The esteemed monograph on the globally-revered modern master – includes Roosevelt Island, Four Freedoms Park, which was completed after Kahn’s death

The significance of the work of Louis I Kahn, one of the greatest influences on post-WWII world architecture, has skyrocketed in the twenty-first century. Robert McCarter’s bestselling and critically acclaimed monograph explains how Kahn redefined Modern architecture and why his work remains a fundamental source for architects and designers today. Now thoughtfully updated, this comprehensive and extensively illustrated overview features both built and unbuilt projects, including Yale University Art Gallery, Kimbell Art Museum, and the Salk Institute, along with his work in India and Bangladesh, as well as a project realized forty years after Kahn’s death – New York City’s Four Freedoms Park. 

An indispensable reference work on one of the most important figures in 20th-century architecture. McCarter analyzes each of Kahn’s major buildings from the design process, methods and materials of construction to ‘walk-throughs’ of the spaces themselves and the book includes selected writings by Kahn as well as the complete chronology of Kahn’s projects, compiled by William Whitaker, Curator and Collections Manager of the Louis I Kahn Archives. Each project is illustrated with photographs and drawings that convey the spirit of Kahn’s work, as well as the inspirations that led to the design and buildings featured include such architectural icons as Yale Art Gallery, Kimbell Art Museum, and the Salk Institute, along with Kahn’s work in India and Bangladesh. This is an indispensable reference work on one of the most important figures in 20th-century architecture. 

About the Author:

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He taught previously at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991–2001, and Columbia University, among other schools. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); and Louis I Kahn (2005), all by Phaidon Press. He has also published The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (2017); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); and Aldo van Eyck (2015), among other books.

The complete monograph on Marcel Breuer (1902 – 1981), the last of the first generation of Modernist architects.

The most comprehensive book on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), looking in detail at all the houses, furniture, and public buildings he designed In Europe and the United States–from his beginning at the Bauhaus through his collaboration with Walter Gropius, and the establishment of his own practice in the USA.

About the author:

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He previously taught at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 1991–2001, and Columbia University, among other schools. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); Louis I Kahn (2005); On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (2005); Frank Lloyd Wright (1997); Unity Temple (1997); and Fallingwater (1994), all by Phaidon Press. McCarter is based in St Louis, Missouri.

Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the great masters in the history of modern architecture. His career spanned over sixty years, and his unique stylistic invention kept ahead of any passing fashion.

This definitive monograph provides an unparalleled account of Wright’s career. It explores the key themes in Wright’s work, and presents the consistent qualities that underlie all of his designs. The themes of space and the spatial experience of the user are thus examined, together with a discussion of construction and Wright’s search for what he termed the ‘nature of materials'. The relationship between Wright’s architecture and landscape is also investigated.

The book includes an extensive selection of archival drawings and photographs; clear, redrawn plans and detail drawings; beautiful colour photographs; and a complete list of Wright’s buildings and projects compiled by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.

Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States’ most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the Modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

Although renowned for a number of seminal modern works, he came to question many of the precepts of the Modern Movement. In particular, he questioned the ability of the International Style of Modernism to house the social spaces required by the latter half of the century.

In 1947 Kahn was appointed Professor at Yale University. He was to continue teaching throughout his architectural career, influencing a younger generation of architects along the way. His teaching enabled him to further develop his own concepts and to inform his ever-evolving definition of design. He was drawn to investigate monumentality in architecture, creating buildings out of heavy, solid materials and forms and incorporating vivid plays of light, in complete contrast to the lightweight glass and steel structures being created elsewhere by his peers. This monumentality was also imbued with his concern for the ritual of human experience. His career, although extending to just over twenty years, was a rich and varied one, where he continually readdressed the issues of light, mass, structure, monumentality, geometry and materials.

This monograph follows a predominantly chronological order, identifying major themes and examining key works according to these themes. A comprehensive list of projects by Kahn spanning his lifetime and drawn from the Louis I Kahn Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Archives is also included, listing over 231 projects, of which at least c30 were previously unattributed.