Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today....Loe edasi...
This book is an attempt to comprehend the reasons for modernity in the Balkans, through the figures of Le Corbusier and Josip Broz Tito. It presents a series of intersecting relations to trace a path that gives this region an unquestionably central...Loe edasi...
This handbook examines the important relationship between interior environments and their users, presenting diverse analyses of human-centred design approaches....Loe edasi...
First published in 2002, Germain Boffrands Livre dArchitecture is one of the most original books on architecture ever written in France. Translated for the first time the text is accompanied by an extensive introduction and notes which explain Bof...Loe edasi...
This book calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination of common and marginalised precedents. It offers an alternative to the compulsion to normalise, universalise, repeat, and re-enact, tra...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking study examines courtyard architecture across Paris, Florence, Siena, Granada, and Yazd to reveal how the deliberate creation of emptinessthe bounded voidfunctions as architectures primary generative principle....Loe edasi...
This new English edition of Roman Building makes available the most up-to-date revision of the text to a new generation of English scholars of Roman architecture and technology....Loe edasi...
Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life. This volume explores how cartographic practices are being reimagined across disciplines to understand and re...Loe edasi...
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-garde takes a terminological, sociological and semiological approach that develops by tracing the avant-garde in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process...Loe edasi...
This book describes one hundred memorable places that have been important in the architectural career of the author. The illustrated essays provide insights from a variety of buildings and places on five continents: from different eras, from the eve...Loe edasi...
Construct introduces a new category of architecture and engineering in our cities. These structures are highly visible, large-scale and built without traditional designers. These constructions represent an overlooked but significant aspect of our ur...Loe edasi...
Seamlessly combining architecture with cognitive science and neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology, and social theory and anthropology, in clear, direct and engaging prose, this book will be essential reading for all architecture s...Loe edasi...
This first comprehensive overview of the process of commissioning and financing the construction of cathedrals in the Middle Ages reveals a financing system almost as monumental as the cathedrals themselves....Loe edasi...
This volume examines this increased emphasis on motion with eight essays encompassing a geographical span of Portugal to German-speaking lands and a disciplinary range from architectural history to English....Loe edasi...
The importance of place as a unique spatial identity has been recognized since antiquity. This volume examines the concept of place as it relates to architectural production and building knowledge in early modern Europe (1400-1800)....Loe edasi...
This book reassesses the origins and significance of Gothic architecture and approaches the interpretation of the twelfth-century church through its materiality Integrates the twelfth-century conceptualization of architecture within art, science, a...Loe edasi...
Made up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together or separates the past and the present, the public and the private, the center and the periphery. The present volume focuses on the...Loe edasi...
This book examines the Dutch so-called Golden Age though its artistic and architectural legacy, recapturing the global dimensions of this period by looking beyond familiar artworks to consider exotic collectibles and trade goods, and the ways in whi...Loe edasi...
The book Modelling Social Housing delves into the intricate relationship between everyday social life and the architectural landscapes of social housing across European cities....Loe edasi...
