History of architecture

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.

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.

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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?

"Un momento arquitectónico en Córdoba" intenta atender a ciertas características de las dimensiones sociológica, disciplinar y estilística de la arquitectura en un momento determinado (1916- 1926).

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research.

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.

This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts.

El cultivo de la ciencia entre los siglos XVII y XIX se dio a los dos lados del Atlántico, con lo que se creó un intercambio de espacios culturales.

The short lived Tulip Era breathed a new life into Ottoman social life and novel elements of art, architecture and new spaces of leisure and entertainment that both men and women could participate and enjoy emerged during the early 18th century.

As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius's activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founder's contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934 and 1937.

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.

Between 1926 and 1928, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein designed a house for his sister in Vienna (the Kundmanngasse).

In the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new social technology of intelligence testing.

The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire.

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

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

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research.

Through the use of images, diagrams, and detailed descriptions, this book enables readers to appreciate how the construction, design, and function of famous structures inform our understanding of societies of the past.

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.

The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housingWhile the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities.

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.

Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius.

An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildingsWhat do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common?

Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era.

"e;A stimulating volume for readers interested in lost cultures or climate change's role in thepast and present.

Tomemos, pues, cierta distancia, entrecerremos los ojos en busca de una visión algo borrosa, y entonces gozaremos de excelentes cuadros impresionistas de aquella Lima con sus calles y portales poblados de osados aventureros, mano de obra desocupada a la espera de la oportunidad soñada que los hará medrar, del ambiente en la recién fundada Santa Cruz de la Sierra, en la legendaria Villa Rica de Potosí, en Asunción o en las arduas marchas entre una y otra, el cuadro recargado de tintas tenebrosas de los retorcidos ardides de los que se valió el pérfido obispo de la Torre para prender al gobernador Cáceres en plena iglesia y tantos otros cuadros que el lector descubrirá por su cuenta, enhebrados en sabrosos documentos de la época, que nos harán revivir cada uno de esos momentos, con sus convincentes colores individuales.

Los documentos aquí reunidos encaran diversos aspectos de la transformación territorial en la RMBA y en ellos existe coincidencia de opinión respecto a que, los modos tradicionales de regulación territorial, no respondieron a las complejas y dinámicas transformaciones socioeconómicas.

Un 10 de abril de 1981 comenzaron a publicarse estas críticas, primero fueron planteos donde la ciudad era mostrada en sus sectores diferenciados, luego apareció el edificio como entidad juzgada.

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.

China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era.

Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism.

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabon-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken place over the last five centuries, transforming the site from a small Caribbean enclave to a sprawling modern capital.

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research.

GNSS can detect the seismic atmospheric-ionospheric variations, which can be used to investigate the seismo-atmospheric disturbance characteristics and provide insights on the earthquake.

Uniting twelve original studies by scholars of early modern history, literature, and the arts, this collection is the first that foregrounds the dialectical quality of early modern Orientalism by taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective.