Der Mittelrhein weist nicht nur eine reizvolle Landschaft auf, sondern auch eine außergewöhnliche Dichte an anspruchsvollen mittelalterlichen Kirchenbauten und Burgen.
Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture Architecture is bound up with our daily lives but, for most of us, it is experienced as a blur of habit.
One of the most remarkable men of the 18th century, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was known to many as 'The Omnipotent Magician' who could transform unpromising countryside into beautiful parks that seemed to be only the work of nature.
Lost San Francisco takes readers on a journey back to the buildings, parks, stadia, ferries - even cemetaries and prisoners - that time and progress have swept aside.
Invented History, Fabricated Power begins with an examination of prehistoric beliefs (in spirits, souls, mana, orenda) that provided personal explanation and power through ritual and shamanism among tribal peoples.
The railroads of the United States, now aggregating a hundred and fifty thousand miles and having several hundred different managements, are frequently spoken of comprehensively as the railroad system of the country, as though they constituted a unity in fact, and might be regarded and dealt with as an entirety, by their patrons and by the public authorities, whenever the conveniences they are expected to supply, or the conduct of managers and agents, come in question.
Typically we think of power as economic, political, or military, but fictional narratives attached to kings, empires, religious founders, and societies have been used to create and enhance power and authority since the beginning of civilization.
This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality.
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.
First published in 1989, Living Space in Fact and Fiction explores the house both in the 'real' world of the architect and the built environment, and in the fictional world of the novelist.
First published in 1989, Living Space in Fact and Fiction explores the house both in the 'real' world of the architect and the built environment, and in the fictional world of the novelist.
Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern period.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BERGER PRIZEA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A Country Life 'Architecture Book to Read in 2025'Elegant, erudite and entertaining .
"e;Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago's twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and builders.
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 book presents practical, applicable solutions that contribute to built heritage conservation, discussing challenges like resource constraints, ineffective legislation, lack of coordination between different relevant bodies, and absence of public awareness and involvement.
El patrimonio cultural, en sus múltiples manifestaciones, es un tema que se incorpora en los planes de estudio de distintas disciplinas, entre ellas la de la arquitectura.
Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnically defined groups are at the centre of current policies and societal debates.
In ihrem zweibändigen Werk inklusive eines digitalen Online-Anhangs erarbeitet Nataliya Demir-Karbouskaya eine bauliche Aufstellung und kunsthistorische Zusammenfassung der Bauten der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
In ihrem zweibändigen Werk inklusive eines digitalen Online-Anhangs erarbeitet Nataliya Demir-Karbouskaya eine bauliche Aufstellung und kunsthistorische Zusammenfassung der Bauten der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
This book presents practical, applicable solutions that contribute to built heritage conservation, discussing challenges like resource constraints, ineffective legislation, lack of coordination between different relevant bodies, and absence of public awareness and involvement.
The book analyzes and compares the architectural characteristics of four Armenian colonies from the beginning of the eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century: Gherla/Szamosujvar, Dumbraveni/Erzsebetvaros, Gheorgheni/Gyergyoszentmiklos and Frumoasa/Csikszepviz.
Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere.
Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere.
Originally published in 1947, this book examines the regional styles of architecture which developed inside England itself, particularly during the later medieval period.
Originally published in 1947, this book examines the regional styles of architecture which developed inside England itself, particularly during the later medieval period.
The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising the built environment, and offers an approach to understanding and shaping the built environment that supports (and benefits) human, and organismic, spatial intelligence.
