In achtzehn Studien beschreiben die VerfasserInnen die Art des Redens sowie die Formen der bildlichen Mitteilungen über die Architektur und analysieren so die kommunikativen Bedingungen der Architekturtheorie.
Structures for Architects: Planning, Analysis and Design explains the basics of structural systems to help architects conceive the structural form and analyze and design in a comprehensive manner.
Structures for Architects: Planning, Analysis and Design explains the basics of structural systems to help architects conceive the structural form and analyze and design in a comprehensive manner.
Im Jahr 2018 feiert Bayern das hundertjährige Bestehen seines Freistaats; Zeit, sich an die Münchner Räterepublik und die sozialistischen Ursprünge dieses Landes zu erinnern; Zeit, die konservativen wie auch die emanzipatorischen Momente des Freistaates zu rekapitulieren; Zeit auch, die Raum- und Architekturproduktion Bayerns und seiner Hauptstadt München genauer unter die Lupe zu nehmen.
"In a flood of superficial media, the narrow focus of Stephan Trüby's History of the Corridor – one of the inspirations for our Elements of Architecture exhibition in Venice 2014 – reveals unsuspected depths.
Juhani Pallasmaa, arquitecto y teórico de la arquitectura de gran reconocimiento inter¬nacional, se dirige a estudiantes y jóvenes arquitectos para compartir con ellos sus pensamientos acerca del propósito de la arquitectura y su relación con otros ámbitos culturales.
A neuroscientist's bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our timebrain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected.
This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), written by one of Aalto's Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934-1986).
This book examines the role that time plays in the life of buildings, adopting a comparative study of this influence between European and Chinese traditions.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the architectural evolution of China from antiquity to the early modern, modern, and contemporary ages.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the architectural evolution of China from antiquity to the early modern, modern, and contemporary ages.
In der gegenwärtigen philosophischen und theologischen Diskussion wird die Möglichkeit schlüssiger Argumente für die Existenz Gottes in der Regel mit Verweis auf Hume oder Kant zurückgewiesen.
Entre los resultados del espejismo del progreso, sobresalen el carácter cada día más arduo de la "lucha por la supervivencia", la generalización del sentimiento de fracaso y frustración en el espíritu reflexivo, la formación de grupos transnacionales de poder más fuertes que el Estado, la convicción de que el presente es extremadamente frágil y transitorio y que está sujeto a fuerzas capaces de destruirlo, igual que a la vida misma.
In der gegenwärtigen philosophischen und theologischen Diskussion wird die Möglichkeit schlüssiger Argumente für die Existenz Gottes in der Regel mit Verweis auf Hume oder Kant zurückgewiesen.
Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today.
Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "e;Promethean"e; tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.
In this enthralling book, Ben Alderson-Day explores one of the most curious experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing sense that someone or something is there when we are alone - the feeling of an unseen presence.
A pesar de los avances de la neurociencia y de las ciencias cognitivas en los últimos cincuenta años, el estudio de la percepción abarca un campo en el que todavía no se dispone de una teoría unificada desde la cual se pueda dar cuenta de todos los fenómenos y procesos involucrados.
Desde las primeras muestras de Arquitectura, ya en la Prehistoria, la luz siempre ha sido la piedra angular en torno a la cual todo lo construido se ha articulado.
Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century.
