History of architecture

The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social change.

In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities.

The city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world, capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe.

Bomarzo, Carnac, Chartres, Lago Ness, Stonehenge, Isla de Pascua, Nazca, Gizeh, Ayers Rock.

The Bauhaus Ideal is both a picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on interior design-not just on architecture, but also on furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of domestic arts.

The Bauhaus Ideal is both a picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on interior design-not just on architecture, but also on furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of domestic arts.

A beautifully illustrated guide to the world of Victorian stained glass and its manufacturers and designers.

The rapid westward expansion of the United States in the early twentieth century set the stage for a new industry: mail-order homes.

Some of the most significant architectural features of British communities, the parsonage has provided the central hub for local towns and villages for hundreds of years this is the story of their evolution, architecture and changing occupants.

An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria.

Some of the most significant architectural features of British communities, the parsonage has provided the central hub for local towns and villages for hundreds of years this is the story of their evolution, architecture and changing occupants.

Timber-framed buildings are a distinctive and treasured part of Britain's heritage, with such noteworthy examples as Little Moreton Hall, Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Lavenham Guildhall.

The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards.

Chinoiserie, a decorative style inspired by the art of the Far East, gripped Britain from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.

Designed to dominate the surrounding area, to house powerful garrisons, offer sumptuous quarters for local nobility, and to discourage and repel enemy attacks, castles dominated England and Wales for more than half a millennium.

Victorian pumping stations are colourful cathedrals of utility.

An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria.

The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards.

Chinoiserie, a decorative style inspired by the art of the Far East, gripped Britain from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.

The rapid westward expansion of the United States in the early twentieth century set the stage for a new industry: mail-order homes.

Timber-framed buildings are a distinctive and treasured part of Britain's heritage, with such noteworthy examples as Little Moreton Hall, Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Lavenham Guildhall.

Master Carver Grinling Gibbons (1648 1721) is famous for his breathtakingly delicate, intricate and realistic carvings, both in wood and stone.

Designed to dominate the surrounding area, to house powerful garrisons, offer sumptuous quarters for local nobility, and to discourage and repel enemy attacks, castles dominated England and Wales for more than half a millennium.

From the Houses of Parliament to the Midland Hotel at St Pancras and Strawberry Hill House, Gothic Revival buildings are some of the most distinctive structures found in Britain.

A beautifully illustrated guide to the world of Victorian stained glass and its manufacturers and designers.

Victorian pumping stations are colourful cathedrals of utility.

From the Houses of Parliament to the Midland Hotel at St Pancras and Strawberry Hill House, Gothic Revival buildings are some of the most distinctive structures found in Britain.

Master Carver Grinling Gibbons (1648 1721) is famous for his breathtakingly delicate, intricate and realistic carvings, both in wood and stone.

Este libro, el primero de mi colección "Metodologías y Procedimientos de la arquitectura".

En nuestro entorno, y de forma exacerbada durante las ultimas decadas en el campo de la arquitectura, ha primado la accion sobre la reflexion.

Las voces de la pantalla son las que se hacen oir desde el punto en que se mira.

En la nueva forma cultural que comienza a consolidarse (mas orientada a las individualidades que a comportamientos masivos), el jean tiene el desafio de evolucionar para permanecer.

Habitar en la era del inconsciente es un libro ilustrado sobre bioarquitectura, ecología, domesticidad, placer, consciencia y otras muchas cosas relacionadas con el habitar.

La idea de encarar este trabajo de investigación parte precisamente de una de las funciones primarias de la vestimenta que es la de cubrirse.

Nos hemos propuesto reflexionar acerca de la ciudad utilizando la logica del periscopio, un instrumento concebido para poder ver aquello que por causa de un obstaculo nos es vedado, logrando tal proeza a traves de un simple juego de espejos que refleja imagenes de manera de hacernoslas visibles.

Hoy en día, las Tesis de Maestría son un instituto universitario global, altamente protocolizado en sus características y condiciones de producción y evaluación y, por ello mismo, un factor curricular determinante para las oportunidades de los posgraduados en general, los investigadores y las instituciones en las que estos desarrollan su actividad.

La arquitectura es un delirio de poder, un desvario del deseo de organizar la vida de los otros, que se vincula a la produccion industrial-mercantil y a la justificacion posterior de su pertinencia.

El presente libro cumple con la aspiracion de un grupo de docentes que dicta cursos de Historia del Arte en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst.

"En este libro encontrará un conjunto de artículos, discusiones y reflexiones referidas a diversas cuestiones vinculadas con el diseño y los medios audiovisuales.

Estamos en el año dos mil quince.

Un sistema se define, según Christopher Alexander, a partir de considerar las partes que lo componen, la relación entre estas partes y el comportamiento al que se enfoca.

Ein Buch über Berlin, als gäbe es nicht genug.

Una de las causas de la critica situacion sanitaria en las areas metropolitanas de America Latina durante la pandemia de COVID-19 fue el deficit en la provision de servicios urbanos basicos como agua, saneamiento, transporte y energia.

El espacio aún no es considerado como parte del currículum en la escuela siendo, sin embargo, parte de un currículum oculto, silencioso e invisible.

Se presenta un recorrido por las posibles medidas a implementar en materia de eficiencia energetica y energias renovables en el sector residencial.

Una de las cosas más importantes de este libro es que propone una estructura abierta de trabajo, un mecanismo de análisis que admite la investigación colectiva o individual, la aplicación académica o la pura especulación intelectual.

For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them.