History of architecture

Ernst L.

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "e;engineering pope"e; Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds.

This classic portfolio uses elevations, floor plans, and other line drawings by Scotland's first great classical architect to document the high Scottish style of the eighteenth century.

La fascinación de las sociedades contemporáneas por las cosas antiguas, por los objetos que vienen del pasado y nos hablan de él, parece originarse y sostenerse en el contraste que estos producen con el presente, dimensión temporal esta última caracterizada por una permanente inestabilidad.

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts.

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Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2025An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons.

Anyone with an interest in buildings and the built environment would do well to purchase a copy of Owen Hopkins' book.

The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses and geometric analyses attempting to explain its form and meaning.

This is a second edition of a textbook that provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic worlds.

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque - when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor - in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture.

This handbook, representing the collaboration of 40 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present.

This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development.

Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are commonly identified with the concept of utopia.

Perspective as Logic offers an architectural examination of the filmic screen as an ontologically unique element in the discipline's repertoire.

Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls-these are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia.

With over one billion people worldwide living in informal settlements and enduring substandard housing conditions, these areas present one of the greatest urban challenges of our time.

This superb guide brings the work of Filippo Coarelli, one of the most widely published and well-known scholars of Roman topography, archeology and art, to a broad English-language audience.

A classic account of the villa-from ancient Rome to the twentieth century-by "e;the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture"e; (Architect's Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America.

"La ciudad dulce" recorre la vida del Arquitecto Ernesto Vautier (1898-1988), su búsqueda de casi un siglo, de una arquitectura "comprendida como creación colectiva".

Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture.

Islamic Art and Beyond is the third in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar.

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renowned art historian Alexei Lidov.

This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture.

Turner was deeply affected by the world in which he lived, the sciences that explained it, and the conflicts and accomplishments of his society.

Particularmente en la industria de la construccion, algunos profesionales preocupados por los problemas que deben sortear a diario, todavia no terminan de convencerse de la importancia vital que este aspecto tiene, si queremos que se vean reflejados en la calidad de vida y preservacion de la salud de los trabajadores de la construccion.

Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity.

Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

Volume 2 of monumental 3-volume classic offers comprehensive and detailed coverage of architectural terms, individuals and national styles.

The global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots.

The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academic institution as a major force behind the perpetuation of a controlling society.

Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture is, with wit and devastating honesty.

This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position.

Bringing together 12 original essays, Shaping the American Interior maps out, for the first time, the development and definition of the field of interiors in the United States in the period from 1870 until 1960.

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.

A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinkingThe vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning.

A lively journey around the worlds brutalist buildings Frieze.

Mit Sankt Fronleichnam in Aachen und Sankt Anna in Düren hat Rudolf Schwarz die Baukunst im Abstand eines Vierteljahrhunderts um zwei sakrale Utopien bereichert.

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years.

Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere.

Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities.

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of "e;neo-avant-garde"e; architecture.

Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private.

Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years-in German architectural culture and society, the transnational Progressive reform movement, Feminist discourse, and International Modernism-and its continued relevance.

This book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground.

First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects.