History of architecture

In ihrem zweibändigen Werk inklusive eines digitalen Online-Anhangs erarbeitet Nataliya Demir-Karbouskaya eine bauliche Aufstellung und kunsthistorische Zusammenfassung der Bauten der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing chronicles the emergence of a low-cost, low-rise housing architecture that conforms to M.

Traditional histories of medieval art and architecture often privilege the moment of a work's creation, yet surviving works designated as "e;medieval"e; have long and expansive lives.

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived.

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past.

Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways.

Architecture, which can be understood in its most basic sense as a form of enclosure created with an aesthetic intent, first made its appearance in the Prehistoric Age.

This is the first comparative study of Roman architecture on the Iberian peninsula, covering six centuries from the arrival of the Romans in the third century B.

The production of this book stems from two of the editors' longstanding research interests: the representation of architecture in print media, and the complex identity of the second phase of modernism in architecture given the role it played in postwar reconstruction in Europe.

Mediated Messages presents a collection of original writing exploring the role played by the media in the development of postmodern architecture in the 1970s and 80s.

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design.

This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle.

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past.

After the Fall explores the many traces of fascism that can be found in the architecture and urban form of Rome from its buildings, monuments and piazze, to its street names and graffiti.

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.

Reconsidering the status and meaning of Bauhaus objects in relation to the multiple re-tellings of the school's history, this volume positions art objects of the Bauhaus within the theoretical, artistic, historical, and cultural concerns in which they were produced and received.

The reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.

Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome.

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.

Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.

Designing Schools explores the close connections between the design of school buildings and educational practices throughout the twentieth century to today.

This book provides a survey of the architecture and urbanism of Provence during the Roman era.

This volume fluctuates between conceptualizations of movement; either movements that buildings in the medieval Mediterranean facilitated, or the movements of the users and audiences of architecture.

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even threatened.

Over the past few decades, Japan has faced severe earthquake disasters, an increasing aging population, declining birth rates, and widening social disparities.

Segunda edición, bilingüe (español – inglés) y con dibujos del autor, de esta esmerada obra fruto de una sostenida inquietud de Roque Manuel Gómez por el análisis y estudio de los Valles Calchaquíes y su arquitectura, dada su especial particularidad y su extraordinaria riqueza patrimonial.

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724-1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy.

For Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux (1801-1871), a radical French architect and chair of perspective at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the study and composition of ornament were essential pursuits.

The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British imperial and Indian historiography.

Para cumplir con los requisitos que la actualidad economica y social exige, tanto en el diseno industrial de productos como en su produccion, es necesario contar con metodos que consideren conceptos ergonomicos, que faciliten el tratamiento en forma integral de los distintos factores que intervienen en las creaciones amigables de la interface producto-usuario, la configuracion de los sistemas socio-productivos, las limitaciones tecnologicas, el medio ambiente, la prevencion de la salud, el mantenimiento, la gestion del conocimiento, la calidad y la rentabilidad del sistema socioeconomico.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender reframes the discussion of modernity, space and gender by examining how "e;modernity"e; has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, how this definition has been expressed spatially and architecturally, and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives.

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.

Originally published in 1957, Exploring Castles examines the 'classic' castle story.

The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe.

Confabulation is a drawing together through storytelling.

This title was originally published in 1996.

This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations.

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War.

This book investigates how international air terminals organize passenger movement and generate spending.

This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India.

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints.

Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton-between those who design, and those who build.