History of architecture

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.

This book represents a reflection on the policies of preservation that were established and interventions for restoration that occurred in Iran before and in the years after the Khomeinist Revolution, as well as being an analysis of the impact that Italian restoration culture has had in the country.

Argues that the fundamental goals of architecture remain valid despite constant changes in human activities, technologies, and styles.

For more than three thousand years, Chinese life – from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home – was configured around the courtyard.

Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars.

Sehrengiz is an Ottoman genre of poetry written in honor of various cities and provincial towns of the Ottoman Empire from the early sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century.

Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham.

This anthology honors Lawrence Nees' expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Delaware.

A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices.

Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis.

This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city.

Este trabajo contiene un extenso desarrollo sobre el rol del arquitecto dentro del contexto social argentino, es especial el de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, tribunales nacionales y Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Originally published in 1988, The Castles in England and Wales is a comprehensive treatment of the archaeology of the castles in England and Wales.

In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary history of the Gothic in nineteenth-century British, American and European culture.

Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements-this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest.

Structural engineering is central to the design of a building.

This book revisits the history of the international garden city town planning movement in the early twentieth century, focusing on the significance of various forms of 'physical culture' - sport, recreation, leisure, and other active body practices - within garden city planning discourse and the development of some of the first garden city communities in the United Kingdom and United States.

Based on extensive architectural and archaeological research, these papers present a series of studies on the art, buildings, settlement patterns, and land use in Iraq, Yemen and Oman, from the pre-Islamic period to modern times.

In Windows: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the history, dating, development, care, repair and conservation of windows by authors who are experts in their fields.

Heroines of Space looks at four groundbreaking women architects: Eileen Gray, Lilly Reich, Margarethe Schutte-Lihotzky, and Charlotte Perriand.

This book explains and celebrates the richness of Englishchurches and cathedrals, which have a major place inmedieval architecture.

Discover the stories of some of the most breathaking and historic great houses of London, along with their secrets, in this lavishly illustrated compedium.

Este libro busca alentar la reflexion y el debate sobre los temas urbanos a partir, primeramente, del analisis de la dimension cultural de las ciudades asi como de los distintos aspectos que conforman su estructura: el medio natural, las actividades, las densidades, la poblacion, el transporte, el transito, la identidad, la economia.

El presente texto, en lugar de considerar la obra como un hecho consumado, analiza las etapas de la construccion en forma correlativa uniendo unas con otras hasta llegar a la finalizacion del edificio.

More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents.

Gebaude werden nicht nur fur den Durchschnittsburger konzipiert - sie bieten eine schutzende Hulle fur alle Menschen.

This illustrated study comprises a comprehensive and detailed account of the historical development of Greek military architecture and defensive planning, specifically in Arkadia in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain.

Since 1673 when Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet portaged through the territory that is now Chicago, water transportation has been vital to the city's growth.

This is the first history of Stockholm's development from the city's unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today.

An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long period of Kavala's expansion over five centuries under Ottoman rule.

A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts.

The architecture in Burma represents a mixture of the country's history, politics, natural assets, religion, and superstition.

Este trabajo realizado hace mas de 2 decadas, recoge datos y expresa opiniones de profesionales que tuvieron acceso a casi 30 centros urbanos en 13 provincias argentinas.

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

This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century.

This book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced what could be referred to as a totalitarian cultural landscape.

The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

This book explores how the concept of 'region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice.

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today.

For thousands of years an enigmatic and astonishingly beautiful piece of Roman art has captivated those who have come in contact with it.

This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century.

Houses and Domestic Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hospitaller Malta is a study concerned with a wide spectrum of early modern dwellings in Malta, ranging from palazzi and affluent residences to peasant dwellings, troglodyte houses, and hovels.

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre-Francois-Leonard Fontaine (1762-1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution.