History of architecture

It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant's practical philosophy was forma-listic, focusing almost exclusively on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason.

This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years.

This book develops a new Wittgenstein interpretation called Wittgenstein's Metametaphysics.

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L.

This book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual.

Es werden Grundsatzfragen des Handelns im Alltag von Bauingenieuren insbesondere im Hinblick auf den derzeitigen Stellenwert und die Wahrnehmung moralischer Verantwortung erörtert.

This book provides a chronological record of the development of Chinese thoughts on public finance over its 4,000 years of history, ranging from the Xia Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization.

This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens, cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time.

This book analyzes a large number of typical tulou buildings and compact communities in detail, and painstakingly studies the way of life practiced in these communities, their defense systems, building techniques, spatial features, antithetical couplets culture, and historical origins.

El presente trabajo intenta explicitar a partir de cada uno de sus artículos la intima relación existente entre la producción de indumentaria y los acontecimientos políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales que atraviesan cada período estudiado.

Modernists believed that "e;form follows function.

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.

Why do we love and hate airports at the same time?

This book proposes and systematically discusses four trends of thoughts in contemporary Chinese urban design.

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

This book presents a study into the art of Jiangnan classical garden.

This book addresses the effects of the environment on Saint Petersburg's cultural heritage.

El libro que se presenta al lector, no pretende contemplar la historia de Bogotá en su totalidad, simplemente se contenta con presentar algunas pinceladas sobre el largo recorrido de la ciudad a través de 450 años, deteniéndose en algunos pocos edificios, ciertas manzanas y unas pocas instituciones, sin pretender haber agotado el tema en ninguno de los apuntes que conforman esta recapitulación, conformada por diversos trabajos realizados por el autor en el doble ejercicio de su actividad profesional del Arquitecto Restaurador y de su indeclinable interés por la historia de la Arquitectura.

In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in detail.

Dahomey's Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin.

Dahomey's Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin.

The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities, and people's sense of identity and agency, and are reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban planning.

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse.

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse.

This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries.

This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us?

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us?

History of Interior Design, Second Edition, covers the history of architecture, interiors, and furniture globally, from ancient times through the late twentieth century.

Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American writer and lifelong advocate for the abolition of slavery.

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

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

En palabras de Lorenzo González Casas, el siglo XX «fue una era inédita de globalización de la arquitectura», en la que la idea de lo moderno se propagó por el mundo.

As a first year student the challenges of learning how to do architecture can be daunting.

The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011.

The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011.

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.

This book is an approachable guide for students and professionals to learn parametric modeling through the lens of architectonics, allowing readers to pair fundamental ideas about architecture with parametric thinking.

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architecture to understand and unleash potential means to open up creativity in the field.

The East End is an iconic area of London, from the transient street art of Banksy and Pablo Delgado to the exhibitions of Doreen Fletcher and Gilbert and George.

Prominently located on the Arx, the northern summit of the Capitoline hill, S.

Prominently located on the Arx, the northern summit of the Capitoline hill, S.

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.

Glasgow's thirteenth-century cathedral is the city's oldest building and one of Scotland's top tourist destinations.

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary?

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary?