History of architecture

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis and design in architecture.

This book presents a review of the work of the architect Michael Balz, pioneer of concrete-shell architecture.

This book reviews Dante Bini's inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems.

Architects care.

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll-from his nonsense fiction, to his work on logic and geometry, including his two short pamphlets on architecture.

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll-from his nonsense fiction, to his work on logic and geometry, including his two short pamphlets on architecture.

Architects care.

This book reviews Dante Bini's inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems.

Este libro, fruto de un trabajo de documentación de la vida y obra del doctor arquitecto Pelayo Llarena Murua, quien fue uno de los pioneros de la arquitectura moderna guatemalteca y del urbanismo, presenta la digitalización del material gráfico inédito (en su gran mayoría) de su archivo personal.

Con el propósito de brindar a los estudiantes y al lector interesado conocimientos sobre la venturosa época de Hispanoamérica, se ofrece un conjunto de escritos con apertura a una visión distinta de los diversos temas expuestos.

Este libro analiza las obras del Movimiento Moderno acentuando la búsqueda de la transparencia como un hecho que las une, a través de la expresión de la fachada de la estructura, en forma de retículo, analizando sus principios, transformaciones y su vigencia en distintos contextos, en especial el de Chile.

En 1966 Hélio Oiticica construyó una estructura penetrable con el título "Pureza es un mito" con el fin de, para criticar la obsesión de las artes y principalmente de la historia del arte con la elección de algunos objetos como expresión pura de un estilo, mientras que todos los demás serían por exclusión impuros.

En el umbral de la segunda década del siglo XXI, un grupo de investigadores se propuso elaborar el plano de la ciudad de Santiago tal como era en 1910.

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived.

This book presents a review of the work of the architect Michael Balz, pioneer of concrete-shell architecture.

Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil investigates a selection of works by Italian artists and architects, and an art critic and dealer, who immigrated to Brazil after World War II, and were involved in the first activities and opportunities created by the Sao Paulo Museum of Art (MASP).

In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies embodied in the works of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

With forewords by Mario Carpo, Jenny Sabin, and Branko Kolarevic.

This book offers new perspectives on the early and formative years of the German-Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas, through innovative studies of his German and Hebrew work in pre-war Germany and Palestine.

The typical town springs up around a natural resource-a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor-or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town.

Is all knowledge the product of thought?

In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today.

Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi-the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex-tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.

In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created.

A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo.

Scholars have long stressed the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese modernism.

An important new look at Rome's earliest buildings and their context within the broader tradition of Mediterranean culture This groundbreaking study traces the development of Roman architecture and its sculpture from the earliest days to the middle of the 5th century BCE.

Anthony Fontenot's staggeringly ambitious book uncovers the surprisingly libertarian heart of the most influential British and American architectural and urbanist discourses of the postwar period, expressed as a critique of central design and a support of spontaneous order.

A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors "e;Rybczynski's expansive account traces the influence of social, technological, and economic shifts on architecture across centuries.

How Berlin captivated Hitler's imagination, and how he sought to redesign the city to align with his obsessions and ambitions From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany's great capital city.

Shaker buildings have long been admired for their simplicity of design and sturdy craftsmanship, with form always following function.

Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats (riverfront fortress-palaces).

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing.

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.

Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore the traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

Architecture in Northern Ghana: A Study of Forms and Functions by Labelle Prussin offers a pioneering exploration into the relationship between architecture, culture, and the environment in Northern Ghana.

Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments, written by by leading theorists and empirical researchers offers an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural spectrum of viewpoints on the study of the home concept.

Auténticas recetas italianas del famoso platillo de Gaeta, Italia.

An entertaining, abundantly illustrated history of a Chicago landmark, inspired by Daniel Burnham and a feat of engineering, now a grand locale for public recreation.

This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no single, hegemonic power dominating the area.

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

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War.

It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines.

The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999.

Sure, a majority of Europe's most historic events centered on castles.