Through Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow, established experts, designers, and newer scholars from the world of 'Islamic architecture', broadly conceived, consider the field's changing nature and continued relevance in our rapidly globalizing context.
Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism.
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.
This book develops new and innovative methods for understanding the cultural significance of places such as the World Heritage listed Sydney Opera House.
Megalopolis con condiciones de vida extremadamente dificiles para una parte significativa de la poblacion exigen formas de abordaje de lo fisico, lo social, lo ecologico, los aspectos de seguridad ciudadana y las cuestiones del sujeto contemporaneo, de manera conjunta y articulada, colocando en el centro de las atenciones las relaciones entre las partes formales e informales del tejido urbano.
Originally published in 1995, this book unravels the history of the 'temporary bungalow' and shows that perhaps it was more a question of providing a new peace-time product for factories than a means of providing accommodation for the homeless.
Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colonialism remain embedded within the urban fabric of many European capitals.
This volume explores the concept of "e;spatial transparency"e;; a form of spatial continuity that articulates depth through permeable, layered, or porous three-dimensional organizations where interstitial light is present.
The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture challenges the modern practice of sealing up and mechanically cooling public scaled buildings in whichever climate and environment they are located.
The pivotal position of the Oxford region in the geological and therefore building history of England is of fundamental importance to the study of traditional construction.
After three years of education, architecture students have to start out on their first year of practical training as the initial step in a career in the professional world--all too often without enough clear advice to make sure that their first step is in the right direction.
Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment.
From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the modern increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above.
In this fully illustrated ebook, TV's Dan Snow brings to life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience the clashes up close.
Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Capriccio.
Riverscapes are the main arteries of the world's largest cities, and have, for millennia, been the lifeblood of the urban communities that have developed around them.
Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism.
Die gotische Architektur fasziniert seit Jahrhunderten mit ihren majestätischen Kathedralen, filigranen Gewölben und den spektakulären Glasfenstern, durch die das Licht in faszinierenden Farben spielt.
Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment.
The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran explores the evolution of architectural pedagogy during two significant socio-political upheavals in Iran: The White Revolution (1963) and the Islamic Revolution (1979).
Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years-in German architectural culture and society, the transnational Progressive reform movement, Feminist discourse, and International Modernism-and its continued relevance.
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years.
The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses and geometric analyses attempting to explain its form and meaning.
This anthology honors Lawrence Nees' expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Delaware.
The fourth in a series that documents architectural conservation in different parts of the world, Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice addresses cultural heritage protection in a region which comprises one third of the Earth's surface.
