A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American ModernismIn the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily.
A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American ModernismIn the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily.
Originally published in 1994, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Architecture, Ritual Practice and Co-determination in the Swedish Office is a case study of Swedish office buildings and examines how they have been influenced by spatial aspects of traditional culture in Scandinavia.
Tief unter den Straßen von Paris, verborgen vor den Blicken der hektischen Metropole, erstreckt sich ein Labyrinth, das seit Jahrhunderten Zeugnis von der engen Verknüpfung von Geschichte, Geologie und Kultur ablegt: die Pariser Katakomben.
First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors which have made town planning one of the normal functions of government.
Se trata de las trayectorias de vida de tres emblematicos y singulares arquitectos: Fernando Castillo Velasco, Mario Perez de Arce y Hector Valdes Phillips, los tres Premios Nacionales de Arquitectura.
In dieser sozialhistorischen Monographie werden die beiden Theologen Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) und Martin Rade (1857–1940) in einer transatlantischen Gegenüberstellung miteinander verglichen, wobei ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf die politisch-soziale Dimension ihres Denkens und ihrer Arbeit gelegt wird.
La arquitectura doméstica cartagenera de los períodos colonial y republicano ha sido objeto de estudios que, separadamente, han mostrado sus características particulares.
The Central Synagogue of Sofia was built between 1905 and 1909 as a highly visible and monumental structure in the social, commercial, and religious center of the Bulgarian capital.
In the 21st century, the word detail appears constantly in discussions of building, and we use it in many different ways-yet just over 250 years ago, detail meant nothing at all particular to the work of architects, engineers, or builders.
The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today.
Von frühen modernistischen Designs wie der Typentankstelle von Hans Poelzig, den Reichsautobahn-Normentankstellen der Stuttgarter Schule bis zu Lothar Götz’ modularen Nachkriegstypenbauten als Wegbereiter späterer standardisierter Corporate Designs: Seit den 1920er Jahren prägen Tankstellen unsere Umgebung.
Architecture and Cultural Continuity explores a dynamic way of viewing architecture arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of community and belonging, space, ritual, and setting.
Seit Jahrhunderten erhebt sich Notre Dame de Paris majestätisch über die Dächer der Stadt und prägt das Herz und die Seele von Paris wie kein anderes Bauwerk.
Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specificity, cultural conquest, and cultural hybridisation over millennia.
Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser, ich freue mich, Ihnen nach nunmehr zwei Jahren der Recherche und Vorarbeit mein neues Buch über die japanische Handwerkskunst vorstellen zu können.
This book presents a critical vision of the role of architecture and design in constantly changing cities, territories and societies from a Latin American perspective.
The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
From the Introduction: Consider these two places: Walking into Green Acres, you immediately sense that you have entered an oasis-traffic noise left behind, negative urban distractions out of sight, children playing and running on the grass, adults puttering on plant-filled balconies.
Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, building projects and architectural icons played an important role in the self-portrayal of the competing systems.
The digital humanities intensify the cooperation between the science disciplines in terms of working tools, working methods, and working organization, and in terms of formulating research strategies and scientific objectives.
Noch wird in der wissenschaftlichen und öffentlichen Beschäftigung mit dem Islam unterschieden zwischen unscheinbaren "Hinterhofmoscheen" und den sichtbaren "Moscheeneubauten".
Hannes Meyer hat als zweiter Bauhausdirektor die von Walter Gropius und den frühen Meistern begründete Bauhauspädagogik wesentlich verändert und neu konzipiert: Das Prinzip „Volksbedarf statt Luxusbedarf“ löste das in die Krise geratene Konzept „Kunst und Technik – eine neue Einheit“ von 1923 ab.
Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, building projects and architectural icons played an important role in the self-portrayal of the competing systems.
Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments-unique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreographers.
