History of architecture

How do film and television makers around the world depict public housing?

Each architectural design is a new history.

Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control since the years following World War II until today.

Boredom as an impetus for architectural theory and practice Any theorist or practitioner of architecture must confront, and even be compelled by, boredom.

The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of his own work-a practice central to his careerMore than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959.

'It was like heaven!

Die Residenzstadt Dresden erlebte im 19.

Duluths majestic Glensheen Mansion, featuring thirty-nine ornate rooms and expansive landscaped grounds.

God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination.

Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy's veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance proportion, Baroque space, and Mannerist ambiguity.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the leading figures of twentieth-century architecture.

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy, France, and Britain.

Reconnects ancient buildings with the people who made them, with their surroundings, and with practices in other times and cultures.

Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular.

CUADERNO URBANO es una publicacion cientifica con arbitraje internacional dirigida a la difusion de articulos y ensayos que se ocupan desde las disciplinas cientificas a la cuestion urbana -en el sentido mas amplio del termino-, combinando trabajos de caracteres empiricos, teoricos y ensayisticos que den cuenta de problematicas locales, regionales y universales.

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c.

The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes.

At the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the new nation, just as the adoption of international style modernism in architecture was perceived as a way to escape the colonial past.

Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture.

This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.

During the New Kingdom (c.

Erstmals liegt mit diesem Buch ein Einblick in ein historisches Gebäude vor, dessen Originaleinrichtung nahezu vollständig erhalten ist.

Modern Playhouses is the first detailed study of the major programme of theatre-building which took place in Britain between the 1950s and the 1980s.

This title was originally published in 1976.

A GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE NOW FEATURING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND MORE SUPERB DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS D.

A twenty-first century renaissance is emerging in architecture.

Probes historical relationships between banks and religious beliefs, exploring urban geographies and architectural forms that reveal moral attitudes toward money during the early onset of capitalism.

Contemporary Japanese Architecture presents a clear and comprehensive overview of the historical and cultural framework that informs the work of all Japanese architects, as an introduction to an in-depth investigation of the challenges now occupying the contemporary designers who will be the leaders of the next generation.

A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years.

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultural, spiritual, and physical environments in diverse regions around the globe.

This book presents a case study of one of Latin America's most important and symbolic spaces, the Zocalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

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.

CUADERNO URBANO es una publicación científica con arbitraje internacional dirigida a la difusión de artículos y ensayos que se ocupan desde las disciplinas científicas a la cuestión urbana -en el sentido más amplio del término-, combinando trabajos de caracteres empíricos, teóricos y ensayísticos que den cuenta de problemáticas locales, regionales y universales.

The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran explores the evolution of architectural pedagogy during two significant socio-political upheavals in Iran: The White Revolution (1963) and the Islamic Revolution (1979).

Since the first edition of this book, geometrical methods in the theory of ordinary differential equations have become very popular and some progress has been made partly with the help of computers.

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.

This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures - academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and postcolonial - and by interviews and analysis of 13 key Mexican architects.

Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year 2000.

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 sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and the built environment.

City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city.

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.

Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906-1973).

The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale.

Why and how was the term 'built environment' first introduced?

Originally published in 1956, this book provides a non-technical analysis of contemporary building by on the of the world's greatest architects.