First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced a generation of students and critics interested in the formation of attitudes, themes, and forms which were characteristic of arti...
First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced a generation of students and critics interested in the formation of attitudes, themes, and forms which were characteristic of artists and architects working primarily in Europe between 1900 and 1930 under the compulsion of new technological developments in the first machine age.
…As an architect he appears as one of the first to build in a manner that really valued simplicity of form as a virtue in itself, yet usually spoiled that simplicity by usages that willfully departed from it, or materials that concealed it. As a write he was prolific and usually well-informed, yet much of his influence depends upon one, or possibly two, of his most opinionated essays. As a person he was turbulent, combative, contradictory and capable of turning personal quarrels into public crusades, yet he was admired and courted, and people are still proud to claim his acquaintance, twenty or more years after his death. (查看原文)
The subject of this essay – the status of architectural decoration – was not a new one, and in the early years of the century was a very live issue. But Loos’s attitude towards the subject goes far beyond that of any of his contemporaries, and directly contradicts that of some of the most influential bodies of opinion, notably the Werkbund... (查看原文)
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0 有用 奥尔加提桶跑路 2022-04-13 13:44:54
Werkbund；Factory；Bauhaus；开头和结语读完了
1 有用 Boyuan 2013-02-27 09:51:48
不太理解为什么会被标签为“乱七八糟”……至少我觉得开头讲的19世纪学院和理性主义的源流还是挺清楚的
0 有用 天天 2019-04-08 05:09:41
作者把建筑拉回到了一个时代投射下的技术与建筑的关系中，重新看这时代内的设计，文本里的建筑依旧以形式为主，但是时代技术的美学感知必要投射到形式以及其他的部分的，只是读的人总觉得别扭。也罢，也算有趣的反映了作者的师出和下一步的走势。书中提到了富勒的机械来自于第一手的技术经验和对其他技术的观察，我理解为时代的入手之处。行文之琐碎冗长，阅读感受极其不美。
1 有用 s 2010-09-30 19:22:41
强啊强啊强啊！我想要这分析能力！不建议当入门书看，可以当作哲学书来看
0 有用 トリックスター 2020-10-22 23:50:44
中文版太渣了，还是得看原版