Across eight cases studies of patrons spanning the 18th to the 21st century, this assesses the ways that Louis XIVs Palace of Versailles has continued to shape the aesthetics of cultural capital since his death. The book demonstrates how the extrav...Lasīt vairāk
A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present....Lasīt vairāk
The artistic potential modern, urban housing (Neubau) offered to writers and directors in East Germany from the 1960s to 1980s remains underexplored. Neubau Atmospheres seeks to bridge that gap by providing an incisive analysis of East...Lasīt vairāk
This book, by an architect and a sociologist, addresses the disconnect between the design of the built environment and social life and lays out a pathway for interdisciplinary engagement.Through this scholarly collaboration, the authors cre...Lasīt vairāk
This book, by an architect and a sociologist, addresses the disconnect between the design of the built environment and social life and lays out a pathway for interdisciplinary engagement. Through this scholarly collaboration, the authors create a ne...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, from the 1935 to the 1975, exploring how it was shaped by liturgical changes, social shifts, and artistic influences. It investigates the theoretical foundations of moder...Lasīt vairāk
This volume focuses on socio-spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. This volume...Lasīt vairāk
Nasser Rabbat, Deen Sharp, Hashim Sarkis, Pascal Menoret, Deen Sharp, Noura Wahby
Sērija : Middle East Urban Studies
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649034137)
Reconstruction as Violence delves into the complex interplay of post-conflict reconstruction in Syria, challenging the traditionally held dichotomy between the end of violence and the commencement of rebuilding. The authors, architects, urbanists, g...Lasīt vairāk
Diversity in Architecture: Intersectionality, Affective Politics, and Creating Change explores diversity in architecture through an intersectional lens. It examines how overlapping individual identities, cultural ideologies, and institution...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262049115)
A study of the US architect Albert Kahn, architect of the Ford motor company, and one that combines a scholarly history and interpretation with a set of remarkable archival images-- A study of Albert Kahn Incorporatedthe architecture fi...Lasīt vairāk
Explores the evolving architecture industry Provides a fascinating insight into pro bono architecture in a community setting Six featured projects were selected to highlight the positive contributions to society in a variety of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813952970)
The material legacies of slavery across the Atlantic world Atlantic slavery has bequeathed architectural legacies from the plantation ruins that fill the valleys of Cuba to the servants quarters of middle-class apartment housing i...Lasīt vairāk
Offers a framework for rethinking what “normal” architectural practice means. This book brings together five transformative architectural practices from around the globe to critique the assumptions, working methods, and emb...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813952987)
This book examines the architectural legacies of Atlantic slavery-- The material legacies of slavery across the Atlantic world Atlantic slavery has bequeathed architectural legacies from the plantation ruins that fill the...Lasīt vairāk
This volume celebrates the contributions and impact of our mentor, colleague, and friend, James C. Wright, on the field of Aegean Bronze archaeology in recognition of his retirement from Bryn Mawr College. The title and thematic orientation reflects...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954479)
With The Row House in Washington, DC, the architectural historian and preservationist Alison Hoagland turns the lucid prose style and keen analytical skill that characterize all her scholarship to the subject of the Washington row hous...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History features twenty-nine chapters written by leading architectural historians that define and shape future research, practice, and education....Lasīt vairāk
Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as being of an orderly and diligent position and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Du...Lasīt vairāk
Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concept...Lasīt vairāk
This volume emphasizes the significance of Professor Amos Rapoports lifelong scholarship. Scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced unde...Lasīt vairāk
Emotions and Architecture explores architecture as a medium to arouse or conceal emotions, to build consensus through shared values, or to reconnect the urban community to its alleged ancestry. Emotions and Architecture: F...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009345170)
Examines how Delhis Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as spaces for tourism, leisure, and intellectual contemp...Lasīt vairāk
How to create healthier, sustainable, and resilient communities using place-based design strategies.In a world where real estate development often overlooks the critical link between our built environment and public health, architect...Lasīt vairāk
Lydia Mattice Brandt, Michael J. Chiarappa, Margaret Grubiak
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517919115)
Buildings & Landscapes examines the built world that most people experience every dayhouses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls. Strongly based on fieldwork and archival research that v...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focusing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capitals financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth c...Lasīt vairāk
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives. It uses simultaneous narrat...Lasīt vairāk
