Buildings that changed the world by Reichold, Klaus, Graf, Bernhard, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Napoleon and the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile -- The Houses of Parliament -- The old symbol of a new city: Trinity Church -- Newschwanstein Castle and its tragic king -- The royal greenhouses of Laeken -- The Statue of Liberty -- The burgtheater in Vienna -- Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia -- The Berlin Reichstag -- The Eiffel Tower in Paris -- Moscow and its GUM Department Store -- The Djenne Mosque -- The Gellert Spa in Budapest -- The Center for Anthroposophy: Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum -- The quintessence of functionalism: the Bauhaus in Dessau -- The Empire State Building in New York -- The Golden Gate Bridge -- Frank Lloyd Wright and Fallingwater -- The Pilgrimage Church Notre Dame du Haut near Ronchamp -- The Atomium -- The Solomon R. …”


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25 concepts in modern architecture : a guide for visual thinkers by Travis, Stephanie, Anderson, Catherine (Catherine K.)

Table of Contents: “…Manipulating Volumes Bauhaus Master Houses, Walter Gropius 1926 3. Sliding Planes Barcelona Pavilion, Mies Van Der Rohe 1929 4. …”


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Atomic Dwelling : Anxiety, Domesticity, and Postwar Architecture. by Schuldenfrei, Robin

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4 The Allegory of the Socialist Lifestyle: The Czechoslovak Pavilion at the Brussels Expo, its Gold Medal and the PolitburoChapter 5 Assimilating Unease: Moholy-Nagy and the Wartime/Postwar Bauhaus in Chicago; Chapter 6 The Anxieties of Autonomy: Peter Eisenman from Cambridge to House VI; Part 3 Societies of Consumers: Materialist Ideologies and Postwar Goods; Chapter 7 "But a home is not a laboratory": The Anxieties of Designing for the Socialist Home in the German Democratic Republic 1950-1965.…”
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Pictorial cultures and political iconographies : approaches, perspectives, case studies from Europe and America

Table of Contents: “…-- Rubens's Pictorial Peacekeeping Force: Negotiating through 'Visual Speech-Acts -- Political Iconography and the Picture Act: The Execution of Charles I in 1649 -- "The Conqueror of Canada": Benjamin West and the Heroes of Sentimentalism -- Nationalism and Truth in Grant Wood's Parson Weems' Fable -- Masculinity, Sexuality, and the German Nation: The Eulenburg Scandals and Kaiser Wilhelm II in Political Cartoons -- Bauhaus, the Radio, and the Colors of Fascism -- Adolf Hitler's (Self- )Fashioning as a Genius: The Visual Politics of National Socialism's Cult of Genius -- The Grammar of Postrevolutionary Visual Politics: Comparing Presidential Stances of George Washington and Friedrich Ebert -- Making the Invisible Visible: The Public Persona of Malcolm X -- The New Face of American Anger: Internet Imagery and the Power of Contagious Feeling -- Photographing American Indians: An Imaginary Exhibition -- The "Other" Country in the City: Urban Space and the Politics of Visibility in American Social Documentary Photography -- Taming the Teeming Masses: Visualizing Order at Ellis Island -- Replacing the President: Cecil Stoughton's "Lyndon B. …”
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Modernism : an anthology of sources and documents

Table of Contents: “…From Constructivism 1922 / Aleksei Gan -- 'Constructivism and the proletariat' 1922 / László Moholy-Nagy -- Bauhaus. 'Manifesto of the Bauhaus, April 1919' / Walter Gropius -- From 'Economic living' 1924 / Annelise Fleischmann -- 'The new typography; 1923 / László Moholy-Nagy -- Diary extract 1927 / Oscar Schlemmer -- Manifesto issued by the Syndicate of technical workers, painters and sculptors, Mexico City, 1922 -- LEF manifesto 1923 -- Surrealism. …”


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A quest for life : an autobiography by McHarg, Ian L.

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SEINS-FORMEN. UBER STRENGEN KONSTRUKTIVISMUS IN DER KUNST. by HANS HEINZ HOLZ

Table of Contents: “…Frontcover -- Titel -- Impressum -- Inhalt -- Vorab zu lesen -- Teil I: Prinzipien und Kategorien -- Kapitel 1: Ein bildnerischer Universalienrealismus -- Stijl -- Suprematismus -- Bauhaus -- »Kunst ist, was der Künstler macht« -- Einzelnes und Allgemeines -- Zur Axiomatik visueller Relationensysteme -- Kapitel 2: Konstruktivität -- Zum Begriff des strengen Konstruktivismus -- Konstruktion von Fläche und Farbe -- Kapitel 3: Logisch-dialektische Aspekte der Bildung von Serien -- Ars combinatoria -- Logische Grundregeln -- Teil II: Zwei Paradigmen konstruktiver Kunst -- Kapitel 1: Ontologischer und semantischer Konstruktivismus -- Vorgeschichte -- Struktur und Bedeutung -- Lohse und Stankowski -- Das Leibniz-Hegel-Syndrom -- Kapitel 2: Richard Paul Lohse: Dialektische Strukturen -- Allgemeine Charakteristik von Lohses Werk -- Epochengeschichtliche Situierung -- Axiome der Bildlogik -- Formalisierbarkeit von Bildgestalten -- Die Konstruktion dialektischer Formgefüge -- Politisch-gesellschaftliche Perspektive -- Kapitel 3: Anton Stankowski: Form als Zeichen -- Zum Selbstverständnis Stankowskis -- Welt und Zeichenwelt -- Bedeutungsentfaltung und Bedeutungsfeststellung -- Zeichen und Wirklichkeit -- Topologien: Wege und Orte, Grenze und Zentrum -- Kapitel 4: Max Bill: Die Totalität der Lebensform -- Stileinheit der Produkte -- Funktionelle Rationalität -- Cartesianismus in der Kunst -- Teil III: Paradigmen -- Verschränkung -- Kapitel 1: Die neue Generation der strengen Konstruktivisten -- Kapitel 2: Karl Duschek: Elementare Relationen -- Dialektik von Spannung und Entlastung -- Visuelle Zeichen-Systeme -- Welterkenntnis über Zeichensysteme -- Rationalität und Moralität -- Kapitel 3: Marcello Morandini: »Der fliegende Pfeil ruht.« -- Pflicht zum »Disegno« -- Rationalität -- ihr historischer Ort -- Stillgestellte Bewegung -- Ein neues Paradigma.…”
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Theme & improvisation : Kandinsky & the American avant-garde, 1912-1950 by Lorenz, Marianne

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American women sculptors : a history of women working in three dimensions by Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer

Table of Contents: “…The position of women -- Abstract sculpture -- Peggy Guggenheim and women patrons and dealers -- Constructivism and Bauhaus influences -- Figurative sculptors -- Direct carving -- Ceramics and design -- The Cranbrook Group -- Other ceramists.…”


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Paul Klee rediscovered : works from the Bürgi collection by Klee, Paul, 1879-1940

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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). by Klewitz, Bernd

Table of Contents: “…4.1 Communicative Language Teaching and the Grammar Question -- 4.2 The Common European Framework for Languages -- 4.3 Rethinking Foreign Language Teaching -- 4.4 The Two Tales of CLIL -- 4.5 CLIL Example-Teaching "Bauhaus" Professor Ingrid Zeller -- Northwestern University -- Chapter 5 Dimensions and Contexts of Bilingual Teaching -- Vignette "Intercultural Encounters in Student Exchanges" -- 5.1 Scotland -- 5.2 Canada and the US -- 5.3 Australia (& Deutsche Schule Melbourne) -- 5.4 Germany and Europe -- 5.5 Learning Principles -- 5.6 Principles of Quality Teaching (Luther College)…”
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Anti-fascism in European history : from the 1920s to today

Table of Contents: “…Hassenstab -- The Committee against Neofascism and Racial Prejudices: Nordic Anti-Fascist Organizing and International Solidarity in the 1960s / Pontus Järvstad -- Anti-fascism in the Land of Holy Water Blessed by the Swastika: The Case of the Slovak State / Marek Syrný and Anton Hruboň -- Mussolini, Vilfan, and the Slovenian Minority / Gianfranco Cresciani -- From the Bauhaus to Buchenwald and to Berlin: Anti-fascism and Career in the Life of Franz Ehrlich / Klaus Tragbar -- Part Three. …”
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Saint John's Abbey Church : Marcel Breuer and the creation of a modern sacred space by Young, Victoria M., 1964-

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SEINS-FORMEN. UBER STRENGEN KONSTRUKTIVISMUS IN DER KUNST by HANS HEINZ HOLZ

Table of Contents: “…Frontcover -- Titel -- Impressum -- Inhalt -- Vorab zu lesen -- Teil I: Prinzipien und Kategorien -- Kapitel 1: Ein bildnerischer Universalienrealismus -- Stijl -- Suprematismus -- Bauhaus -- »Kunst ist, was der Künstler macht« -- Einzelnes und Allgemeines -- Zur Axiomatik visueller Relationensysteme -- Kapitel 2: Konstruktivität -- Zum Begriff des strengen Konstruktivismus -- Konstruktion von Fläche und Farbe -- Kapitel 3: Logisch-dialektische Aspekte der Bildung von Serien -- Ars combinatoria -- Logische Grundregeln -- Teil II: Zwei Paradigmen konstruktiver Kunst -- Kapitel 1: Ontologischer und semantischer Konstruktivismus -- Vorgeschichte -- Struktur und Bedeutung -- Lohse und Stankowski -- Das Leibniz-Hegel-Syndrom -- Kapitel 2: Richard Paul Lohse: Dialektische Strukturen -- Allgemeine Charakteristik von Lohses Werk -- Epochengeschichtliche Situierung -- Axiome der Bildlogik -- Formalisierbarkeit von Bildgestalten -- Die Konstruktion dialektischer Formgefüge -- Politisch-gesellschaftliche Perspektive -- Kapitel 3: Anton Stankowski: Form als Zeichen -- Zum Selbstverständnis Stankowskis -- Welt und Zeichenwelt -- Bedeutungsentfaltung und Bedeutungsfeststellung -- Zeichen und Wirklichkeit -- Topologien: Wege und Orte, Grenze und Zentrum -- Kapitel 4: Max Bill: Die Totalität der Lebensform -- Stileinheit der Produkte -- Funktionelle Rationalität -- Cartesianismus in der Kunst -- Teil III: Paradigmen -- Verschränkung -- Kapitel 1: Die neue Generation der strengen Konstruktivisten -- Kapitel 2: Karl Duschek: Elementare Relationen -- Dialektik von Spannung und Entlastung -- Visuelle Zeichen-Systeme -- Welterkenntnis über Zeichensysteme -- Rationalität und Moralität -- Kapitel 3: Marcello Morandini: »Der fliegende Pfeil ruht.« -- Pflicht zum »Disegno« -- Rationalität -- ihr historischer Ort -- Stillgestellte Bewegung -- Ein neues Paradigma.…”
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Body modern : Fritz Kahn, scientific illustration, and the homuncular subject by Sappol, Michael

