History of architecture

Explores Auschwitz's construction, revealing architectural plans and documents that expose the SS's role in orchestrating genocide.

Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period.

La mirada exclusivamente disciplinar de los planes de estudios, enturbia la comprension de por que se produjeron los cambio curriculares, impide comprender que otras alternativas se descartaron, cuales fueron las estructuras que se consideraron preferenciales y principalmente, que concepcion del curriculum se defendia tacitamente.

The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century.

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Worship Sound Spaces unites specialists from architecture, acoustic engineering and the social sciences to encourage closer analysis of the sound environments within places of worship.

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

A lavishly illustrated account of the buildings of the friars in the middle ages, bringing them vividly to life.

As the need for a circular construction industry becomes progressively more apparent, building practitioners are increasingly turning to salvaged building components to construct new projects.

This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context.

This book presents the first detailed mathematical analysis of the social, cognitive and experiential properties of Modernist domestic architecture.

This book is unique in describing the history of post war reconstruction from an entirely new perspective by focusing on the changing relationship between architects and building workers.

By improving our understanding of how the tangible and intangible dimensions of heritage are correlated, we could develop a relationship with heritage that goes beyond the mere act of conservation.

The peak of architectural ironwork in the 19th Century saw the spread of ornate decorative ironwork across the world.

In recent years, there has been a growing debate on the various ways that architecture and urbanism have served the triad of colonialism, nationalism and modernity.

Winner of the 2006 Fred Landon Award Osgoode Hall is a national monument and one of the architectural treasures of Canada.

Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden is a seminal resource for the spatial principles and techniques that shape traditional Chinese gardens.

Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture: Designing in Mixed Realities presents a curated selection of projects and texts contributed by leading international architects and designers who are using virtual reality technologies in their design process.

This book reveals the 'epistemic imposition' of architectural ideas and practices by colonists from the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies from the late-19th century onwards, exploring the ways in which this came to shape the profession up to the present day in what is now known as Indonesia.

This book applies anthropological concepts of social structure and evolutionary theory to Ancient Greece.

Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form.

This book offers an archaeological study on China's ancient capitals.

Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement.

This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243.

This groundbreaking study examines the intricate relationship between the rise of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie and the emergence of modern architecture, exploring this connection through major intellectual and theoretical works while also analyzing their tangible manifestations in buildings and architectural projects.

This edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492.

America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years.

Im architektonischen Entwerfen werden gerne Entwurfsmethoden zur kreativen Formfindung eingesetzt, die eine Loslosung vom traditionellen Formenkanon und eingefahrenen Denkmustern ermoglichen.

Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects and to the architecture profession.

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age.

"La elaboración de este libro ha sido motivada, entre otros factores, por los siguientes: inicialmente, por la propia experiencia personal en la SCEE (Sociedad Constructora de Establecimientos Educacionales) durante doce años de trabajo, tiempo en que alcancé a conocer a José Aracena, quien murió en 1971; luego, por un deseo de abordar la vida de Gustavo Mönckeberg, quien fuera el padre de Hernán Mönckeberg Barros (colega arquitecto) que, a su vez, fue presidente de la SCEE durante 1969 y 1970, y puso a mi disposición lo poco que restaba del archivo de su padre; finalmente, por dar a conocer la totalidad de su valiosa producción arquitectónica residencial, civil, educacional, religiosa, funeraria, etc.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary history of the Gothic, from antiquity up to the end of the long eighteenth century.

Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China?

Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism.

Health and Architecture offers a uniquely global overview of the healthcare facility in the pre-modern era, engaging in a cross-cultural analysis of the architectural response to medical developments and the formation of specialized hospitals as an independent building typology.

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that 'voiced' the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in the countries of early modern Europe.

Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction.

In sixty-seven exquisite watercolors and drawings, nationally famous architect Eugene Aubry captures on paper the sensibilities, the memories, and the grace that evokes Galveston, especially for those who are BOI (';born on the island').

A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative.

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.

Many British cities were devastated by bombing during the Second World War and faced stark economic dilemmas concerning reconstruction planning and implementation after 1945.

How to Read Architecture is based on the fundamental premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do, and that close observation matters.

Debo justificar ante todos los posibles lectores el porqué elijo a un autor para incluirlo en la colección.

Originally published in 1986 Holford is not just a biography of a major architect, planner and civic designer.

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s.