The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research.
WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.
Cet ouvrage est le reflet des débats qui ont animé la rencontre "Villes, voyages, voyageurs ; regards sur l'Autre et l'ailleurs", organisée dans le cadre de la première Biennale de la ville et du voyage qui s'est déroulée à Villeurbanne.
This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary examination of the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only living longer but taking much longer to die-often in great pain and suffering.
Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas.
The key principles of designing a pleasant, comfortable and healthy eco-home, with a foreword written by HRH The Prince of Wales, now King Charles III.
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.
A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation PrizeTranslated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama.
The International Symposium on Energy Management and Sustainability (ISEMAS) is a multi-disciplinary symposium that presents research on current issues in energy efficiency, social awareness, and global climate change.
The International Symposium on Energy Management and Sustainability (ISEMAS) is a multi-disciplinary symposium that presents research on current issues in energy efficiency, social awareness, and global climate change.
Si l'on considère le vaste champ du design comme un lieu propice aux contestations et aux élaborations d'utopies contradictoires, on peut supposer que ce dernier participe à la définition politique du territoire.
State Oddities takes a different kind of look at the American nation, spotlighting the fun foibles, peculiarities, and twists in each of the 50 states that are (mostly) united under the Stars and Stripes.
The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts.
It was long felt that an English edition on the architecture of Akrotiri, dealing not only with the building technology, but also with issues of typology, form, and function, would be welcomed.
The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920 2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture.
This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity.
David Lowenthal was well known for his historical and geographical contribution to conservation and environmental thinking, his understanding and appreciation of landscape, and his critical public and scholarly contribution to heritage debates as a founder of heritage studies.
Untethered Small-Scale Robots for Biomedical Applications introduces the principle, design, fabrication and application of small-scale robots for biomedical applications.
This book updates knowledge about self-injurious behaviors for suicidal purposes concerning frequency, possibly biological, psychological, social, cultural, and political causes; that is, it approaches suicide from abroad non-reductive vision and considers the phenomenon's complexity.
The proceedings of the International Conference on Automation and Computation 2022 (AUTOCOM-22) consist of complete research articles that were presented at the conference.
La tecnología lo está cambiando todo de un modo mucho más rápido de lo que podemos imaginar y con seguridad que impactará en todas las áreas y profesiones ayudando a hacer casi todo mejor, más rápido y más barato.
Le présent livre expose les étapes d'une action collective qui a vu le jour en 1955, souhaitant proposer des solutions aux victimes de la crise du logement.
The goal of this book is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) and early Neopalatial periods (Middle Minoan III).
Liverpool grew rapidly in the Georgian period as it was a major port for Atlantic trade, rivalling any other city in the UK outside London in terms of prosperity and population.
A Hands-On Course in Sensors Using the Arduino and Raspberry Pi is the first book to give a practical and wide-ranging account of how to interface sensors and actuators with micro-controllers, Raspberry Pi and other control systems.
The short lived Tulip Era breathed a new life into Ottoman social life and novel elements of art, architecture and new spaces of leisure and entertainment that both men and women could participate and enjoy emerged during the early 18th century.
As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius's activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founder's contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934 and 1937.
Against a backdrop of environmental and societal concerns, best captured by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this book brings together the leading voices on Mosque architecture to make a case for its role as a purveyor of culture, heritage, and sustainability in the modern world.
The proceedings of the International Conference on Automation and Computation 2022 (AUTOCOM-22) consist of complete research articles that were presented at the conference.
Against a backdrop of environmental and societal concerns, best captured by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this book brings together the leading voices on Mosque architecture to make a case for its role as a purveyor of culture, heritage, and sustainability in the modern world.
This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.
WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.
Dans le droit fil des théories issues de la Charte d'Athènes, la naissance des unités d'habitation selon Le Corbusier a donné lieu à 5 expériences uniques au monde, dont 4 en France entre 1952 et 1968.
Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas.
