History of architecture

Marcus van Reimersdahl untersucht den Vorgang der Bewertung von Architektur in Preisgerichten.

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?

Der gefeierte Bestseller über die Kühnheit und das Scheitern, über das Leben und die Kunst, nicht nur für Architekturfans.

The 1960s and 1970s saw a marked change in the approach to built heritage conservation.

Gustav Ludolf Martens (1818–1872) war einer der bedeutendsten neugotischen Architekten seiner Zeit.

"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.

Milan has played an important role in the Italian country since the Roman period.

Milan has played an important role in the Italian country since the Roman period.

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.

Vorwort oder vom "Schrecken der Tragwerklehre" Architektur zählt zu den Künsten.

Die Kölner Kirchen zwischen 1140 und 1240 gehören zu den architektonischen Meilensteinen ihrer Zeit in Europa.

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 presents 25 essays on the philosophy of design.

This book presents the first detailed mathematical analysis of the social, cognitive and experiential properties of Modernist domestic architecture.

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period.

The "e;active image"e; refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of "e;actions"e; that images perform.

This book clarifies the interrelationship between optics, vision and perspective before the Classical Age, examining binocularity in particular.

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.

Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated.

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 assembles, identifies and highlights the most recent developments in Rehabilitation and retrofitting of historical and heritage structures.

This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions.

This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present.

This volume explores the mathematical character of architectural practice in diverse pre- and early modern contexts.

The book is inspired by the first seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano.

The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany.

Klaus von Beyme is a distinguished German political scientist and recipient of the Mattei Dogan Award of Political Science (2012).

Early applications of Navier's beam theory to the rational design of structures are documented in the Annales of the French Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees and refer to the design of three wooden bridges built in France in the 1840's.

When Seon (Zen) Buddhism was first introduced to Korea around Korea's late Silla and early Goryeo eras, the function of the "e;beopdang"e; (Dharma hall) was transfused to the lecture hall found in ancient Buddhist temples, establishing a pivotal area within the temple compound called the "e;upper monastic area.