Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed for post-independence Ahmedabad that now faces an uncertain future.
Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed for post-independence Ahmedabad that now faces an uncertain future.
KC and Maurice are FrankiVerse Cafe's resident paranormal investigators and ethereal energy cleansers, and they have taken their REM pods, their field notebooks, and one extremely patient terrier named Lucy on a road trip through the haunted heart of the Pacific Northwest.
This book investigates the historical and functional significance of stonemasons' marks - symbols inscribed on individual stone blocks - as a communicative practice within the architectural and construction industries.
Set against a social and political urban landscape of segregation and forced removals, Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid unpacks postmodernism in the 1970s and 1980s as it unfolds in South Africa during the final brutal decade of apartheid.
This book considers the motives, ambitions, and malaprops of writing architectural history during the early-1900s - a moment that coincided with the emergence of modernity.
Set against a social and political urban landscape of segregation and forced removals, Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid unpacks postmodernism in the 1970s and 1980s as it unfolds in South Africa during the final brutal decade of apartheid.
This book investigates the historical and functional significance of stonemasons' marks - symbols inscribed on individual stone blocks - as a communicative practice within the architectural and construction industries.
This book considers the motives, ambitions, and malaprops of writing architectural history during the early-1900s - a moment that coincided with the emergence of modernity.
This book provides a compelling and timely exploration of passive design strategies in the coastal city of Bushehr, revealing how centuries-old architectural wisdom can inform today’s urgent sustainability agenda.
This book provides a compelling and timely exploration of passive design strategies in the coastal city of Bushehr, revealing how centuries-old architectural wisdom can inform today’s urgent sustainability agenda.
This book approaches the study from architectural perspectives, analyzing the collection of brochs’ features and classifying them based on regional differences.
This book approaches the study from architectural perspectives, analyzing the collection of brochs’ features and classifying them based on regional differences.
This handbook examines the important relationship between interior environments and their users, presenting diverse analyses of human-centred design approaches.
This handbook examines the important relationship between interior environments and their users, presenting diverse analyses of human-centred design approaches.
Este libro recoge el patrimonio arquitectonico del Valle del Cauca considerado como bien de interes cultural del ambito nacional por el Estado colombiano, y es el resultado de una investigacion que inicio en 2013, que tenia el proposito de comprender el estado real de las construcciones.
The middle Georgia area-including Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson Counties-is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture.
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.
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.
Before the first purpose-designed exhibition spaces and painting exhibitions emerged, showing art was mainly related to the habit of dressing up spaces for political commemorations, religious festivals, and marketing strategies.
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.
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.
Before the first purpose-designed exhibition spaces and painting exhibitions emerged, showing art was mainly related to the habit of dressing up spaces for political commemorations, religious festivals, and marketing strategies.
Vergessene Maschinen, ubersehene Meisterwerke, missverstandene Mechanik - dieses Buch offnet den Blick auf eine Seite der Antike, die in keinem Schulbuch steht.
Vor der Kuste Mikronesiens, verborgen im endlosen Blau des Pazifiks, ragen die Ruinen von Nan Madol aus dem Meer - ein "e;Venedig des Pazifiks"e;, erbaut aus gigantischen Basaltblocken.
Moscow under Construction explores the growth of place-based opposition to redevelopment practices in Moscow and consequent changes in city’s governance regime.
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.
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.