History of architecture

Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, in which he insisted that 'there is nothing that is not social and historical - indeed, that everything is "e;in the last analysis"e; political'.

Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, in which he insisted that 'there is nothing that is not social and historical - indeed, that everything is "e;in the last analysis"e; political'.

In many different parts of the world modern furniture elements have served as material expressions of power in the post-war era.

In many different parts of the world modern furniture elements have served as material expressions of power in the post-war era.

Even though the idea of altering an existing building is presently a well established practice within the context of adaptive reuse, when the building in question is a 'mnemonic building', of recognized heritage value, alterations are viewed with suspicion, even when change is a recognized necessity.

Even though the idea of altering an existing building is presently a well established practice within the context of adaptive reuse, when the building in question is a 'mnemonic building', of recognized heritage value, alterations are viewed with suspicion, even when change is a recognized necessity.

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged.

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged.

**Selected in the top eight short-list for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019**Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature.

**Selected in the top eight short-list for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019**Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature.

Towards Tate Modern provides a new interdisciplinary account of Tate's shifting position as a national arts institution.

Towards Tate Modern provides a new interdisciplinary account of Tate's shifting position as a national arts institution.

Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures.

Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures.

Combining transgender studies with the 'neomodernist' architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf) whose work anticipates that of transgender studies, this book challenges the implicit 'spatial models' of popular narratives of transgender - interiority, ownership, sovereignty, structure, stability, and domesticity - to advance a novel theorization of transgender as a matter of exteriority, groundlessness, ornamentation, and movement.

Combining transgender studies with the 'neomodernist' architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf) whose work anticipates that of transgender studies, this book challenges the implicit 'spatial models' of popular narratives of transgender - interiority, ownership, sovereignty, structure, stability, and domesticity - to advance a novel theorization of transgender as a matter of exteriority, groundlessness, ornamentation, and movement.

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation of historic environments.

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation of historic environments.

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different 'technologies of sight' - understood to include orthographic projection, perspective drawing, telescopic devices, photography, film and computer visualization, amongst others.

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different 'technologies of sight' - understood to include orthographic projection, perspective drawing, telescopic devices, photography, film and computer visualization, amongst others.

This book challenges conventional assumptions about the afterlife of Magna Carta and tells a new story.

This book investigates Hegel''s historical conception of philosophy: as built upon and reviving prior views, and as speaking to its historical context.

Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.

This book demonstrates how the modern relationship between leaders and followers in America grew out of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century charismatic social movements.

Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.

This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.

This book shows how depictions of etymology were used by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and historians to portray Britain''s past.

A critical evaluation of how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing ''democratic'' disorders associated with the stage.

This volume critically examines the work of three eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Carnap, Quine, and Putnam, engaging with and developing their answers to key methodological questions.

This book examines how trust relates to the main political concepts - sovereignty, reason of state, and natural law - of seventeenth-century discourse.

This book explores the explosive social and political implications of Erasmus'' philological work on the Greek New Testament.

This study explores the rise and nature of modernist approaches to economics, sociology, international relations, administration, language, history and anthropology.

This is the first comprehensive intellectual history of political realism and international relations theory.

This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire.

This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.

An examination of the concept of freedom in nineteenth-century Arabic political thought, and how it relates to other modern ideologies.

This book explains how Baroque antiquarians distorted images of Roman monuments and sacrificed archaeological truth to accommodate popes and princes.

This book explains how Baroque antiquarians distorted images of Roman monuments and sacrificed archaeological truth to accommodate popes and princes.

This book shows how absolute naturalism, deciphering nature without reference to God, emerged from the inheritance, dynamics and debates of orthodox culture.

A fundamental overhaul of modern Arab intellectual history, reassessing cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship.

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

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

A comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years.

Discusses the importance of intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history.

A fresh look at Austrian economists and the dynamic intellectual and political context in which they lived and worked.

This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval art.

This book explores shame as a politically charged idea that is disavowed, invoked, and negotiated in moments of democratic struggle.

Radically reconceives Friedrich Nietzsche''s early life, offering an alternative approach and new insights into the early development of Nietzsche''s philosophy.

This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.

This book explores the controversial Anglo-American struggle over empire and economic globalization in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.