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...
This book explores the architecture of the Baltic States, a region still relatively unexplored in architectural literature. Nevertheless, this collection of essays provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the urban architectural environment...Loe edasi...
This book starts with a paradox: how the Chinese Cultural Revolutionthrough its adaptation by French Theory and French Theorys subsequent adaptation by Chinese Experimental Architectureshaped the Chinese reformative effort to redefine itself, amidst...Loe edasi...
This book explores Rudolph M. Schindlers design theory, architectural language, and methods, with a focus on his unbuilt projects. Drawing from his lecture notes, manuscripts, and drawings, it offers fresh insights into Schindlers legacy....Loe edasi...
This volume proposes an interdependent relationship between progress and obstacles in architecture and the built environment. It challenges the positive notion of progress, and the conception of progress and obstacle as a dichotomy....Loe edasi...
This book explores the malleability of race as a construct, one subject to continuous redefinitions in different times, cultures and places. It embraces discussions about theory, urban and regional debates, architectural design, history and educatio...Loe edasi...
This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi-colonial power interaction and cross-cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern Chin...Loe edasi...
This book provides a fresh look at Alvar Aaltos regional and community planning work, particularly the ways in which he incorporated sustainability, resiliency, energy, and health, and examines how contemporary architects and planners can learn from...Loe edasi...
This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, between 1935-1975, exploring how it was shaped by liturgical changes, social shifts and artistic influences. It investigates the theoretical foundations of modern Anglican...Loe edasi...
Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature considers how the domestic interior is constituted, imag(in)ed, contested, and mediated in the public forum of advice literature....Loe edasi...
The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country....Loe edasi...
This volume considers lived space as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present innovative views of the world of Late Antiquity, integrating social, economic, and cultural developments and putting centre-stage this...Loe edasi...
Drawing together key areas of cybernetic art practice in the UK and USA, this book assesses British and American cybernetic art as relating to the intersecting field of Behaviourism....Loe edasi...
Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert was one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. In this new edition of his memoir, he posthumously expands upon the first edition by 20,000 words, delving deeper into how his lifes experiences...Loe edasi...
This book, celebrating the East-West Studies in Architecture and Landscape at the University of Sheffield co-founded by Peter Blundell Jones in 1995, presents 16 distinctive case studies in order to underline the relevance of his case study methodol...Loe edasi...
In this book, readers are guided through the history, dating, development, care, repair and conservation of windows by expert authors in their fields. This new revised edition brings the book up to date and provides additional chapters to provide a...Loe edasi...
This book is the first to quantify energy inputs for a range of buildings worldwide and across the historical record. It consists of 14 accessibly-written case studies and is an important contribution to architectural historical research, written fo...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the city of Athens, this book examines architecture as something that produces culture and ideology rather than the opposite. Therefore, this book aims to complement architectural and urban theories that are based only on historical ove...Loe edasi...
This book explores spiritual wellness as a foundational attribute to urban planning and design. Planning and design strategies are presented through case studies from around the globe that highlight the importance of spiritual wellness consideration...Loe edasi...
Drawing from art history, architectural theory and constructed works, this book develops a set of design strategies practitioners might employ to develop thoughtful, architecturally rigorous reuse projects. It is essential reading for professionals...Loe edasi...
This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey today and how architecture plays a role in shaping th...Loe edasi...
This collection illustrates the evolving role of housing as a symbol of modernity, a tool for economic recovery, and a response to societal transitions. It draws on case studies that focus on the intersection of public housing, well-being, and socia...Loe edasi...
Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural, and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities. Individual chapters address different sets and typologies of global...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History features twenty-nine chapters written by leading architectural historians that define and shape future research, practice, and education....Loe edasi...
The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2025, Kirjastus: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781003665052)
Offering a practical guide to the past, present and future of housing, Dual Cities explores affordable housing cultures in London and New York through illustrated case studies....Loe edasi...
From the material to the procedural and the conceptual, this volume explores the practices of finishing in architecture within three currents: surfaces, projects, and most broadly, architectural times. It will be of interest to students and instruct...Loe edasi...
This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focusing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capitals financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth cent...Loe edasi...
The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlins standard housing type and its principal urban component the citys ubiquitous typology....Loe edasi...
