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• ~ COIDRSLlDES a LIS! HUllBER XV DR. BIDCK COIDR PRODUCTIONS T H E N E 11' C 0 N C E P T · 0 'F S P A C E MODERN .ABCHITECTURE SECOND SERIES . . Subjeo~s listed belO'lf . may be borrO'lfed in person trom THE MUSEUM OF YODEHH .ARr LIBRARY, 11 Weat 63rd St., NtlW' York 19, or examined there tor seleotion. Purohasers must addre~s requests to: DR. BLOCK COIDR PRODUCTIONS 1309 North _ Genesee Avenue Hollywood 46, Calirornia. ' THE NEW CONCEPT OF SPACE MODERN .ABCHITECTURE SERIES II 2• x 2• Color Slides 468 Color Slides in Cardboard Younts Single Color Slides in Cardboard lfounts In lots or 2~ or more Photographed by Dr. Fred Blook • 361.00 ea. 1.00 ea. .90 2" x 2" blaok and ~bite tloorplana -- No. 486 to 600 ea. .50 Some years after the first aeries of oolor slides on oontempol'&ry arohiteoture were isaued by Dr. Block, but in the same year in whioh thia aet appears, he also made available a ntlW' soriea titled Bomemaldng .!2!. Moderns. Conoerned with the funotional areas of the house or today and the objects designed for it, this domestio note sounded a truth or architecture in our time. SuperfioiaJ:!y~oonsidered, our·immediate era ~eems determined to make a popular translation, in the shapes or handicrafts and machine made produots, or previous viotories in design, bottling o!d wine, so to speak, in handier packages. Aotually, industrial design, at its beat moments, represents a mellDW' interlude between war•, conflicts in the creation ot formwhi~h constitute the essential nature of architeoture. Both in Europe and Alllerica, the first struggle involved a period or experiment in techniques and revolutions in form which culminated in atruotural worlca of precise design and balanced tensions. Reoorded in the -writing• of Nikolaus Pevsner, Philip C. Johnson, Siegfried Giedion and Bruno Zevi, it is an international and three-dimenaional aohievement wrought by poet engineers. However, the aecond struggle in pure arahit~oture aenters about the oonoept of spaoe organi&ation and interrelati~ Aahipe. Ita arohiteotonic image ia still functional but inoreaaingly fluid, its objeotive a humaniatio blend of internal and external relations governing the aite and the structure, ita medium a teohnical maatery luoid to the po~nt ot transparency. Thia is the direation whioh bestows order upon the bewildering and abounding variety of architeoture today. In thia aet, carefully tailored to educational needs, Dr. Blook displays the work·or arohiteota whose aotivity has been confined largely to California, Oregon, Ari&ona and adjaoent aeotiona. Every opportunity to interpret by photography and to emphasize by color has been intelligently exploited by a technioian of wide experienae in the craft of arohiteoture. In the present inatanoe, an extraordinary girt for spatial realization of tho thing aeen permits us to study tor ourselv~• two arts inspired by .a single vision. THE 'DY CONCEPl' OF SPACE MODERN ARCHITECTURE Order No.: WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD Taliesin West, the architeot'a winter home and work plaoe in the Arizona desert. 1938--1942 l Entrance 2 Boulder with Indian pictographs (seoond figure from left inspired the arahiteot•s sign) 3 View toward workroom, dining room and two-story building 4 View toward two-story building and architeot'a residence 6 Study building, long aide facing workroom 7 Interior or study with architeot•a desk 8 Interior of playhouse l!l.ee.n rrom entrance 9 Same, looking from screen toward sky through opened flaps 10 Playhouse, oorridor with opened flaps 11 Workroom, seen from study, showing formal and spatial relations between both buildings 12 Corner of workroom seen from study ...
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Full text | • ~ COIDRSLlDES a LIS! HUllBER XV DR. BIDCK COIDR PRODUCTIONS T H E N E 11' C 0 N C E P T · 0 'F S P A C E MODERN .ABCHITECTURE SECOND SERIES . . Subjeo~s listed belO'lf . may be borrO'lfed in person trom THE MUSEUM OF YODEHH .ARr LIBRARY, 11 Weat 63rd St., NtlW' York 19, or examined there tor seleotion. Purohasers must addre~s requests to: DR. BLOCK COIDR PRODUCTIONS 1309 North _ Genesee Avenue Hollywood 46, Calirornia. ' THE NEW CONCEPT OF SPACE MODERN .ABCHITECTURE SERIES II 2• x 2• Color Slides 468 Color Slides in Cardboard Younts Single Color Slides in Cardboard lfounts In lots or 2~ or more Photographed by Dr. Fred Blook • 361.00 ea. 1.00 ea. .90 2" x 2" blaok and ~bite tloorplana -- No. 486 to 600 ea. .50 Some years after the first aeries of oolor slides on oontempol'&ry arohiteoture were isaued by Dr. Block, but in the same year in whioh thia aet appears, he also made available a ntlW' soriea titled Bomemaldng .!2!. Moderns. Conoerned with the funotional areas of the house or today and the objects designed for it, this domestio note sounded a truth or architecture in our time. SuperfioiaJ:!y~oonsidered, our·immediate era ~eems determined to make a popular translation, in the shapes or handicrafts and machine made produots, or previous viotories in design, bottling o!d wine, so to speak, in handier packages. Aotually, industrial design, at its beat moments, represents a mellDW' interlude between war•, conflicts in the creation ot formwhi~h constitute the essential nature of architeoture. Both in Europe and Alllerica, the first struggle involved a period or experiment in techniques and revolutions in form which culminated in atruotural worlca of precise design and balanced tensions. Reoorded in the -writing• of Nikolaus Pevsner, Philip C. Johnson, Siegfried Giedion and Bruno Zevi, it is an international and three-dimenaional aohievement wrought by poet engineers. However, the aecond struggle in pure arahit~oture aenters about the oonoept of spaoe organi&ation and interrelati~ Aahipe. Ita arohiteotonic image ia still functional but inoreaaingly fluid, its objeotive a humaniatio blend of internal and external relations governing the aite and the structure, ita medium a teohnical maatery luoid to the po~nt ot transparency. Thia is the direation whioh bestows order upon the bewildering and abounding variety of architeoture today. In thia aet, carefully tailored to educational needs, Dr. Blook displays the work·or arohiteota whose aotivity has been confined largely to California, Oregon, Ari&ona and adjaoent aeotiona. Every opportunity to interpret by photography and to emphasize by color has been intelligently exploited by a technioian of wide experienae in the craft of arohiteoture. In the present inatanoe, an extraordinary girt for spatial realization of tho thing aeen permits us to study tor ourselv~• two arts inspired by .a single vision. THE 'DY CONCEPl' OF SPACE MODERN ARCHITECTURE Order No.: WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD Taliesin West, the architeot'a winter home and work plaoe in the Arizona desert. 1938--1942 l Entrance 2 Boulder with Indian pictographs (seoond figure from left inspired the arahiteot•s sign) 3 View toward workroom, dining room and two-story building 4 View toward two-story building and architeot'a residence 6 Study building, long aide facing workroom 7 Interior or study with architeot•a desk 8 Interior of playhouse l!l.ee.n rrom entrance 9 Same, looking from screen toward sky through opened flaps 10 Playhouse, oorridor with opened flaps 11 Workroom, seen from study, showing formal and spatial relations between both buildings 12 Corner of workroom seen from study ... |