History of architecture

Wladimiro Acosta es una personalidad aparentemente sencilla, pero de una apasionante complejidad que se disfruta al profundizar el conocimiento de sus textos y obras.

Ethical Design Intelligence: The Virtuous Designer explores the deep significance of philosophy and ethics to the practice of design.

The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire.

Born in Florence in 1910, Pietro Porcinai grew up on the classic grounds of the Villa Gamberaia in Settignano where his father served as head gardener.

This book explores the core concept of Chinese ancient architecture from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory charged spatial experiences.

Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and designing, to give you an original view on our postmodern era and architectural culture.

This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture.

With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities.

The Digital Bespoke?

The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and a source of inspiration for Western designers.

The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century.

This book compiles a curated selection of texts authored by architects and scholars hailing from Asia, Europe, and North America.

This book proposes new ways of looking at the built environment in archaeology, specifically through postcolonial perspectives.

Explores the possible dialogues between textual and archaeological sources in studying housing in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Dan Cruickshank's personal, passionate and learned journey into the very awe-inspiring architectural icons which have transformed culture, society, industry and landscapes throughout the world - bridges.

Francesco Borromini was one of the most notable architects of the 17th century, and though he fell into disfavor by the end of the following century, today he is classified as one of the most innovative architects in history.

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

Städtische Orte und Räume sind so verschieden wie die Wahrnehmung ihrer Differenz.

This is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical architecture in different regions of the world.

Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s.

This book connects Frank Lloyd Wright's organic theory with his pursuit of beauty, presenting a path for the recovery of beauty in architecture.

Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.

Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment.

A bold and brilliant new treatment of blackness in ancient Greek literature and visual culture as well as modern reception.

CUADERNO URBANO es una publicación científica con arbitraje internacional dirigida a la difusión de artículos y ensayos que se ocupan desde las disciplinas científicas a la cuestión urbana -en el sentido más amplio del término-, combinando trabajos de caracteres empíricos, teóricos y ensayísticos que den cuenta de problemáticas locales, regionales y universales.

In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens.

From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture.

The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed cottage and the architectural discourse that articulated it.

This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated.

Die Digitalisierung hat den Diskurs der Architektur verandert: Dieser ist mittlerweile von einer Fulle neuer Begriffe bestimmt, die bislang entweder keine oder doch andere Bedeutungen im Kontext der Architekturtheorie und des architektonischen Entwurfs hatten.

Glasgow's thirteenth-century cathedral is the city's oldest building and one of Scotland's top tourist destinations.

Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor.

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic.

Different Engines investigates the emergence of technologies in Latin America to create images, sounds, video games, and physical interactions.

Dahomey's Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin.

This book presents the preservation principles and the current environmental challenges relating to monitoring heritage sites and buildings under the effects of climate change.

The Classical Orders of Architecture elaborates on the classical orders of architecture, including Classicism, Tuscan orders, Doric orders, Ionic orders, and Corinthian orders.

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today's world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping - and in return being shaped by - the built environment.

A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment.

The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (14041472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissancea fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt's mythologizing of Alberti as a Renaissance or Universal Man.

It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined.

Interdisciplinary study of the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome.

In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the discipline.

Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality.