Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus
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Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus

Profiles in Architecture and Design

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus

Profiles in Architecture and Design

About this book

Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus collects the unparalleled writings of legendary British wordsmith Janet Abrams for the first time. From pivotal figures in international modernism to the pioneers of digital medium, Abrams explored the ideas, theories, and emotions that fueled their work.The book's twenty-six profiles, written in Abrams's signature, personal, often hilarious style, include Reyner Banham, Berthold Lubetkin, Philip Johnson, Paul Rand, Phyllis Lambert, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Muriel Cooper, April Greiman, and Michael Bloomberg. Many of the profiles are back in print for the first time, having originally appeared in Blueprint, I.D. magazine, the Independent, and in books and catalogs from the 1980s through the early 2000s. A foreword by Blueprint's founding editor, Deyan Sudjic, and new reflections by Abrams set the stage.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction: Tightrope Walking with the “Circus of the Perpetually Jet-Lagged”
  7. Lubetkin Speaks: Berthold Lubetkin: Building Design, 1982
  8. (Mis)Reading Between the Lines: Peter Eisenman: Blueprint, 1985
  9. My Tea with Andrée: Andrée Putman: Blueprint, 1985
  10. Miami Vice Versa 1: Of Vice and Vixen: Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear / Arquitectonica: Blueprint, 1986
  11. Miami Vice Versa 2: Town Kriers: Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk / Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.: Blueprint, 1986
  12. Now We Are Eighty: Philip Johnson: Blueprint, 1987
  13. Delirious Visions: Rem Koolhaas: Blueprint, 1988
  14. Reyner Banham: A Past Master: Blueprint, 1988
  15. Call That a Fish, Frank?: Frank Gehry: Blueprint, 1988
  16. When the Sky Falls In: Coop Himmelb(l)au: Blueprint, 1988–89
  17. A Tale of the Riverbank: Sir Christopher Wren: The Independent, 1989
  18. Britischer Architekt: James Stirling and Michael Wilford: The Independent, 1989
  19. Phyllis’s Choice: Phyllis Lambert: Blueprint, 1990
  20. The World According to Mickey: Michael Eisner: Blueprint, 1991
  21. “This Must Be Progress”—The Master of Modernism on God, Graphics, and Other Devotions: Paul Rand: I.D. Magazine, 1993
  22. Woman and Her Symbols: April Greiman: it’snotwhatyouthinkitis / cen’estpascequevouscroyez arc en rĂȘve centre d’architecture, 1994
  23. Gesamtkunstwerk: Coming Home to Rome: Michael Graves: Michael Graves: Designer Monographs 3, 1994
  24. Richard Saul Wurman Gets What He Deserves: I.D. Magazine, 1994
  25. Muriel Cooper’s Visible Wisdom: I.D. Magazine, 1994
  26. A Man for All Media: Bob Stein: I.D. Magazine, 1995
  27. When We Were Very Young: Philip Johnson: Blueprint, 1996
  28. Best of All Possible Worlds: David Rockwell: I.D. Magazine, 1996
  29. Information Overlord: Michael Bloomberg: Rethinking Design 4: Medium, 1997
  30. The Choreography of Site-Specific Media: Lisa Strausfeld: Profile: Pentagram Design, 2004
  31. Julie Snow: The Rugged and the Refined: Julie Snow Architects, 2005
  32. Ge(ne)ography: Ben Fry: Else/Where: Mapping—New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, 2006
  33. Postscripts
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. Credits
  36. About the Author
  37. Copyright