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Between 1928 and 1981 architectural and cultural critic Lewis Mumford exchanged nearly six hundred letters with Melville scholar and Harvard psychologist Henry A. Murray. "In Old Friendship" documents that richly rewarding interaction. Covering fifty years of devoted camaraderie between two exceptional minds, the book offers profound insights into the intellectual frustrations behind their significant careers and the emotional needs that framed their vibrant, often dramatic lives. To Mumford, a writer who sought to change the course of world events, iconoclastic Murray became a welcome confidant, critic, mentor, and friend. The letters reflect the wide range of public and private interests held by both men. Love’s entanglements are aired alongside literary labors. By chronicling the private worlds of these intellectual icons, this volume emerges as a crucial research tool for students of American intellectual history and culture, literary criticism, urbanism, architecture, and political arenas such as World War II and the Cold War. It offers a unique prism through which to observe the dramatic shifts in American society and culture in the twentieth century.

Geddes Mumford was born in New York in 1925 and was killed in Italy in 1944. Lewis Mumford''s narrative of his son''s nineteen years may be considered a memorial not to one boy only but to all the others as well, who, with their gifts and their promise, went down to darkness in the last -- must we say latest? -- war.

A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker''s "Sky Line" column.

Collection of essays and papers.

Dans cette biographie de l''écrivain, L. Mumford conjugue l''interprétation profonde de la vie et de l''oeuvre de Melville avec son propre univers.

Studies in literature, history, biography, technics, and contemporary society. 522p. Index. Bibliography. - Amazon.

"In this distinguished volume, Lewis Mumford discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the re-integration of modern civilization"--Back cover.

A collection of essays by the respected social commentator on some problems faced by cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, on the architecture of Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Wright, and on city and highway planning.

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En este hermoso y valioso volumen, Lewis Mumford hace balance crítico del pensamiento utópico: su historia, sus fundamentos básicos, sus aportaciones positivas, sus cargas negativas y sus debilidades. Releyendo las utopías más conocidas e influyentes y los mitos sociales que han desempeñado un papel de primer orden en Occidente, y contrastándolos con las utopías sociales parciales todavía recientes, Mumford valora el impacto que todas estas ideas podrían tener en cualquier nuevo camino hacia Utopía que estemos dispuestos a emprender. Presentamos por primera vez en castellano el primer libro que publicó Lewis Mumford, escrito con apenas veintisiete años, y que no dejó de reeditar a lo largo de toda su prolífica vida. La edición que presentamos cuenta además con un prólogo que el propio Mumford redactó casi cincuenta años después de su edición original. En un momento en el que cada vez se escuchan más voces que hablan de la necesidad de que la sociedad cambie de rumbo, y en un tiempo en el que todas las brújulas parecen irremediablemente rotas, este libro se antoja una lectura básica por su fino análisis, por su anticipación y por la lucidez propia del pensamiento de Mumford.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), le celebre architecte et theoricien de l''architecture organique, et l''historien et critique Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) ont joue un role crucial dans l''histoire de l''architecture et de l''urbanisme, comme en temoignent les quelque cent cinquante lettres qu''ils ont echangees de 1926 a 1959. Cette correspondance passionnante, clairvoyante et spirituelle, mais non depourvue de tensions, illustre a merveille le debat intellectuel sur l''architecture americaine et internationale du xxe siecle. C''est l''architecte, alors age de presque soixante ans et dans une phase difficile au milieu de sa carriere, qui prend l''initiative d''ecrire au jeune critique newyorkais, tout juste trentenaire, pour le remercier de son soutien. Toujours au fait de l''evolution contemporaine de l''architecture, les deux hommes evoquent, au fil du temps, leurs oeuvres respectives, leurs allies et leurs adversaires, l''avenement du Style international et les evenements politiques qui bouleversent l''Europe et les Etats-Unis. Ils s''opposent a la severe orthodoxie de modernistes comme Le Corbusier et pronent tous deux un meilleur usage de l''architecture et de la technologie au profit de l''humanite et de l''environnement, un point de vue qui faisait presque exception dans le panorama architectural de l''entredeux-guerres. Affectueux et elogieux, Wright tient a l''approbation de Mumford et aspire a un rapport plus etroit. Plus prudent, souhaitant conserver son independance en tant que critique, Mumford refuse les multiples invitations de Wright a lui rendre visite dans son domaine de Taliesin, mais il n''en admire pas moins l''oeuvre de l''architecte qui l''inspire. La Seconde Guerre mondiale interrompt brutalement cet echange profond et fecond, Mumford etant partisan de l''intervention des Etats-Unis en Europe, et Wright pacifiste et protectionniste. La correspondance ne reprendra que dix ans plus tard, a l''initiative de Wright. Une fois reconcilies, malgre leurs desaccords politiques et esthetiques, ces deux geants de la culture americaine, a la fois conservateurs et iconoclastes, multiplient les temoignages d''affection et d''admiration.

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Esta obra viene a ser un tratado que aborda las relaciones de la máquina con la totalidad del ser humano, en sus aspectos social e individual. La misma consta de tres partes indivisibles: la primera revela el proceso inicial de aquellas relaciones durante la edad media, la segunda describe las tres fases -eotécnica, paleotécnica y neotécnica- en las que el autor clasifica la historia de la máquina y la tercera analiza un cumulo de actitudes psicologicas en diferentes vertientes.