Four Villas (1928-39)


LARP 535-401







Provisional Bibliography:

VILLA SAVOYE (Le Corbusier, Poissy-sur-Seine, France, 1928-31)
VILLA TUGENDHAT (Mies van der Rohe, Brno, Czech Republic, 1928-30)
VILLA MULLER (Adolf Loos, Prague, Czech Republic, 1929-30)
VILLA MAIREA (Alvar Aalto, Noormarkku, Finland, 1937-1939)

(R) Denotes readings placed on reserve in the Fine Arts Library

1/ Villa Savoye & Le Corbusier (1887-1965)

(R) Tim Benton, The Villas of Le Corbusier: 1920-1930 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987)

Kenneth Frampton (text), Roberto Schezen (photography), Le Corbusier: Architecture of the 20th Century (New York: Abrams, 2002)

(R) Stanilaus von Moos, Le Corbusier: Elements of a Synthesis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979)

William J. R. Curtis, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms (New York: Rizzoli, 1986)

Jacques Sbriglio, Le Corbusier: La Villa Savoye / The Villa Savoye (Paris: Fondation le Corbusier / Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999)

2/ Villa Tugendhat & Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)

Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat & Wolf Tegethoff (eds.), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Tugendhat House (New York: Springer Verlag, 2000)

Dusan Riedl & Libor Teply, The Villa of the Tugendhats Created by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Brno (Brno: Heritage Institute / Brno City Museum, 1997)

Philip Johnson, Mies van der Rohe (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1947)

(R) Wolf Tegethoff, Mies van der Rohe: The Villas & Country Houses (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1985)

(R) Detlef Mertins (ed.), The Presence of Mies (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1994), “The grid, the /cloud/, and the detail” (Rosalind Krauss), “Mies not” (Beatriz Colomina), “Odysseus and the oarsmen, or Mies's abstraction once again” (K. Michael Hays)

Wild & Wilder: Once & Future Ruins (Travelogue)

3/ Villa Muller & Adolf Loos (1870-1933)

(R) Leslie van Duzer & Kent Kleinman, Villa Muller: A Work of Adolf Loos (New York: Princeton Architecture Press, 1994)

(R) Adolf Loos, Spoken Into the Void: Collected Essays 1897-1900, trans. Jane O. Newman & John H. Smith (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982)

(R) Beatriz Colomina (ed.), Sexuality & Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992)

__________, “Intimacy & Spectacle: The Interior of Adolf Loos”, Strategies in Architectural Thinking, John Whiteman, Jeffrey Kipnis & Richard Burdett (eds.) (Chicago: Chicago Institute for Architecture & Urbanism, 1992)

(R) Massimo Cacciari, Architecture & Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture, trans. Stephen Sartarelli (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), “Loos & His Angel” pp. 143-198

Jennifer Bloomer, Architecture and the Text: The (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)

*Zahrada - Park - Krajina (05/2002) - Three articles (in Czech w/ illustrations) surveying the recent reconstruction of Villas Tugendhat and Muller – 1/ Vitezslava Ondrejova, "Rekonstrukce zahrady Mullerovy vily", pp. 4-7; 2/ Jaroslav Petru, "Mullerova vila", pp. 8-9; 3/ Premysl Krejcirik, Kamila Krejcirikova, "Vila Tugendhat: Souborne umelecke dilo", pp. 10-13

4/ Villa Mairea & Alvar Aalto (1898-1976)

Aalto at MoMA (February 19 - May 19, 1998) - Curated by Peter Reed

Kristiina Paatero, "Villa Mairea", in Alvar Aalto in Seven Buildings: Interpretations of an Architect's Work (Helsinki: Museum of Finnish Architecture, 1999), pp. 47-63

(R) Göran Schildt, Alvar Aalto: The Complete Catalogue of Architecture, Design and Art (London: Academy Editions, 1994)

Richard Weston, Villa Mairea: Alvar Aalto (London: Phaidon, 1992)

George Baird & [photos] Yukio Futagawa, Alvar Aalto (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971)

Juhani Pallasmaa & Yukio Futagawa, Alvar Aalto, Villa Mairea, Noormarkku, Finland, 1937-39, GA 67 (Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita Tokyo, 1985)

ABSTRACT - U PENN SYLLABUS





Return to Archive - Grotto Directory


Links to other sites on the Web

Villa Savoye (1928-31)
Villa Tugendhat (1928-30)
Villa Muller (1929-30)
Villa Mairea (1937-39)
Aalto at MoMA

Landscape Agency New York - 2000/2003

1