French-American interrelationships in the areas of design and creative thinking have been under-acknowledged. It is normally asserted that French architects looked to North America for technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in th...Lasīt vairāk
Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the coven...Lasīt vairāk
The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the...Lasīt vairāk
Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporar...Lasīt vairāk
Historians and critics of Adolf Loos have repeatedly noted the influence that Karl Friedrich Schinkel had on the Austrian architect and, indeed, Loos himself made a direct reference to the importance of the German architect for the development...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China. ...Lasīt vairāk
Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced Le Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier. Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideo...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shap...Lasīt vairāk
Architecture as Civil Commitment analyzes the many ways in which Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chos...Lasīt vairāk
From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nine...Lasīt vairāk
Le Corbusier wrote his first book-length treatise, La Construction des villes , in the early years of the C20th. This remarkable work, dealing with questions of aesthetic urbanism, shows Le Corbusiers intellectual influences in the field of urbanism...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China. It questions whether the fusion of international influences with the local Chinese design vocabular...Lasīt vairāk
This book is a scholarly and poetic study on the nature of surfaces and addresses their significance in our understanding and experience of place....Lasīt vairāk
In 1944 Le Corbusier predicted the coming of a redemptive synthesis of the arts. This book is a scholarly introduction in English to overlooked debates on modernism, abstraction and the synthesis of the arts in mid-twentieth century France....Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shap...Lasīt vairāk
Lucio Costa played a leading role played within some of the most outstanding products of the modernist generation in Brazil and is often recognized as father of Brazilian modernism, influencing his younger and more internationally celebrated colleagu...Lasīt vairāk
This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene the proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the Earth system. It charts an environmental history of curfews, admonitions and alarms about dwelling...Lasīt vairāk
In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in scale and grandeur, and which became destinations on the Grand Tour. From the Middle Ages, the dead had been buried in churches and urban graveyards bu...Lasīt vairāk
Douglas Burrage Snelling (191685) was one of Britains significant emigré architects and designers. Born in Kent and educated in New Zealand, he became one of Australias leading mid-century architects, of luxury residences and commercial buildings, a...Lasīt vairāk
Examining discomforts physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment. By attending to a series...Lasīt vairāk
