This interdisciplinary collection of case studies rethinks corporate patronage in the United States and reveals the central role corporations have played in shaping American culture.
This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning.
What kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20th century?
Tempel sind mehr als nur steinerne Monumente – sie sind Ausdruck einer tieferen Ordnung, die Raum, Symbolik und kosmische Energie miteinander verbindet.
Entre 1880 y la primera mitad del siglo XX, la dinámica y optimista ciudad de Buenos Aires, fue el escenario que desarrolló el conjunto arquitectónico de mejor empaque y calidad de Latinoamérica.
Growing up in tandem and maturing as urban democracies during the 19th and 20th centuries, London and New York have both influenced the shape and form of cities around the world.
Der Speyerer Dom ist mehr als ein herausragendes Bauwerk der Romanik – er ist ein Zeugnis europäischer Geschichte, eine architektonische Meisterleistung und ein Symbol für Macht, Glaube und kulturelles Erbe.
This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm.
El presente libro es una reelaboracion de la tesis doctoral de Ricardo Blanco, el cual recorre las etapas de la practica del Diseno Industrial en Argentina en el siglo XX con obras y su analisis, sus comparaciones con el diseno internacional y culmina con una propuesta metodologica para el diseno de productos con rasgos identitarios.
The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book investigates the art and architecture scene in Vienna to ask how this can inform our broader understanding of architectural Postmodernism.
The Democratic Courthouse examines how changing understandings of the relationship between government and the governed came to be reflected in the buildings designed to house the modern legal system from the 1970s to the present day in England and Wales.
This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Northern France.
Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specificity, cultural conquest, and cultural hybridisation over millennia.
In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in scale and grandeur, and which became destinations on the Grand Tour.
Con este libro el lector podrá tener una idea clara y sencilla de lo que sucede en los sistemas neuromuscular y cardiorrespiratorio durante el ejercicio físico.
Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.
This extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of "e;development"e; after World War II.
***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins - those philosophical ideas that lay behind modernism and its aftermath.
From one of the world's top experts on the economics of skyscrapersa ';fascinating' (Daily Mail, London) and ';informative' (Publishers Weekly) account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe.
This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural design process with relevant parametric approaches.
The digital humanities intensify the cooperation between the science disciplines in terms of working tools, working methods, and working organization, and in terms of formulating research strategies and scientific objectives.
Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture.
Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architecture as a medium to arouse or conceal emotions, to build consensus through shared values, or to reconnect the urban community to its alleged ancestry.
Authored by two architects, Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation: Thoughts, Dreams and Places tells a story of buildings that were built in Poland between 1980 and 2020, as architecture developed in the Western world and Japan.
As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a masterwork of Thomas Jefferson, the "e;Academical Village"e; at the heart of the University of Virginia has long attracted the attention of visitors and scholars alike.
This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it was described as a "e;second Sun"e;.