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Century of the child : growing by design, 1900-2000 by Kinchin, Juliet

Table of Contents: “…Hide and seek : remapping modern design and childhood -- New century, new child, new art : The kindergarten movement: building blocks of modern design ; Glasgow: children in the city beautiful ; Chicago: progressive era laboratory ; Comics and early animation ; Rome: modern arts, crafts, and education ; Living in utopia: children in the Gödöllő Arts and Crafts Colony ; Vienna: drawing out the child within -- Avant-Garde playtime : The crystal chain and architectural play ; Performing the modern: Swiss puppets ; Italy: the unruly child ; De Stijl, children, and constructivist play ; Bauhaus play and pedagogy ; "Colorful, specific, concrete" : Soviet children's books ; Manufacturing the artistic toy: Joaquín Torres-García and Ladislav Sutnar -- Light, air, health : The healthy body ; At home with modernism ; The new school ; "A setting for childlife": the new school in the United States ; Grete Lihotzky: from Vienna to Ankara ; Ernő Goldfinger and the Abbatts: from toys to urban health ; To the mountains and the sea ; Urban health: two centers -- Children and the body politic : Pioneering the revolution: children in Soviet Russia ; Who has the youth, has the future: the German youth movement ; Italy: colonial adventurers ; The Japanese military child ; A New Deal for youth ; "Sincerely themselves": child art in Britain and Colonial West Africa ; "This is how the world looks, my child": Friedl Dicker in Vienna and Auschwitz ; Children and the Spanish Civil War ; Growing up the shadow of World War II: children's books and games ; Processing trauma -- Regeneration : "Children asking questions": regeneration by design ; New starts: Japan and Poland ; Reclaiming the city: children and the new urbanism ; Back to school ; Good toys ; The modern playroom ; "Developing creativeness in children": Victor D'Amico at MoMA -- Power play : Space wars ; Disneyland ; Pop and play ; Italy: a new domestic landscape for children ; Retail fantasies ; Marketplace modern ; McDonald's ; Pee-wee's playhouse ; Less is more : technology and toys ; Japanese youth culture and childhood -- Designing better worlds : Deschooling society ; Every child should have a hundred parents ; Dismantling the museum ; Reggio Emilia children ; Design for the real world ; Classroom without walls ; Inclusive, therapeutic, and assistive design for children ; Design and the universal child ; The playground revolution.…”


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The architecture of Baltimore : an illustrated history

Table of Contents: “…"Dov'era e com'era": building after the fire ; Municipal art, parks, and verdant suburbs ; The Georgian Revival and Laurence Hall Fowler ; Apartments, row houses, and "architectural democracy" ; That's entertainment ; The Bauhaus style and Alexander Cochran -- 8. Building a Renaissance, 1945-2000. …”


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BILD-SPRACHEN. GESAMMELTE AUFSATZE ZU KUNST UND KUNSTLERN by HANS HEINZ HOLZ

Table of Contents: “…Aus Anlaß der Gesamtausstellung im Kunsthaus Zürich -- Fernand Léger -- Der proletarische Utopiker -- Miros Welt mythischer Zeichen -- Johannes Itten -- Altmeister des Bauhauses -- Farbe ist Leben -- Natur im Kunstwerk -- Johannes Ittens Lebenszyklus: Die Jahreszeiten -- III. …”
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Imagine Math 7 Between Culture and Mathematics

Table of Contents: “…Emmer M., Homage to Bauhaus -- Rottmann M., Paul’s Klee “Honey Writing”. …”
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BILD-SPRACHEN. GESAMMELTE AUFSATZE ZU KUNST UND KUNSTLERN. by HANS HEINZ HOLZ

Table of Contents: “…Aus Anlaß der Gesamtausstellung im Kunsthaus Zürich -- Fernand Léger -- Der proletarische Utopiker -- Miros Welt mythischer Zeichen -- Johannes Itten -- Altmeister des Bauhauses -- Farbe ist Leben -- Natur im Kunstwerk -- Johannes Ittens Lebenszyklus: Die Jahreszeiten -- III. …”
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