This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi colonial power interaction and cross cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern China.
This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi colonial power interaction and cross cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern China.
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde takes a terminological, sociological, and semiological approach that develops by tracing the 'avant-garde' in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process analysis, interpreting it.
Institution Architecture: Building the Avant-Garde takes a terminological, sociological, and semiological approach that develops by tracing the 'avant-garde' in a century span of literatures for a textual analysis, unpacking the text, and in a process analysis, interpreting it.
The sheer computing power of modern information technology is changing the face of research not just in science, technology and mathematics, but in humanities and cultural studies too.
(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination of both common and marginalised precedents.
(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination of both common and marginalised precedents.
This book is an attempt to comprehend the reasons for modernity in the Balkans, beginning with the famous Journey to the East undertaken by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in 1911; a journey during which the future Le Corbusier was the first to appreciate the originality of the region's architecture.
Historic littoral cities and sites of Southeast Asia that grew along the coast, seascapes, and the confluence of rivers as evolvements from Indigenous settlements linked the dynamism of trade and confluence of cultures, have defied categorization and characterization.
Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately - and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today.
Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately - and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today.
This book is an attempt to comprehend the reasons for modernity in the Balkans, beginning with the famous Journey to the East undertaken by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in 1911; a journey during which the future Le Corbusier was the first to appreciate the originality of the region's architecture.
Historic littoral cities and sites of Southeast Asia that grew along the coast, seascapes, and the confluence of rivers as evolvements from Indigenous settlements linked the dynamism of trade and confluence of cultures, have defied categorization and characterization.
This book explores how innovative shading design improves psychological comfort in synaptic spaces – those dynamic and transitional built environments where people connect, engage, and interact.
This book explores how innovative shading design improves psychological comfort in synaptic spaces – those dynamic and transitional built environments where people connect, engage, and interact.
1908 konnte das von dem Jugendstilarchitekten Joseph Maria Olbrich erbaute Ausstellungsgebaude der Darmstadter Kunstlerkolonie auf der Mathildenhohe eingeweiht werden.
Zivilgesellschaftliche Proteste gegen Abriss und Neubau beforderten im Wien der 1970er Jahre einen Paradigmenwechsel und behutsamen Umgang mit den historischen Vierteln der Stadt.
As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction.
As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction.
