This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality.
The architect, historian and critic Peter Blundell Jones (1949-2016) considered architecture as an expansive field within the arts and humanities and social sciences that included landscape and urban studies.
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.
IDEC Book of the YearIn a world where life is increasingly defined by the spaces we inhabit, understanding interiors is essential to understanding ourselves.
IDEC Book of the YearIn a world where life is increasingly defined by the spaces we inhabit, understanding interiors is essential to understanding ourselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency.
Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century.
A NEW MANIFOLD, the inaugural issue of SAC JOURNAL, addres- ses the increased specialisation and possible fragmentation of ex- pertise within architecture.
This book offers a vision of the London Underground written in the form of a ficto-historical narrative, which combines history and fiction in the creation of a set of theoretical propositions for London's subterranean transportation network.
GARDEN STATE - Cinematic Space and Choreographic Timeis the third issue of the SAC JOURNAL and explores the garden as a utopia wherein time and space may be thought of in archi- tectural terms yet not easily deciphered against architecture's traditions and practices.
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.
Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture.
This book offers a vision of the London Underground written in the form of a ficto-historical narrative, which combines history and fiction in the creation of a set of theoretical propositions for London's subterranean transportation network.
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.
This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives from architecture, ethnography, and human-computer interaction (HCI).
This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.
Este libro presenta la construcción de la arquitectura moderna me- xicana mediante un enfoque basado en cinco estructuras de poder: la académica, la económica y política, la de estatus social, la de género y la poscolonial.
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life.
Los ensayos que conforman este libro, se concentran en el problema de la experiencia de la arquitectura en el proyecto y el objeto arquitectónico y constituyen un esfuerzo por establecer un diálogo significativo entre la reflexión teórica y la práctica de la arquitectura mediante la confluencia de diferentes disciplinas y áreas de conocimiento, la Historiografía, la Teoría y la Crítica de la Arquitectura como también la Estética, la Filosofía y la Arquitectura.
This book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A.
CULINARY LESSONS - The Space of Food is based on a series of events, Culinary Lessons, which were hosted by the Stadelschule Architecture Class and which engaged with the relation between food, art and architecture.
