History of architecture

In this richly illustrated book with many practical examples, Bjorn Sandaker provides readers with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture.

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.

What is the place of architecture in the history of art?

The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture, from one of the most acclaimed critics at work todayModernism is now a century old, and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments.

This timely book aims to address a significant challenge in contemporary design and architecture, i.

A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern designAlloys looks at a unique period of synergy and exchange in the postwar United States, when sculpture profoundly shaped architecture, and vice versa.

A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinkingThe vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning.

Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city.

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki.

Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all technical terms along the way.

As elite communities in medieval societies the Military Orders were driven by the ambition to develop built environments that fulfilled monastic needs as well as military requirements and, in addition, residential and representational purposes.

Towns are complicated places.

This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome.

Para cumplir con los requisitos que la actualidad economica y social exige, tanto en el diseno industrial de productos como en su produccion, es necesario contar con metodos que consideren conceptos ergonomicos, que faciliten el tratamiento en forma integral de los distintos factores que intervienen en las creaciones amigables de la interface producto-usuario, la configuracion de los sistemas socio-productivos, las limitaciones tecnologicas, el medio ambiente, la prevencion de la salud, el mantenimiento, la gestion del conocimiento, la calidad y la rentabilidad del sistema socioeconomico.

This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life.

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings.

The first critical study of the ubiquitous and mundane Los Angeles dingbat apartment, featuring critical essays, photography, and international competition winners re-envisioning the dingbat for the 21st century.

Architecture, Media and Memory examines the wide range of urban sites impacted by September 11 and its aftermath – from the spontaneous memorials that emerged in Union Square in the hours after the attacks, to the reconstruction at Ground Zero, to vast ongoing landscape urbanism projects beyond.

This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act.

Appropriated Interiors uncovers the ways interiors participate explicitly and implicitly in embedded cultural and societal values and explores timely emergent scholarship in the fields of interior design history, theory, and practice.

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters-these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds.

Treats the Pantheon from the unique perspective of its construction history, survival, and reception through history.

This book engages readers in an enlightening exploration of cities' identities, sustainability, and urban development.

At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth among whites and the largest number of enslaved residents.

This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings ?

The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between 'tradition' and 'modernity' - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited the narrative applied to this architecture.

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints.

This book on Roman construction explains why and how Roman builders employed a set of unusual vaulting techniques.

Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence.

This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959.

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even threatened.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLVIN PRIZE 2021!

A richly illustrated look at the lives and collaborations of two unsung giants of American landscape and urban designGilmore D.

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as "e;contemporism"e; through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements).

How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design in both student and professional examples.

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel.

Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey studies the unfolding of modern architecture in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s.

Mughal Architecture was a fully developed style and a perfect discipline, as none was prior to it, medieval India.

Materialitat und Stofflichkeit von Gebauden und Konstruktionen sind ein wichtiger Aspekt des architektonischen Entwerfens.

This book explores how the comparative analysis of visual cultural artefacts, from objects to architecture and fiction films, can contribute to our understanding of everyday life in homes and cities around the globe.

This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243.

Focusing on the Mediterranean area where water management is crucial, this pioneering study is the first to show how the supply, distribution, and drainage of water contributed to the urbanization of ancient cities.

Towns are complicated places.

In The City as Subject, Carolyn S.