Patricia Merkel stellt in dieser Studie erstmals das Schaffen des Architekten Ernst Neufert (1900–1986) detailliert und im architekturhistorischen Kontext vor.
Somaiyeh Falahat investigates the spatial and morphological logic of pre-modern Middle Eastern and North African cities, so-called "e;Islamic cities"e;.
Die Studie untersucht eine im Rahmen des Wiener Stadterneuerungsprogramms aufzuwertende Erdgeschosszone der gründerzeitlichen Stadt, anhand aktueller städtebaulicher Sanierungsvorhaben in Wien aber auch in Berlin und Leipzig: Welche Parameter und Maßnahmen stehen bei der nachhaltigen Umstrukturierung eines gründerzeitlichen Viertels mit seinen Straßenräumen, Höfen und sonstigen offenen Flächen im Vordergrund?
As the need for a circular construction industry becomes progressively more apparent, building practitioners are increasingly turning to salvaged building components to construct new projects.
"Imhotep: Der Meisterarchitekt des Pharaonenreichs"Wie ein Mann die Grundsteine der ägyptischen Zivilisation legteVon Paul DuboisIm Schatten der mächtigen Pyramiden Ägyptens ragt eine Gestalt heraus, deren Genie und Visionen die Grundpfeiler einer ganzen Zivilisation formten: Imhotep, der erste Architekt, Arzt und Wissenschaftler der dokumentierten Geschichte.
Als 1948 die Trümmerlandschaften des Krieges den Traumlandschaften von der kommunistischen Zukunftsgesellschaft wichen, realisierte die Moskauer Führung mit den "Stalinschen Großbauten des Kommunismus" ein ehrgeiziges Erschließungsprogramm.
Nach der Gründung der Volksrepublik China sollte das ganze Land aus einem "rückständigen Agrarland" in ein fortschrittliches, industrialisiertes Neues China verwandelt werden.
This book explores the transformation of market spaces in Portuguese cities during the intensification of trade driven by increasing profits from overseas exchanges, and how architectural structures and urban planning were directly impacted by these changes to accommodate the new economic dynamics.
This anthology honors Lawrence Nees' expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Delaware.
This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening.
For a long time, resource conservationists have viewed environmental conservation as synonymous with wilderness and wildlife resources only, oblivious to the contributions made by cultural and heritage resources.
This book provides the first complete, easy to read, up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic worlds.
This book consists of chapters that focus specifically on single figures that worked on Descriptive Geometry and also in Mechanisms Sciences and contain biographical notes, a survey of their work and their achievements, together with a modern interpretation of their legacy.
This book presents a selection of the best papers from the HEaRT 2013 conference, held in Cosenza, Italy, which provided a valuable forum for engineers and architects, researchers and educators to exchange views and findings concerning the technological history, construction features and seismic behavior of historical timber-framed walls in the Mediterranean countries.
This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present.
