This book presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2020, focusing on heritage - including architectural and graphic heritage as well as the graphics of heritage.
This book evaluates the current and future state of fascism studies, reflecting on the first hundred years of fascism and looking ahead to a new era in which fascism studies increasingly faces fresh questions concerning its relevance and the potential reappearance of fascism.
This book presents a selection of papers from the International Conference Geometrias'17, which was hosted by the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra from 16 to 18 June 2017.
This is a second edition of a textbook that provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and 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.
"e;Derham Groves has written this illuminating story of an exceptional but hitherto unsung Australian architect whose distinctive designs in China as well as his homeland may still be seen and enjoyed.
This book explores the meaning of 'influence', which has played a central role in the formation of the canon, or tradition, of Western political thought.
This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology.
This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife.
Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology.
This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean.
During the Progressive Era, a time when the field of design was dominated almost entirely by men, a largely forgotten activist and teacher named Louise Brigham became a pioneer of sustainable furniture design.
This book provides an overview of the institutional and intellectual development of sociology in Brazil from the early 1900s to the present day; through military coups, dictatorships and democracies.
This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro's 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic treatment of science and technology whose influence extended far beyond its day.
Ce printemps, le magazine Continuité propose un dossier thématique sur le patrimoine médical et explore certains bâtiments liés aux soins de santé, mais aussi des lieux de mémoire et des collections d’intérêt du domaine.
Intensification des sécheresses, fonte des glaciers, multiplication des inondations et des phénomènes météo extrêmes, érosion des berges, les dérèglements climatiques font peser diverses menaces sur le patrimoine mondial, que l’on pense à la statue de la Liberté, Stonehenge ou encore Venise.
Manifeste sur le postmodernisme architectural américain
La publication par les architectes américains Robert Venturi et Denise Scott Brown de Learning from Las Vegas, d’abord sous forme d’articles puis de livre, a entrainé à partir de 1968 une controverse sans équivalent dans l’histoire moderne de l’architecture.
Le présent ouvrage retrace l’évolution de l’architecture et de l’environnement urbain montréalais, des premières visites du Sieur de Champlain, de ce qui est devenu un peu plus tard la place Royale, jusqu’à la métropole postmoderne d’aujourd’hui.
Dans la rencontre entre l’architecture contemporaine et le patrimoine bâti, l’actualisation en tant que phénomène culturel se propose comme solution à la polarité conservation-création.
By situating the church architecture within the cultural dynamic of Montreal, the author closes a critical gap in our understanding of those decades of the British Colonial Period (1760-1860) when church buildings and their parishioners overtly marked the urban scene.
Extrait : "L'origine des Quinze-Vingts est entourée d'une certaine obscurité due à la perte de leur charte de fondation, et il est nécessaire de dégager la question des légendes ou des hypothèses qu'a fait naître cette lacune.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der ägyptischen Pyramiden und entdecken Sie die verborgenen Geheimnisse hinter diesen monumentalen Bauwerken.
Extrait : "Allez, par un jour brumeux, lorsque la mer et le ciel se confondent à l'horizon gris, jusqu'à l'extrémité orientale de la presqu'île du Croisie, terre salée et pauvre qui semble un bout du monde, tant elle avance dans l'Océan sa langue étroite et basse : Là, une simple pierre, de proportions modestes, s'élève sur un petit tertre au-dessus du granit pourpré battu des flots.
This volume is devoted to the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople, and includes two specially written pieces, as well as up-dates to the studies reprinted.
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.
Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple Indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice.
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist postwar council housing, stuccoed Italianate terraces, a Bauhaus-inspired library.
Over the course of their history, the Navajo (Dine) have constructed many types of architecture, but during the 20th century, one building emerged to become a powerful and inspiring symbol of tribal culture.
Symbol of Divine Light surveys the history of the mosque lamp, describing the numerous variants made in different historical periods and containing more than 200 stunning color and b/w illustrations.
This newly updated and revised second edition of A Story in Stones explores the relationship between Portugal and Ethiopia during the XVI and XVII centuries from the unique perspective of stonework.
