David A. Hanks Livres

Awarded the 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze for Architecture, this work explores innovative design and architectural concepts. It delves into the intersection of creativity and functionality, showcasing groundbreaking projects and the visionaries behind them. The book highlights the importance of sustainable practices and the role of architecture in shaping communities. With rich visuals and insightful commentary, it serves as both an inspiration and a resource for architects, students, and enthusiasts alike.

The book explores the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, a pivotal artist of the Gilded Age, renowned for his contributions to American decorative arts. It features a diverse selection of Tiffany's creations from the Driehaus Collection, presented in the context of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum's inaugural exhibition. The exhibition highlights the artistic and architectural significance of Tiffany's designs, reflecting the opulence of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

More than 240 fascinating photos bring to light the importance of feed mills to American townspeople, economies, and heritage. This wealth of contemporary new photos, together with some vintage images from museum collections, give us a visual record of a changing, and passing, American institution. Covering a time frame of more than 150 years, the book's illuminating text explains what feed mills and grain elevators do, how they work, the role they have played in the American agricultural economy, and the relationship of these businesses to their farmercustomers. By focusing on three mills in depth we learn the changing technological and economicconditions that shaped, and sometimes destroyed, mills. These evocative photos capture mills in the southern half of Michigan's lower peninsula, chosen to be representative of the US mills as a whole in terms of their variety, historic evolution, and characteristics.

Alfred H. Barr Jr., Gründer des Museum of Modern Art in New York, und Philip Johnson, angesehener Architekt, brachten Ende der 1920er-Jahre die Idee des Bauhauses nach Amerika – noch bevor Exilanten aus Nazi-Deutschland die Vorstellung von Architektur und Einrichtung als funktionales Gesamtkunstwerk vollends in den USA festigten. Barr und Johnson betrachteten Grafik-, zweckmäßiges Möbel- und Industriedesign sowie Fotografie als der Malerei und Skulptur ebenbürtig, ließen maschinengefertigte Objekte und Handwerk zur anerkannten Kunst werden. Sie kuratierten außergewöhnliche Ausstellungen wie Machine Art (1934) und Bauhaus: 1912–1928 (1938) im MoMA und schufen exklusive Einrichtungskonzepte in privatem Wohnraum. Die umfangreichen Aufsätze und Bilderserien verfolgen, wie der Modernismus Einzug in die amerikanische Kulturland hielt. Künstler (in Auswahl): Herbert Bayer, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Christian Dell, Walter Gropius, Josef Hartwig, Bruno Mathsson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, Wilhelm Wagenfeld