History of architecture

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.

This book traces and explores the evolution of taste from a design perspective: what it is, how it works, and what it does.

The definitive biography Roy StrongThe remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British architectural history.

In hope, Christian faith reconfigures the shape of what is familiar in order to pattern the contours of God's promised future.

San Francisco is a city designed for artists and wanderers.

Few architectural styles evoke so strong a sense of place as Pueblo architecture.

Using monuments and ruins by way of illustration, this fascinating book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic importance of Greek classical iconography for the Western world.

This book seeks to revise and revive architectural theory through psychoanalysis as well as to apply psychoanalytic theory to architecture.

In the mid-1920s a physiologist, a glass chemist, and a zoo embarked on a project which promised to turn buildings into medical instruments.

Confronter les codes et les écoles artistiques entre la France et l'Italie en matière d'urbanisme

Dans cet ouvrage initialement publié en 1984 et rapidement devenu introuvable, Jean-Louis Cohen analyse un moment-clé pour la théorie et la pratique de l’architecture contemporaine, marqué par les échanges intenses des années 1970 entre l’Italie et la France.

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us?

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Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922–1943 chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule.

Die Protagonisten des Buches Camillo Sitte, Otto Wagner, Josef Maria Olbrich, Joseph August Lux, Oskar Strnad und Felix Augenfeld schufen von den späten 1880er Jahren bis 1938 über die Zäsur des Weltkriegs hinaus eine moderne und ortspezifische Architektur.

This book investigates the history of Arabian suqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present.

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line.

Basics Stadtanalyse erweitert den Themenblock Stadtebau.

This history-by-theory and theory-by-history book helps its reader make sense of the chaotic multitude of world architecture through time.

This book explains and celebrates the richness of Englishchurches and cathedrals, which have a major place inmedieval architecture.

Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for public consumption both at home and abroad.

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

During the nineteenth century, cultural heritage became a dominant feature of the political ideology of the European states and of their colonies.

This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development.

Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond.

Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence.

The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural space; a centre of power, but also of life, love, anxiety, creation, and an enduring palimpsest of aspirations, desires, and ruptures.

What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are?

An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture history from Antiquity to Postmodernism.

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renowned art historian Alexei Lidov.

A pictorial and narrative tour of a historic landmark at the center of the university's original campusThe University of South Carolina was founded in 1801 on a modest parcel of land now called the Horseshoe.

The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century.

Each chapter of this volume provides a window into the vibrant world of Middle and Late Byzantium, offering new insights into the complexities of Byzantine ecclesiastical spaces.

The Barns of the Abbey of Beaulieu at Its Granges: Great Coxwell, Beaulieu-St.

This book demonstrates how powerfully triumphal monuments shaped Roman experience of military victory and, consequently, of Roman identity.

This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century.

***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***After World War II, a wave of Italian films emerged that depicted the life and hardships of characters left helpless after the conflict, bringing to the screen the struggles of a time of existential angst and uncertainty.

Plottegg ist einer der profiliertesten Avantgarde-Architekten Osterreichs.

The title of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal, "e;Architecture, Mathematics and Structure,"e; is deliberately ambiguous.

This edited volume considers the ways in which multiple stages, phases, or periods in an artistic or design process have served to arrive at the final artifact, with a focus on the meaning and use of the iteration.

Industrial archaeology is the study of early industrial buildings and machinery, particularly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising the built environment, and offers an approach to understanding and shaping the built environment that supports (and benefits) human, and organismic, spatial intelligence.

This unique book traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design.

Fur Studenten ist die Architekturfotografie ein wichtiges Mittel, sich mit gebauter Architektur auseinanderzusetzen, oder auch eigene Projekte zu dokumentieren.

Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective.

Studies in Hellenistic Architecture is a detailed analysis of the development of the major building-types of the Hellenistic age - the mid-fourth century B.

This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands.

Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries.