History of architecture

This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the 'Christian Oriental' fringes of Europe, especially Armenia.

During the fascist years in Italy, architecture and politics enjoyed a close alliance.

In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences.

Nurbanu (1525-1583) is one of the most prominent yet least studied royal women of the Ottoman dynasty.

This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between passive architectural systems and activism.

¿Cómo brindarle al cliente una experiencia de compra práctica, cómoda y divertida?

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith.

In the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible, equitable, sustainable, resilient, and forward-looking.

Ce livre raconte l'histoire des habitants de Québec à travers l'architecture de certaines de ses plus belles demeures.

There is a genuine resurgence of interest in this period of architecture.

The Heart of the City concept, which was introduced at CIAM 8 in 1951, has played an important role in architectural and urban debates.

Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916-85) was one of Britain's significant emigre architects and designers.

Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design analyses the ways in which architects have presented their designs for clients and the public, both historically and contemporarily.

Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a building is 'complete' once construction has finished.

Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed of pentelic marble, to Justinian's Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Renaissance and Baroque basilica of St.

This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality.

This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration.

El desarrollo sostenible nos lleva a la busqueda del uso racional del agua, a la reutilizacion de las aguas grises, la recuperacion de las aguas de lluvias y recuperacion de los gases de los desagues cloacales; y particularmente que las instalaciones sanitarias brinden el confort buscado sin producir contaminacion ambiental.

Decoding Luigi Moretti's Architettura Parametrica presents an unprecedented critical discussion of one of the earliest theoretical and practical explorations into the integration of scientific thought, mathematical models, and digital tools in architectural design.

Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product.

In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants.

Collins explains what Revivalism, Rationalism, Eclecticism, and Functionalism meant to those who practised them, examining the impact that social forces and the other arts and sciences had on architectural styles while recognizing the tectonic continuities that underlie the seeming ruptures between pre-modern, modern, and post-modern approaches to design.

The first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "e;founding father"e; of architectural history.

Explores Auschwitz's construction, revealing architectural plans and documents that expose the SS's role in orchestrating genocide.

A range of current approaches to architecture are neglected in our contemporary writings on design philosophies.

At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture's relationship to industry.

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War.

A History of Design Institutes in China examines the intricate relationship between design institutes, the state, and, in later periods, the market economy through a carefully situated discussion of significant theoretical and historical issues including socialist utopia, collective and individual design, structural transformation, and architectural exportation, amongst others.

This book applies anthropological concepts of social structure and evolutionary theory to Ancient Greece.

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture.

Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture's entanglement with contemporary image culture.

By linking building theory to the emancipatory project of critique advanced by radical thinkers in our time, this work investigates the key conceptual and historical elements that culminate in an emancipatory theory of building entitled: 'Toward a philosophy of shelter'.

Different concepts of the machine are pursued in essays on Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Alfred Jarry's pataphysical machines, and cosmological and political orders in sixteenth-century utopias.

The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary discourse.

An invaluable resource for readers interested in architecture and design that demonstrates how the construction, form, and function of key structures in the 19th-century influenced American social, political, economic, and intellectual life.

A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveriesThis beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants.

There is scarcely a New England town which does not contain houses, church spires, or ornamental interior details derived from the Late Colonial architectural designs of Asher Benjamin (1773–1845).

In 1277, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd, met with Edward I of England in Aberconwy to finalise a treaty that would change the fate of both nations.

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century Greece.

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together.

This Must Be The Place is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, and its development into a distinctive genre of building design.

Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older women belies their significance within early modern Italy.

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.

Originally published in 1952 but enlarged and revised in 1969, this dictionary became a standard authoritative work of reference.

Sehrengiz is an Ottoman genre of poetry written in honor of various cities and provincial towns of the Ottoman Empire from the early sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century.

Combines multiple theoretical perspectives and diverse media to examine the relation between music and memory in ancient Greece and Rome.

This book deals with the period when iron became the dominant 'high-technology' material, increasingly taking over from timber and masonry.

This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, developed over more than three decades.