History of architecture

Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal.

A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern empires.

Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated.

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field.

An informed, photo-filled guide to "e;all of the essential stopping places [with] terrifically detailed information on the architectural joys of Rome.

Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid interrogates how, in the era of decolonisation, post-apartheid South Africa reckons with its past in order to shape its future.

Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape.

This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning.

Das Bauen steckt voller Regeln, ohne die diese anspruchsvolle Spielart menschlichen Handelns nicht funktionieren würde.

Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional attachment, yet its study remains under-developed in the context of the European house.

During the mid-nineteenth century a debate arose over the form and functions of the public art museum in Britain.

While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served.

Due to globalization, cultural spaces are now developing with no tangible connection to geographical place.

Los dispositivos de la arquitectura y la obturacion procedimental que sufre el proyecto contemporaneo representan un problema para la construccion de novedad y la formulacion de configuraciones habitativas contemporaneas.

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged settings in English architecture.

Academic architectural education started with the inauguration of the Academie d'Architecture on 3 December 1671 in France.

INDICE Capítulo 1 – Introducción Capítulo 2 – Psicología Capítulo 3 – Modelos Médicos Capítulo 4 – Relación Médico – Paciente Capítulo 5 – Ciclo Vital Capítulo 6 – Crisis Vitales Capítulo 7 – Personalidad Capítulo 8 – Personalidades Pertinentes Capítulo 9 – Grupo Familiar y Vínculos Capítulo 10 – Concepto de Normalidad y Salud Mental Capítulo 11 – Clasificación de las Enfermedades Mentales Capítulo 12 – Entrevista Médica – Motivos de Consulta Capítulo 13 – Entrevista Psicológica Capítulo 14 – Escuela Psicoanalítica Capítulo 15 – Las Psicologías Conductistas Capítulo 16 – Psicología Cognitiva Capítulo 17 – Psicología de la Gestalt Capítulo 18 – Prevención y Atención en Salud Mental Capítulo 19 – Especialización Médica Capítulo 20 – Recursos Terapéuticos en Salud Mental

Lincoln Hall at the University of Illinois, named to commemorate the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, has long been a familiar landmark on the Urbana-Champaign campus and the home for undergraduate and graduate work in the liberal arts and communication.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book traces and explores the evolution of taste from a design perspective: what it is, how it works, and what it does.

Mosque examines the history, culture, evolution and functions of the Muslim house of worship through the prism of its artistic objects and architectural elements.

A fully revised and updated second edition of this best-selling guidebook.

With contributors drawn from a broad range of disciplines, The Modern Period Room brings together a carefully selected collection of essays to consider the interiors of the modern era and their more recent reconstructions from a variety of different viewpoints.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.

Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial 'subject' and an architectural 'object'.

Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism.

Desde su primera edición en 1980, la Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna de Kenneth Frampton se ha convertido en un clásico imprescindible dentro de la bibliografía académica sobre historia de la arquitectura moderna.

Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies, gender, science, and visual studies, this volume analyses the impact John Ruskin has had on architecture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

First director of the Academie royale d'architecture, Francois Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today.

Wer waren die genialen Köpfe hinter den beeindruckenden Burgen Europas, deren Mauern noch heute die Landschaften prägen?

Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist.

This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's foundation.

This timely book aims to address a significant challenge in contemporary design and architecture, i.

Als 1948 die Trümmerlandschaften des Krieges den Traumlandschaften von der kommunistischen Zukunftsgesellschaft wichen, realisierte die Moskauer Führung mit den "Stalinschen Großbauten des Kommunismus" ein ehrgeiziges Erschließungsprogramm.

In the middle of the eigtheenth century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do: building fake Gothic ruins.

In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture.

Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks.

As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book reveals a history that is largely unknown, not only in the West, but also in India.

This book proposes that architecture can function as a true embodiment of generosity and examines how generosity in architecture operates within, and questions, current and historical socio-economic and political systems.

Toda arquitectura es museografica, sobre cualquier forma construida se despliegan trazas de nuestro habitar en el mundo.

El libro es producto de un estudio multidisciplinar realizado en el marco del subsidio otorgado por ANCyPT, FONCYT para el Proyecto de Investigación en Ciencia y Técnica, 2015-3831,"Historia y patrimonio de la Argentina moderna.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications.

New readings demonstrate the centrality of the rood to the visual, material and devotional cultures of the Middle Ages, its richness and complexity.

Few buildings carry such a freight of historical symbolism as the Palace of Versailles.

This title was originally published in 1954.

Modernists believed that "e;form follows function.

Christian Norberg-Schulz's Interpretation of Heidegger's Philosophy investigates the theoretical contribution of the world-renowned Norwegian architectural theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 - 2000) and considers his architectural interpretation of the writings of German philosopher Martin Heidegger.