Graphic design + architecture, a 20th century history : a guide to type, image, symbol, and visual storytelling in the modern world /: a guide to type, image, symbol, and visual storytelling in the modern world. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Poulin.
• Other Names: Poulin, Richard
• Contents: Introduction -- Foreword / James Stewart Polshek -- Foreword / Deborah Sussman -- I. Pre-20th-Century influences -- Petrograms and petroglyphs -- Stonehenge -- Hieroglyphics -- The Greek iconic alphabet -- Roman monumental inscriptions -- The Pantheon -- Church of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo -- Chartres Cathedral -- Basilica of Santa Maria Novella -- Piazza Campidoglio -- Taj Mahal -- The Shaker aesthetic -- Corn Palace -- The Arts and Crafts Movement -- II. The Modern Age 1900-1950 -- 1. The impact of invention 1878-1933 -- The incandescent lightbulb -- Eiffel Tower -- The modern billboard -- Hector Guimard and the Paris Metro -- Commerce and the urban streetscape -- The Great White Way -- Luna Park -- New York City Subway -- One Times Square and the first Zipper -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Larkin Building atrium -- La Samaritaine Department Store -- Michelin Building -- Horn & Hardart Automat -- Grand Central Terminal -- On the road -- Georges Claude and liquid fire -- Hollywoodland -- Burma-Shave -- Edward Johnston, Henry Beck, and the London Underground -- 2. Art and Technology, a new unity 1901-1928 -- Otto Wagner and Die Zeit -- Peter Behrens and AEG -- El Lissitsky and Proun -- Aleksandr Rodchenko and Mosselprom -- Gerrit Rietveld and Schröder House -- Herbert Bayer -- J.J.P Oud and Café de Unie -- Dessau Bauhaus -- Izvestia -- Piet Zwart and First Church of Christ Scientist -- Theo van Doesburg and Café l'Aubette -- Paul Renner and Futura -- De Volharding Cooperative -- 3. Style and the mass market 1924 -- 1947 -- Miami Art Deco District -- Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes -- Grauman's Chinese Theatre -- The New York City skyscraper -- Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall -- Streamline styling in America -- The drive-in service station -- Douglas Leigh and the Sign Spectacular -- The modern retailer -- 4. Between the Wars 1932 -- 1945 -- PSFS Building -- Century of Progress Exposition -- Fascist and Nazi Propaganda -- New York World's Fair -- Alvar Aalto and the Finnish Pavilion -- Walter Dorwin Teague and the National Cash Register Pavilion -- Works Progress Administration (WPA). III. The Post-war world 1950 -- 2000 -- 5. Populuxe : the American influence 1948 -- 1961 -- Tail o' the Pup -- Las Vegas and the neon desert -- Morris Lapidus and the Populist Hotel -- Alvin Lustig and Northland Shopping Center -- Holiday Inn -- Howard Johnson's -- Los Angeles's Watts Towers -- McDonald's -- Walt Disney and the happiest place on Earth -- Hollywood Walk of Fame -- 6. Modernism and the International Style 1950 -- 1979 -- Gyorgy Kepes and the influence of light -- Luis Barragán and Towers of Satellite City -- Josef Müller-Brockmann -- Jock Kinneir, Margaret Calvert, and the British Traveler -- The first American Modernist : Lester Beall -- Paul Rand and Westinghouse -- Chermayeff & Geismar and Chase Manhattan Bank -- Alexander Girard and La Fonda del Sol -- Mobil Oil and the suburban landscape -- New York World's Fair -- CBS and Black Rock -- Lou Dorfsman, Herb Lubalin, and Gastrotypographicalassemblage -- John Massey and the Art of the Banner -- Barbara Stauffacher Solomon and Sea Ranch -- Unimark and the New York City subway system -- The Boston T -- Rudolph de Harak and 127 John Street -- Lance Wyman and the Mexico Olympics -- Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes and A Sign System Manual -- Corita Kent and Boston Gas Company -- The "new" construction barricade -- Otl Aicher and the Munich Olympics -- TKTS Time Square -- Number 9 -- Harper & George -- Adrian Frutiger and Paris-Roissy Airport -- AIGA symbol signs -- Page, Arbitrio & Resen and I.M. Pei -- Armin Hoffman and Disentis -- John Follis and Architectural Signing and Graphics -- 7. Postmodernism and beyond 1966 -- 1995 -- Venturi Scott Brown and Associates -- James Wines and Best Products -- Studio of Richard Haas -- Jean Widmer and Centre Georges Pompidou -- Milton Glaser and the Big Kitchen -- Dan Reisinger and Yad Vashem -- Turin's Lingotto -- Maya Lin and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Takenobu Igarashi and the Architectural Alphabet -- Los Angeles Summer Olympics -- Cincinnati Zoo -- The new American marketplace -- Communication Arts and Bayside -- 712 Fifth Avenue -- Solana -- Hold Everything Prototype Store -- Studio Dumbar and PTT -- Musée de Louvre -- Sussman/Prejza and Walt Disney World -- Shea Stadium -- Chicago O'Hare's United Terminal walkway -- Erik Spiekermann, the Berlin Transportation System -- Alan Fletcher's house gates -- Corning Glass -- North Hollywood pump station -- The influence of universal design -- Disney's all-star resorts -- Fremont Street Experience -- Morgan Stanley in Times Square -- IV. The beginning of the 21st Century -- LAX Airport -- Universal City Walk -- NJPAC Lucent Center -- National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation -- Bibliotheca Alexandrina -- Towers of Light -- The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts -- MoMA QNS -- Melbourne Exhibition Centre -- Seattle Central Library -- Bloomberg Headquarters -- S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications -- The New York Times Building -- Newseum -- GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall -- Brooklyn Botanic Garden -- The Cooper Union -- Gough Street Banners -- X Exhibition -- Photograffeur JR -- Glossary.
• Publisher Details: Beverly, MA : Rockport Publishers
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages), illustrations (some color), color maps
• Subjects: 741.609/04; Design -- History -- 20th century; Visual communication -- History -- 20th century; Communication in architecture -- History -- 20th century; Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century; DESIGN -- History & Criticism; DESIGN -- Reference; DESIGN -- Graphic Arts -- General; Architecture and society; Communication in architecture; Design; Visual communication; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1610586336; 9781610586337
• Related ISBNs: 9781592537792; 1592537790
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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